Discord Bot Hosting

Mamba Host’s Discord bot hosting provides production-grade infrastructure for moderation suites, music bots, automation agents, and AI-powered assistants. Every container runs on Dell PowerEdge R630 hardware (dual Intel E5-2680v4, 128 GB RAM, NVMe storage) behind 99.9% uptime targets, Cloudflare-backed DDoS mitigation, and auto-restart orchestration.

Platform Overview

• Runtimes: Node.js 18/20 and Python 3.11 with full support for Discord.js, Eris, Oceanic, discord.py, Nextcord, Py-cord, Disnake, Hikari, and custom frameworks.
• Provisioning: Containers boot in under two minutes through https://panel.mambahost.com and inherit our standard monitoring + backup policies.
• Access: SFTP/FTP, web file manager, live console streaming, package managers (npm/pip), and an encrypted environment-variable editor for tokens/secrets.
• Automation: Scheduler for cron-style restarts or script execution, Netlify/n8n/webhook integrations, optional MySQL databases, and status webhooks for CI/CD events.
• Observability: Real-time CPU/RAM graphs, auto-restart history, downloadable logs, and incident alerts mirrored to https://status.mambahost.com.

Architecture & Data Flow

1. Gateway connection: Your bot container establishes a TLS tunnel to Discord’s gateway using intents you configure.
2. Runtime cluster: Processes run inside isolated Docker containers on NVMe-backed nodes; per-plan CPU and RAM limits prevent noisy neighbors.
3. Persistence layer: SQLite ships by default; Pro/Premium plans can request managed MySQL with phpMyAdmin for inventories, economy, or analytics data.
4. Secret management: Tokens, API keys, and webhooks live inside the environment editor (AES-256 encrypted at rest) and are injected as process.env/os.getenv.
5. Resilience loop: A watchdog monitors processes, restarting within seconds if exit codes are non-zero, and emits events to the panel + optional Discord alerts.

Plans & Capacity Guidelines

Plan data is centralized in src/games/game-server-products.ts, ensuring marketing pages and docs stay in sync.

Plan	Monthly Price	RAM	vCPU	Storage	Suggested Use Cases
Starter	$1.99	512 MB	0.25	5 GB NVMe	Lightweight moderation utilities, webhook relays, slash-command helpers
Pro	$5.49	1 GB	0.5	10 GB NVMe	Music/voice bots, multi-module Discord.js apps, sharded deployments up to 2 shards
Premium	$9.49	2 GB	1.0	20 GB NVMe	AI-backed bots, ML inference, multiple concurrent bots, heavy REST traffic

When to scale: increase tiers once sustained RAM exceeds 75%, audio transcoding pegs CPU over 70%, or you need additions like managed MySQL, background workers, or GPU-assisted inference (premium beta).

Feature Matrix

Capability	Starter	Pro	Premium
Auto-Restart & Watchdog	✅	✅	✅
Environment Variable Vault	✅	✅	✅
Scheduled Tasks	✅ (hourly)	✅ (minutely)	✅ (minutely + chained)
MySQL Database	Optional Add-on	✅ Included on request	✅ Included (multiple)
SSH / SFTP Access	✅	✅	✅
Multiple Bot Processes	Manual	Supported (Supervisor)	Fully supported with PM2/multiprocess
Priority Support SLA	Community	8-hour target	2-hour target

Security Best Practices

1. Rotate tokens after each major deployment; store them only via the panel’s env editor.
2. Least privilege your bot by enabling only required gateway intents in the Discord Dev Portal.
3. Dependency scanning: run npm audit / pip-audit locally before uploading; malicious packages are the top source of bot compromises.
4. Webhooks & API keys: never commit secrets to repos; use env vars for Stripe, OpenAI, or proprietary endpoints.
5. TLS enforcement: outbound requests leave through hardened egress; inbound management traffic is HTTPS-only with HSTS on the panel.

Performance Patterns

• Shard management: use Discord.js’ ShardingManager or Disnake’s AutoShardedBot on Pro/Premium tiers; keep shard counts aligned with guild numbers to avoid unnecessary RAM usage.
• Voice workloads: music bots rely on FFmpeg—open a ticket if you need system-level codecs or libsodium for sodium-native voice encryption.
• Caching strategy: shift large caches to Redis/Upstash via environment variables if your command handlers rely on heavy lookups.
• Async jobs: schedule queue processors or cron-style scripts in the panel scheduler instead of busy-wait loops inside the main process.

Operational Playbooks

• Moderation suites: combine auto-mod filters, logging channels, and timed punishments with MySQL persistence for long-term history.
• Creator automation: integrate with Creator Labs deployments to sync Twitch events, YouTube uploads, or Netlify form submissions straight into Discord.
• Economy/RPG bots: use managed MySQL plus scheduled backups; set up daily snapshots via the panel to avoid data loss during big updates.
• AI copilots: run inference through external APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic) or host lightweight models; throttle requests and leverage rate-limiters to stay under Discord’s interaction deadlines.

Compliance & Reliability

• Data residency: nodes currently operate out of Texas (USA). Multi-region failover is on the roadmap; contact support for custom placement.
• Backups: environment variables, file systems, and MySQL dumps can be snapshotted nightly (opt-in). Retention defaults to 7 days.
• Incident response: outages and maintenance events publish to https://status.mambahost.com and optionally to your Discord via webhook.
• Access control: invite teammates into the panel with scoped permissions (view logs, deploy, manage billing).

Quick Links

• Deployment Guide – Upload workflows, dependency installs, env setup, and CI tips.
• Operations & Scaling – Monitoring, sharding, backups, and cost management.
• Troubleshooting & Runbooks – Common errors, rate limits, crash loops.
• src/games/game-server-products.ts – Plan definitions powering marketing + docs.
• Support: support@mambahost.com or Discord https://discord.gg/mambahost