About Botlark

Why we built it

Free hosting has a reputation, and it is mostly deserved. The usual version hands you a crippled container, hides the console, throttles you the moment anyone uses your bot, and waits for you to give up and pay. The free tier is not a product in its own right. It is a funnel.

We wanted the other thing: a free tier that is genuinely usable, built the way the paid kind is built. You get a real control panel, a live console, a file manager, backups, databases and DDoS protection. The same machinery a paying customer would get, because running two qualities of platform is more work than running one good one.

How it works

Three steps, and the longest one is deciding what to build.

1. 1

   Sign in with your email

   We send a magic link. There is no password to set, no card to enter, and nothing to cancel later.

2. 2

   Pick a runtime or a project

   Node.js, Python, Java, Bun, Go, Rust, or a ready-made project from the Software Library.

3. 3

   Deploy, then keep it alive with points

   Your server is provisioned automatically and you are live in about a minute. Renew it with points you earn rather than money.

How we keep it free

Someone pays for the servers. Being straight about who is the least we owe you.

Points are the part people ask about most. You earn them by showing up: a daily check-in, a referral, running Botlark Desktop. You spend them renewing your server or adding resources. An active project stays online indefinitely without anyone paying, and an abandoned one eventually frees its slot for someone who will use it.

What you can run

Pick a runtime and deploy. Node.js, Python, Java, Bun, Go and Rust are all one click, and the Software Library adds ready-made open source projects that deploy themselves.

• Discord bots and application backends
• Web apps, APIs and background workers
• One-click deploys from the Software Library
• Live console, file manager and backups
• Databases and a real control panel, built in
• DDoS protection and a public status page

Technologies powering Botlark

No mystery box. Botlark runs on the same stack and tooling a paying platform would pick, and it is worth saying out loud because free services usually cut corners here first: a shared panel, a single box, someone's spare laptop.

The panel is our own fork of Pelican, and the whole thing is containerised and deployed from CI.

Who runs it

Botlark is operated by Botlark Demo, Demo address, which is responsible for the service and for the data it holds about you.

You can export everything we hold about you, or delete your account outright, from your account settings. No email to support, no waiting.

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