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Discord bot hosting
Host your Discord bot where the ping is already on your side.
Deploy your bot in Ashburn, Virginia, close to the infrastructure Discord itself depends on, and let automatic recovery and live metrics keep it online around the clock.
Built for bots that need to stay online and responsive
Ashburn, VA
data-center region built for low-latency delivery
99.99%
uptime target
Auto restart
on crash or memory limit
15 ms
avg ping towards Discord
Built to stay connected
Keep your bot online, responsive, and easy to operate.
Run your bot close to Discord's own infrastructure, recover automatically from crashes, and watch it with the same tools used for production applications.
Explore capabilitiesHost close to Discord's gateway
Shard Cloud's data center sits in Ashburn, Virginia — one of the internet's biggest interconnection hubs, and near the infrastructure Discord itself relies on — keeping the network hop between your bot and Discord's servers as short as it gets.
Recover from crashes automatically
Health monitoring restarts a crashed process, a memory-limit failure, or a failed health check, with a circuit breaker after repeated attempts.
Watch memory, CPU, and traffic live
Follow resource and network usage in real time, and set alerts before resource pressure turns into downtime.
Built for Discord bots
Everything a bot needs to stay online.
Deploy in the runtime your bot is written in, keep it close to Discord's infrastructure, and recover automatically when something goes wrong.
Ashburn, Virginia region
Run your bot from a data center built for low-latency delivery, minimizing the distance between your bot and Discord's own servers.
VMs for bots that need full control
Give your bot a full Linux VM with SSH root access when it needs full root control or to run native binaries or background workers alongside it — every application already persists files under /app with a free 10 GB disk.
Automatic recovery
Continuous health monitoring restarts crashed processes so your bot comes back online without you watching it.
Live metrics and alerts
Track memory, CPU, and network usage, follow live logs to see what a command is doing, and get notified before a resource limit takes your bot offline.
Progressive setup
From a bot token to a bot that's always online.
Connect your source, deploy near Discord's own infrastructure, and let health monitoring handle the rest.
Get started01
Connect your source
Push your bot's code from GitHub or upload a ZIP or RAR archive, in the runtime it's already written in.
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Deploy in Ashburn, Virginia
Your bot runs in a data-center region built for low-latency delivery, close to the infrastructure Discord depends on.
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Let it run 24/7
Auto-restart, live metrics, and alerts keep your bot online without manual intervention.
From connection to the first decision, in one flow.
Frequently asked questions
How this resource works in practice.
Ashburn is one of the largest internet interconnection hubs in the world, and it sits close to infrastructure many major platforms — Discord included — run on. Hosting your bot there keeps the network path between your bot and Discord's gateway short, which shows up as lower, steadier latency on every command.
Ready to move forward
Give your Discord bot a home built for uptime.
Deploy close to Discord's infrastructure and let automatic recovery keep it online.
Guided setup with no commitment
Ashburn, Virginia region
Minimize the network hop between your bot and Discord.
Automatic recovery
Crashed processes restart on their own, with a circuit breaker after repeated failures.
Deploy your bot
Connect your source and choose the runtime it's written in.
Connected ecosystem
Connects to the workflow your team already uses
GitHub
Connect repositories and keep every release linked to its source code.
Docker
Ship your own images with a consistent process across environments.
PostgreSQL
Connect data and applications without losing operational service context.
Shard Edge
Bring caching, TLS, and global delivery closer to your users.
Shard AI
Investigate signals and execute actions with workspace context and approval.
OpenTelemetry
Connect standardized signals to expand visibility whenever needed.
Source, data, delivery, and automation stay connected so your team can operate without switching context.
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Launch your first application with the Core plan, then keep deployment, operations, and connected resources in one place.
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