OpenClaw Hosting

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Run a Telegram bot on Hostinger with OpenClaw

This guide shows you how to deploy a Telegram bot on Hostinger using OpenClaw. Hostinger KVM VPS handles Telegram polling and OpenClaw memory cheaply, which makes it the right pairing for this specific workload. Hardware, install, integration and monthly cost are covered below.

Why Hostinger for a Telegram bot?

Hostinger KVM VPS handles Telegram polling and OpenClaw memory cheaply. For a Telegram bot workload, you want stable uptime, predictable network latency to the messaging API, and enough RAM to hold OpenClaw's memory store. Hostinger delivers all three from $5.99/mo.

Hardware sizing

For a single Telegram bot, start with the entry-level Hostinger plan from $5.99/mo. Scale up if you handle more than a few thousand messages per day, or if you add browser automation or local LLM inference to the agent.

Step-by-step setup

1) Provision the Hostinger instance. 2) Install Docker and pull the OpenClaw container. 3) Configure the messaging adapter (Telegram bot token, WhatsApp Business API key, Discord application token, etc.). 4) Define your agent's system prompt and tools in YAML. 5) Point the messaging webhook at the OpenClaw endpoint. Total setup is typically 30 minutes.

Monthly cost

At $5.99/mo, this is one of the cheapest production-quality ways to run a Telegram bot. Add LLM API costs (or zero if you self-host the model on a GPU instance), and you have a fully autonomous agent running for less than a single ChatGPT seat per month.