Question 1

Lavalink Hosting

Accepted Answer

We're offering free Lavalink hosting to everyone, it's quite simple!

| Lavalink is a standalone audio sending node based on Lavaplayer and JDA-Audio. Allows for sending audio without it ever reaching any of your shards. It is a great alternative to youtube-dl.

You can use Lavalink to easily allow your Music bots to connect to Discord's audio services without spending any resources streaming audio and encoding it!

Features

Automatic IP rotation (prevents endpoint ratelimits)
Multiple nodes designed for audio encoding and decoding (Virtually 0% downtime)
Located in Germany
Based on the dev branch

Access details Host: lava.link Port: 80 Password: anything as a password

Lavalink Wrappers

NodeJS https://www.npmjs.com/package/lavalink
Python https://github.com/Devoxin/Lavalink.py
Java https://github.com/Frederikam/Lavalink
.Net https://github.com/Yucked/Victoria

If you have any questions, kindly ask us in our livechat or our ticket system. Enjoy! You can also join our support server!

Question 2

Make phone calls from Discord

Accepted Answer

|| SomethingHost is a revolutionary company that specializes in Discord bots and hosting services. Within our first month we've managed to host more than 2,500 bots, serving tens of thousands of guilds.

Something Phone is an amazing Discord bot that allows you to call phone numbers in major countries, with just one simple command.

Command list

$call <Phone Number - Attempts to call the provided number
$speaker <Mention Users> - Choose who can be heard in the phone call
$rates <Country Code> - Informs you about the cost to call numbers to this country
$balance - See the available funds in your SomethingCP account

||| Keep in mind that there's an automated system in place that automatically transcripts your side of the call and attempts to find any malicious use of the bot. Remember, harassing, making death threats or any other abusive behavior is not tolerated.

Bot invitation link => Click Here

Support server => https://discord.gg/hosting

Question 3

How to switch your service to the development mode (InDev)

Accepted Answer

Welcome to Something.Host!

In this guide you will learn how to toggle the development mode (InDev) on your service.

Development mode (InDev) allows you to run any linux command in your service. It's useful when you want to install dependencies using npm, pip, luarocks or whatever else you have.

To enable development mode (InDev), go to your Your service > Configuration

Location of the "Configuration" tab

And clear out the "Startup Command" box from any text it may contain and hit save.

| Make sure to Rebuild your service in order for the changes to be applied.

Question 4

How to make a Discord music bot

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Welcome to Something!

In this tutorial, you will learn how you can host your very own Music bot for your Discord server.

Why host a music bot with SomethingHost instead of using a public one?

Many public bots limit the ability to change the volume of the music, for performance reasons
Public bots may have downtimes and slow connection due to the massive amount of the servers using them
You have dedicated resources for your bot, ensuring its superior performance
You can have subusers that can manage your bot and update it whenever needed

| Hosting a Discord bot yourself ensures that your community will be safe and protected from any malicious bots || For this tutorial we will be using jagrosh's Music Bot, an open-sourced music bot written in Java using the JDA library

Let's begin!

First, go to the **Configuration **page of your Discord bot

Choose Java 1.10 as the programming language and leave the startup command empty, in order to activate the Development Mode

Go back to the Console page, and click on Rebuild and then click on Start
Now click on Start and wait for your service to start. You should see something like that

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/3fcd928dd6008600/image_1j8fp

Question 5

How to install FFmpeg

Accepted Answer

Welcome to Something!

In this guide you will learn how to install and setup FFmpeg to your service.

| Hey! If you are looking to install FFmpeg for your Music bot, you should use our Lavalink system for the highest quality music without impacting your bot performance!

To get started, you will need to be in development mode (InDev) to run commands.

After that, it is quite easy, the only thing you have to do is to execute this command once: mkdir /home/container/ffmpegLib && cd /home/container/ffmpegLib && wget https://johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/builds/ffmpeg-git-amd64-static.tar.xz && tar xf ffmpeg-git-amd64-static.tar.xz && rm -rf ffmpeg-git-amd64-static.tar.xz && mv ffmpeg-git-*/* . && rm -rf ffmpeg-git-* && cd /home/container

Then before executing your bot, you have to run export PATH=/home/container/ffmpegLib:${PATH} to expose ffmpeg to the container's path

So, if your startup command is something like python bot.py it becomes export PATH=/home/container/ffmpegLib:${PATH} && python bot.py

That's it! You are now be able to use FFmpeg!

Question 6

Getting Started

Accepted Answer

Welcome to Something!

In this guide you will learn how to upload and configure your bot into our services.

1: Get a service running

The first thing you will need to do is order a Discord Bot package from our panel.

2: Configure your service

The programming language needs to be the same as your bot's language, make sure you put the correct one with the correct version. You can put a startup command which will be executed on your server's startup. Leave it empty to go InDev mode.

Configuration Page

3: Upload your bot's files

The next step is to download an FTP/SFTP client and login to your service.

| FTP is what is used to transfer files through our servers. Check our tutorials on how to use FileZilla or WinSCP

You can now upload your bot files into your service.

||| If you are using NodeJS, do not upload your node_modules folder. Upload your package.json file then run npm i in your console.

4: Start your bot

Now, you can start your bot by executing a command either in your console using [InDev mode](/en/article/how-

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