chatbot-constructor/docs/hosting-your-own-bot.md

A chatbot constructor/builder that can help you develop chatbots in no time either using javascript and nodejs or without programming using excel sheet or JSON format. And it can also easily integrate with AI services like LUIS, Watson, Lex, Octane.AI, Wi

# How To Host Your Botkit App

This is a placeholder for forthcoming docs. Sorry!

## the gist

Get a server somewhere. [Digital Ocean](https://m.do.co/c/c8d2cb189d36) is a good choice, but Botkit runs in Azure, AWS, Heroku and others.

Get your process up and running on some port - 3000 by default.

Set up letsencrypt or some other SSL solution. Most messaging platforms now require that your endpoint be served over SSL.

Set up nginx to serve your ssl-enabled website and proxy traffic to the bot application on port 3000.

Voila! You have a ssl-enabled bot.

### Optional next steps:
* Only accept requests over https.
* Block access to port 3000


## related topics

* scaling up with multiple bot processes
* botkit and continuous integration