Stop Your Python Bots From Crashing: Complete Reliability Guide

Every bot crashes eventually — a malformed API response, a rate limit, a dependency that briefly goes down. The difference between a hobby project and something you can trust is what happens in the seconds after that crash. This guide covers python bot restart strategy end-to-end: how deployment failures actually happen, how to configure recovery properly with StayPresent, and how to avoid turning a single crash into a full crash loop.

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Common Deployment Failures

Understanding Crash Loops