Two small, sourced facts that keep coming up when we build Telegram bots and fix WordPress sites for clients in India — neither is obvious from either platform's own marketing pages.
1. Telegram's Bot API is free to run, but it is rate-limited
Telegram lets you run a bot for free forever through the Bot API — no per-message fee, ever. But Telegram's own FAQ (core.telegram.org/bots/faq) sets hard ceilings on how fast a bot can actually send:
- 1 message per second to the same chat
- 20 messages per minute inside a group
- ~30 messages per second for bulk broadcasts to different users
Go over that and you start getting HTTP 429 errors. Want to go faster than 30/sec? Telegram now sells "paid broadcasts" — 0.1 Telegram Stars per message above the free tier, and it only unlocks once your bot has at least 100,000 Stars on its balance and 100,000 monthly active users. For almost every small-business use case — order alerts, status pings, reminders — the free tier is more than enough once the flow is designed around it, which is the part that actually takes engineering time.
We build these for a fixed ₹5,999 (up to 8 commands/menu flows, 5-7 day delivery, full source code handed over, no ownership lock-in): https://zoopcoder.com/services/telegram-bot-development.php
2. WordPress's blank white screen has an official name, and exactly two causes
Ever had a WordPress site go completely blank — no error message, just white? WordPress.org's own troubleshooting docs have a name for this: the "White Screen of Death" (WSOD). More useful than the name is what they say causes it — either a PHP error or a database error, almost always triggered right after a plugin or theme update.
That collapses the diagnostic problem from "could be anything" to "which of two categories, and which specific plugin/theme/query." It's why a WSOD fix is usually fast once someone actually looks, and slow only when nobody has looked yet.
We fix single website bugs like this — WSOD, broken forms, PHP errors, layout breaks — for a flat ₹999 per issue, 24-48 hour turnaround: https://zoopcoder.com/services/website-bug-fix.php
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Disclosure: I work at ZoopCoder, an Indian dev shop — sharing this because both facts come up on nearly every project and neither is stated plainly anywhere else.
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