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Covers installation via Hostinger VPS or manual curl command, configuring an OpenAI model provider, connecting a Telegram bot for messaging, adding web search via Firecrawl, enabling voice messaging, and scheduling recurring tasks with cron jobs. Also discusses security best practices like using dedicated hardware and restricting bot access to sensitive data. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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