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Ports, accounts and proxies: three basics of cloud control billing and operation

How do ports relate to accounts? How do you rotate when you have more accounts than ports? Why does every account need a proxy? Get these three concepts straight before you start.

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Ports: an account’s seat in the cloud

A port hosts one online account at a time; signing in, sending and receiving messages and running tasks all happen in that port’s environment. Telegram cloud control costs 1 USDT per port per month, with a minimum of 10 ports.

Enable and archive: rotating ports

Accounts have two states: enabled accounts occupy ports and can be scheduled for tasks; archived accounts go offline on standby, occupy no port and cannot be operated.

So your account count does not have to equal your port count. With 30 ports and 90 accounts, for example, you can enable them in three rotating batches. Enable and archive both work in bulk on the Account Management page.

Expiry dates and renewal

Ports are billed monthly and each port has its own expiry date. After several purchases the dates usually differ, so you can balance them — averaging them onto a single day — and renew them together. For example, three ports expiring in 10, 20 and 30 days will all expire in 20 days after balancing.

Proxies: an account’s network identity

A proxy decides where an account connects to the internet from, and it is a key part of the runtime environment. Proxy Management supports http, https and socks5, added one by one or pasted in bulk; proxies without a protocol prefix are treated as socks5 by default, and you can change that when importing.

  • Use one proxy per account wherever possible, so large numbers of accounts do not share one exit IP.
  • Keep the proxy’s country in line with the country of the account’s phone number.
  • Statistics Report breaks down lost accounts by dimensions such as accounts per proxy and proxy vs. number country, so you can check your proxy strategy against real data.

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Telegram is 1 USDT per port per month, minimum 10 ports, all features included.