Woody Wood

Not sure what you're going to use the channel for in your application. But if it's for sending messages to the channel for others to view, then I've used the Telegram bot api for about a year, never had a problem with it - so I would recommend that, but I never tried using the base api.

Take a look at Laravel and it's admin page "Nova", that will get you going with a management system very fast!

I've used nginx along with haproxy for years, HAproxy have run without going down on one of my servers for amost 4 years now, never had a single problem with it. This server recieved millions and millions of hits. I tried traefik once, so I don't have enough stats about it to say much.