diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 7309e8c..3a66aa0 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 # discord-giveawaybot
 
-A demo version of the bot lives on Discord: https://discord.gg/gMEGQBj
-
 [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/shukriadams/discord-giveawaybot.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/shukriadams/discord-giveawaybot)
 
 Gives away Steam games on Discord. Heavily inspired by https://github.com/jagrosh/GiveawayBot
 
+A demo version can be seen on Discord: https://discord.gg/gMEGQBj
+
 ## Requirements
 
 - NodeJS 7 or greater.
@@ -20,9 +20,11 @@ Gives away Steam games on Discord. Heavily inspired by https://github.com/jagros
 
 ## Host your bot
 
-There are three ways to host your bot. In all cases, first create a sub folder called "discord-giveawaybot" in the root folder you're working from, to this sub folder copy exampleSettings.json, rename to settings.json, and add your bot token from Discord.
+There are three ways to host your bot. In all cases, your should create a folder (this will be your bot's root folder).
+In this create a sub folder called "discord-giveawaybot", in this sub folder copy exampleSettings.json, rename it
+settings.json, open it with your favorite text editor, and add your Discord bot token (see above) to the "token" field.
 
-### From Docker image
+### 1) From Docker image
 
 Image on Docker hub : https://hub.docker.com/r/shukriadams/discord-giveawaybot/
 
@@ -44,20 +46,20 @@ Image on Docker hub : https://hub.docker.com/r/shukriadams/discord-giveawaybot/
 
 These settings can of course be tweaked to suite your host setup, only npm start and the volume map are required.
 
-### From NPM
+### 2) From NPM
 
 - Install
 
         npm install discord-giveawaybot --save
     
-- Run  
+- Run
 
         let Bot = require('discord-giveawaybot'),
             bot = new Bot();
 
         bot.start();
 
-### From source
+### 3) From source
 
 - Clone this repo.
 - Run
@@ -65,7 +67,6 @@ These settings can of course be tweaked to suite your host setup, only npm start
         npm install
         npm start
 
-
 ## Add your bot to your Discord server
 
 - back on your app's Discord config page (from the first section above), copy your bot's client id and paste it into
@@ -79,6 +80,16 @@ should see your bot as a user on your server.
 "@BOTNAME channel" where BOTNAME is whatever name you gave your bot.
 - That's it, you're set to go.
 
+## Known issues
+
+The bot has a memory leak, and will hang periodically. I don't have a fix for this, a workaround is to enable self-timeout
+in settings.json
+
+    "processLifetime" : 480
+
+This value is in minutes, and after it has elapsed, the bot will cleanly exit and flush used memory. If you're hosting
+with docker or pm2, they should automatically bring the bot back up, and you're good to run again.
+
 ## Additional config
 
 By default, only admins can create and manage giveaways. If you want to delegate giveaway responsibilities to non-admins
@@ -207,7 +218,6 @@ If you want to run it directly on your machine, install Node 7 or higher. Then r
     npm install
     node index
 
-
 ## Tests
 
     npm test
diff --git a/lib/bot.js b/lib/bot.js
index fa4acb0..b38f4c7 100644
--- a/lib/bot.js
+++ b/lib/bot.js
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ let codes = require('./codes'),
     Trace = require('./trace'),
     hi = require('./highlight'),
     process = require('process'),
+    Store = require('./store'),
     path = require('path'),
     fs = require('fs'),
     State = require('./state'),
@@ -19,6 +20,8 @@ class Bot{
     constructor(options){
         options = options || {};
         this.cronEnabled = true;
+        this.busyProcessingMessage = false;
+        this.willShutdown = false;
 
         if(options.cronEnabled === false)
             this.cronEnabled = false;
@@ -68,6 +71,12 @@ class Bot{
                 try
                 {
                     this.daemon = Daemon.instance();
+                    this.daemon.onProcessExpired = async function(){
+                        this.willShutdown = true;
+                        if (!this.busyProcessingMessage)
+                            await this.shutdown();
+                    }.bind(this);
+
                     if (this.cronEnabled)
                         await this.daemon.start();
                 } catch (ex){
@@ -105,7 +114,7 @@ class Bot{
      * Called after bot connects to discord and is ready to receive messages.
      */
     _onReady(){
-        console.log('Giveawaybot is ready.');
+        console.log('discord-giveawaybot is now running.');
 
         // todo : validate settings
 
@@ -113,6 +122,16 @@ class Bot{
         // permissions etc
     }
 
+    async shutdown(){
+
+        // close Loki down gracefully
+        let store = await Store.instance();
+        await store.close();
+
+        console.log(`Bot lifetime (${this.settings.values.processLifetime}m) expired. Exiting now, this is not an error.`);
+        process.exitCode = 0;
+        process.exit();
+    }
 
     /**
      * Entry point for all incoming user messages. This is where all user-driven interaction (as opposed to daemon)
@@ -122,6 +141,8 @@ class Bot{
         return new Promise(async function(resolve, reject){
             try {
 
+                this.busyProcessingMessage = true;
+
                 // reject messages @bot (these are public messages), unless message is to set "channel"
                 if (message.content.indexOf(`<@${message.client.user.id}>`) === 0 && message.content.toLowerCase().trim() !== `<@${message.client.user.id}> channel`) {
                     await message.reply('Please message me directly.');
@@ -182,6 +203,10 @@ class Bot{
             } catch (ex) {
                 this._handleUnexpectedError(ex, message);
                 return reject(ex);
+            } finally {
+                this.busyProcessingMessage = false;
+                if (this.willShutdown)
+                    await this.shutdown();
             }
         }.bind(this));
     }
diff --git a/lib/daemon.js b/lib/daemon.js
index fa173d1..0bdecc2 100644
--- a/lib/daemon.js
+++ b/lib/daemon.js
@@ -21,6 +21,11 @@ let winston = require('winston'),
 
 class Daemon {
 
+    constructor(){
+        this.started = new Date();
+        this.willShutdown = false;
+    }
+
     /**
      * Starts the timer loop that calls .tick()
      */
@@ -35,7 +40,7 @@ class Daemon {
             try
             {
                 // use busy flag to prevent the daemon from running over itself
-                if (busy)
+                if (busy || this.willShutdown)
                     return;
 
                 busy = true;
@@ -259,6 +264,15 @@ class Daemon {
         // clean old giveaways
         store.clean();
 
+        // check if lifetime has passed
+        if (settings.values.processLifetime && this.onProcessExpired){
+            let shouldExpire = timeHelper.minutesSince(this.started) >= settings.values.processLifetime;
+            if (shouldExpire){
+               this.willShutdown = true;
+                this.onProcessExpired();
+            }
+        }
+
         return codes.DAEMON_FINISHED;
     }
 
diff --git a/lib/settings.js b/lib/settings.js
index c0bd4bc..7132eab 100644
--- a/lib/settings.js
+++ b/lib/settings.js
@@ -38,6 +38,10 @@ class Settings {
 
         if (this.values.joinGiveawayResponseCharacter === undefined)
             this.values.joinGiveawayResponseCharacter = '🎉';
+
+        // int, and in minutes
+        if (this.values.processLifetime && !Number.isInteger(this.values.processLifetime))
+            throw new Error ('settings.json processLifetime value must an integer');
     }
 
     save(){
diff --git a/lib/store.js b/lib/store.js
index 7f695d4..99b2589 100644
--- a/lib/store.js
+++ b/lib/store.js
@@ -48,6 +48,18 @@ class Store {
         }
     }
 
+    async close(){
+        return new Promise(async function(resolve, reject) {
+            try {
+                this.database.close(function(){
+                    resolve();
+                });
+            } catch (ex){
+                reject(ex);
+            }
+        }.bind(this));
+    }
+
     static _convert (record){
         return {
             id : record.$loki.toString(),
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 034c64e..7221ae2 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
     "name": "discord-giveawaybot",
-    "version": "0.1.2",
+    "version": "0.1.3",
     "description": "A Discord bot that gives games away.",
     "private": false,
     "author": "shukri.adams@gmail.com",
diff --git a/vagrant/Vagrantfile b/vagrant/Vagrantfile
index 9743384..64c02b2 100644
--- a/vagrant/Vagrantfile
+++ b/vagrant/Vagrantfile
@@ -13,6 +13,5 @@ Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
      v.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--memory", 1048]
   end
 
-  config.vm.provision "file", source: "~/.ssh/id_rsa", destination: "~/.ssh/id_rsa"
   config.vm.provision :shell, path: "provision.sh"
 end