Telegram Desktop's export is a file you make once by hand; Telegram Archive is a self-hosted backup that keeps saving your chats on a schedule and in real time, then lets you read them in a viewer that looks like Telegram. After one login with the code Telegram sends you, it stores messages, photos, videos, voice notes, stickers, documents, and link previews, saving each file once even when several chats share it. A live listener captures new messages, edits, and reactions as they happen, and a daily full pass fills any gaps. Every edit keeps its earlier text as a version, and with deletion tracking switched on, deleted messages stay in the archive marked as deleted. The viewer offers folders, forum topics, archived chats, pinned messages, polls, shared media, and search across every chat, plus a What changed feed of deletions, edits, and transcripts. Voice notes can be transcribed into searchable text by a server you run or rent. Family or colleagues get logins limited to chosen chats, or a share link that opens a single chat. One archive holds several accounts, a Telegram Desktop export can be imported for older history, and twelve themes suit phones and desktops. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-3.0-or-later licensed.