Telegram API not working, how to fix it?

Question

PHP

I'm sending orders from the site to telegrams,
it doesn't work, the problem is due to blocking in the Russian Federation, the server seems to be located there.

$sendToTelegram = fopen("https://api.telegram.org/bot{$token}/sendMessage?chat_id={$chat_id}&parse_mode=html&text={$txt}","r");

Googled it and did it through a proxy, like this

$url = "https://api.telegram.org/bot{$token}/sendMessage?chat_id={$chat_id}&parse_mode=html&text={$txt}";

$ch = curl_init();
$proxy = "138.68.76.27:1080";
$optArray = array(
  CURLOPT_URL => $url,
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_PROXY =>  "socks5://$proxy"
);
    curl_setopt_array($ch, $optArray);
    $result = curl_exec($ch);
    echo json_encode(['status' => 'success']);

But this method does not work very stable, sometimes a message comes, sometimes not. How to fix this, where to get a proxy, and how else can I fix it?

Answer 1

Starting a server in the neutral zone is not an option, is it?