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Show HN: A little app to keep your free Heroku apps awake

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Re: Show HN: A little app to keep your free Heroku apps awake

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Post by inoda » Wed, Oct 30, 2019, 2:12 PM UTC

gop1 wrote: post #10

Just add your site to any uptime monitoring tools like https://uptimerobot.com or https://webmonitoring.online

The problem with this is that you don't want your free dyno to stay awake all the time because free dyno hours are capped. This tool let's you set a window to pause the requests.

Re: Show HN: A little app to keep your free Heroku apps awake

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Post by rhardih » Wed, Oct 30, 2019, 9:59 PM UTC

inoda wrote: post #7

_pmf_ wrote: post #4

Alternative title: how to ruin free tiers for everyone

Why is this the case? This stays within Heroku's limits for free tiers. They cap free dyno hours anyways so if you need your app awake all the time you have no choice but to pay.

If everyone kept their free dynos up the maximum amount of time, that limit would probably be a lot lower.

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