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
#2Funny that this depends on the Heroku scheduler to work. Why not just throw a curl command in the Heroku scheduler like everyone else? I can’t think of a reason to use this when you have cron and a bash script with a curl command in it.
Or pay $7 a month to get a hobby dyno... you cant possibly need 24x7 uptime if you can’t afford $7 a month.
Re: Show HN: A little app to keep your free Heroku apps awake
#3The simplest solution https://uptimerobot.com/
Re: Show HN: A little app to keep your free Heroku apps awake
#4Alternative title: how to ruin free tiers for everyone
Re: Show HN: A little app to keep your free Heroku apps awake
#5You only get a limited number of free hours. 1000 with a credit card otherwise 550.
Re: Show HN: A little app to keep your free Heroku apps awake
#6The simplest solution https://uptimerobot.com/
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
#7Alternative 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.
Re: Show HN: A little app to keep your free Heroku apps awake
#8You only get a limited number of free hours. 1000 with a credit card otherwise 550. https://www.heroku.com/free
Yep! This works around that by having a window where the requests are paused.
Re: Show HN: A little app to keep your free Heroku apps awake
#9Funny that this depends on the Heroku scheduler to work. Why not just throw a curl command in the Heroku scheduler like everyone else? I can’t think of a reason to use this when you have cron and a bash script with a curl command in it. Or pay $7 a month to get a hobby dyno... you cant possibly need 24x7 uptime if you can’t afford $7 a month.
This isn't for 24/7 uptime. And it also doesn't depend on Heroku scheduler. That's just one option for getting this up and running quickly.
Re: Show HN: A little app to keep your free Heroku apps awake
#10Just add your site to any uptime monitoring tools like https://uptimerobot.com or https://webmonitoring.online