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

by inoda • 7 years ago

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whalesalad• 7 years ago

Funny 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.

inoda5• 7 years ago

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.

pictur• 7 years ago

The simplest solution https://uptimerobot.com/

inoda5• 7 years ago

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.

_pmf_• 7 years ago

Alternative title: how to ruin free tiers for everyone

inoda5• 7 years ago

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.

rhardih• 7 years ago

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

gbourne1• 7 years ago

You only get a limited number of free hours. 1000 with a credit card otherwise 550.

https://www.heroku.com/free

inoda5• 7 years ago

Yep! This works around that by having a window where the requests are paused.

gop1• 7 years ago

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

inoda5• 7 years ago

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.

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

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