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Show HN: A little app to keep your free Heroku apps awake
- whalesalad 7y agoFunny 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.
- inoda 7y agoThis 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 7y agoThe simplest solution https://uptimerobot.com/ https://uptimerobot.com/
- inoda 7y agoThe 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_ 7y agoAlternative title: how to ruin free tiers for everyone
- inoda 7y agoWhy 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 7y agoIf everyone kept their free dynos up the maximum amount of time, that limit would probably be a lot lower.
- gbourne1 7y agoYou only get a limited number of free hours. 1000 with a credit card otherwise 550. https://www.heroku.com/free https://www.heroku.com/free
- inoda 7y agoYep! This works around that by having a window where the requests are paused.
- gop1 7y agoJust add your site to any uptime monitoring tools like https://uptimerobot.com https://uptimerobot.com or https://webmonitoring.online https://webmonitoring.online
- inoda 7y agoThe 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.