Show HN: A little app to keep your free Heroku apps awake(github.com)

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

https://github.com/inoda/heroku-pinger

11 comments

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.

inoda7 lat temu

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.

_pmf_7 lat temu

Alternative title: how to ruin free tiers for everyone

inoda7 lat temu

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.

rhardih7 lat temu

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

gop17 lat temu

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

inoda7 lat temu

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.

gbourne17 lat temu

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

https://www.heroku.com/free

inoda7 lat temu

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

pictur7 lat temu

The simplest solution https://uptimerobot.com/

inoda7 lat temu

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.