How to stop Your Heroku app from sleeping😴 (FREE)

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Pankaj Tanwar

I write about System Design & Web Tech. Curious about how things work!

Apr 25, 2021

Nice writeup. I would recommend, rather then relying on a third party service, there are a few possible methods you can try -

Write a Cron job on server to keep the application awake
Self pinging your own server in each 20 min (put code in the main server file)
Run a timeout based Google apps script to ping your server

Your thoughts?

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Hrithwik Bharadwaj

Software Engineer ,Tech Enthusiast, Violinist

Apr 26, 2021

Yes this is a good solution which most of them use Pankaj. Most of my articles are targeted for beginners who are just starting out and using Kaffeine Shots is extremely simple

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Rahul Kamath

Apr 24, 2021

Needed this. thank you

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Hrithwik Bharadwaj

Software Engineer ,Tech Enthusiast, Violinist

Apr 24, 2021

Glad that it was helpful

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How to stop Your Heroku app from sleeping😴 (FREE)

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