My Apps are all in production mode.  I would gladly pay for Heroku to
run at least one instance of each app all the time :)

On Jan 8, 7:45 am, "Paul Clegg" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think this is a result of the virtual machine design Heroku is using.  One
> of the ideas behind cloud computing is that your servers don't exist until
> needed.  So if your server hasn't been used in an hour, all its resources
> are removed from use.  That first request, then, takes some extra time as
> the virtual instance is re-allocated, the code is started, and so forth.
> I've noticed it on my apps, too.
>
> Admittedly, such a long latency for that first request is pretty bad, but I
> can't blame them for "turning my app off" if nobody's used it in an hour.
>
> Also, is your app running in "development mode" or in "production mode"?  I
> wonder if that might make a slight improvement...
>
> ...Paul
>
> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Matthew Moore <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > Some of my apps are seeing occasionally horrible performance - a
> > greater-than 10 second response time - even for static files like
> > index.html.
>
> > From purely anecdotal experience, it seems like this is happening when
> > the app hasn't been contacted for a few hours, and then on the first
> > request after this dormancy, it will take a long time to start.  The
> > second request will go much faster.
>
> > Since I rely on these apps having a < 10s response time (which is
> > fairly reasonable for 2 SQL queries per request) because I contact
> > them via API, I was wondering if you guys had any advise.
>
> > I could obviously just keep pinging my apps every hour, but this seems
> > like a hack.  Do you have any other recommendations to prevent them
> > from having what seems like a "startup" time?
>
> > Thanks in advance!
> > Matt
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