I set up http://pingdom.com/ to monitor my site, you can set it up to
hit it every 5 minutes
this will keep it 'up and running' on heroku as well as inform you of
down time

you get 1 url for free

not sure if this will solve your problem as you have only 1 cached
page, but something to consider?

- Jesse

On Jan 7, 3:44 am, Martin Petrov <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well, you must be right. I don't have a very good understanding of how
> it works. Thank you Smith!
>
> On Jan 7, 1:08 pm, Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > Perhaps as the routing engine shuts down the app it also empties varnish. 
> > That would actually seem quite likely?
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> > On 7 Jan 2011, at 11:03, Martin Petrov wrote:
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> > > If this is the case then I should remove http caching in order to
> > > prevent the app from shutting down as much as possible.
> > > But... why requesting a cached page starts the app if the request is
> > > never handled by the app?
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> > > On Jan 7, 11:18 am, Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >> I'm not an expert on this so I would double check, however I think this 
> > >> is all the case,
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> > >> If you only have one dyno then the app will shutdown when there are no 
> > >> requests for a certain time period. I believe this isn't the case once 
> > >> you have more than one dyno but in my experience at that point you have 
> > >> enough concurrent connections to keep things alive anyway.
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> > >> If you are caching the page it will be stored in varnish so the request 
> > >> will never be handed out to the app and will therefore allow the app to 
> > >> shutdown.
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> > >> Steve
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> > >> On 7 Jan 2011, at 09:02, Martin Petrov wrote:
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> > >>> Hi,
>
> > >>> Looking at my logs I see that if my application is not used for 1 hour
> > >>> its state is changed from up to down. Next time a request comes it
> > >>> takes several seconds to start again.
>
> > >>> Does requesting an http cached page keeps the application alive? My
> > >>> app has only one page, which is http cached.
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