Hi, Heroku is providing a service for free. Which is great. So if no one is using your app, heroku swap the app out out so other apps can use the memory for their free apps. Think shared hosting. But for free.
If you want your app to be a production app and always instantly available, then you may want to upgrade to 2 dynos ($36/month). --Keenan On Jan 7, 2011, at 10:12 AM, Jesse wrote: > 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: >>> Perhaps as the routing engine shuts down the app it also empties varnish. >>> That would actually seem quite likely? >> >>> On 7 Jan 2011, at 11:03, Martin Petrov wrote: >> >>>> 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? >> >>>> 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, >> >>>>> 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. >> >>>>> 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. >> >>>>> Steve >> >>>>> On 7 Jan 2011, at 09:02, Martin Petrov wrote: >> >>>>>> 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. >> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>>> Groups "Heroku" group. >>>>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>>> [email protected]. >>>>>> For more options, visit this group >>>>>> athttp://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en. >> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "Heroku" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> [email protected]. >>>> For more options, visit this group >>>> athttp://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Heroku" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en.
