A Faster Free Heroku (Kinda) | Quick Hack

If you've been building stuff on web for a while now, you've probably heard of HEROKU and NETLIFY

Just-In-Case you haven't heard about it

Quick Intro on Heroku and Netlify

Heroku: A free PaaS (Platform as a Service), basically a cloud service that let's you host and share your web apps.

Netlify: A free hosting service for static sites, basically react, vanilla javascript, etc projects.

NETLIFY is Usually Used on Frontend Projects.
HEROKU is Usually Used on Backend Projects.

The Problem with Heroku

Pro's:

Heroku is Easy to Use.

Heroku is Free.

Con's:

Heroku has Premium

Heroku's free tier uses dynos (Stuff That Hosts Your Code) that sleeps after 30 mins of inactivity

Once a dyno falls asleep, It takes time for it to awaken.
So the initial response is slow and the damage is already done.

Work Around

Re-Read This Line

Heroku's free tier uses dynos (Stuff That Hosts Your Code) that sleeps after 30 mins of inactivity

If You Haven't Got It Yet, Re-Read It Again

Heroku's free tier uses dynos (Stuff That Hosts Your Code) that sleeps after 30 mins of inactivity

💡Light Bulb💡

30 mins of inactivity

All We Need To Do is Do Something Every 30mins.
Nah 15mins to be on the safer side

For node.js dev(s) Out There

GGWP,
@LucidMach
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