Question

Replit app sleeps and the first donor gets a 30 second spinner

Solved · 53 views · asked 6 days ago by amara_v · edited

My donor form is on Replit. Nobody uses it at night, and the first person in the morning waits 30 seconds. Some give up.

Turned on "Always On" once, but it costs more than the donations some months.

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jonas_k6 days ago · edited

That's the cold start. Two cheap options:

A free uptime monitor (Better Stack, UptimeRobot) pinging your URL every 5 minutes keeps it awake for free.
Move the form to a static host (Vercel, Netlify) and only call Replit for the submit. Static pages never sleep.

For a donation form I'd do 2: the page must be instant, the backend can take a second.