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

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

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

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jonas_k2 days ago

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.

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UptimeRobot set up. First donor this morning got the page in 2 seconds.

amara_v 2 days ago

priya_ships2 days ago

If the form only collects donations, you might not need a server at all. A payment link from your payment provider is a hosted page: no backend, never sleeps, and card handling isn't your problem. Put the link behind a "Donate" button on a static page and use the provider's dashboard or a webhook later for the thank-you email.

Keep Replit for the parts that really need code.

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We only need an amount and an email. A payment link would remove half the app. Looking into it this weekend.

amara_v 2 days ago

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