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nachonachoman
nachonachoman

Reputation: 852

How do I improve app performance on AppHarbor?

I have an application hosted on AppHarbor that is visited a few times a day with a light load.

The performance experience is a SLOW first page load as the dormant worker process wakes up. Subsequent page loads are fast.

I want to reduce the amount of time for the initial load. Will buying additional instances solve this issue, or should I look towards a dedicated host

Upvotes: 29

Views: 2350

Answers (2)

friism
friism

Reputation: 19279

You app pool will be spun down after 20 minutes of inactivity, this is standard IIS behaviour.

To avoid this, you can upgrade from Canoe to either the Catamaran or Yacht plans. Web apps on those plan don't idle (adding a custom hostname, SSL or running more than one dyno on the Canoe plan will still give you an idling app).

You can also circumvent the idling by using services like Pingdom and StillAlive to generate requests for your site. But upgrading from Canoe is fairer to AppHarbor.

Upvotes: 25

Henrik
Henrik

Reputation: 9945

The way I do it, is have something like this running locally: https://github.com/haf/Requester

It just queries the web app every nth second and keeps it in memory. It's a hack, but it works and the problems go away when the app becomes more popular. ^^

Upvotes: 5

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