How to keep your free hosted Heroku web app awake 24/7
Heroku is a very exciting free hosting service that allows us, developers to host free web apps or websites on the cloud in minutes . This service is especially famous among python developers, as it is probably the only free hosting service that supports python (If you know any other service, let me know in the comments). It is very convenient to deploy experimental code or small scale apps. For those of you who don't know, this format of cloud service is called PaaS, which stands for Platform as a Service. The problem The thing about all these free services online are, they all come with strings attached. Some of them are free only for a limited period of time, and some are free for a limited set of features. I personally prefer the later. An example of the first kind is Microsoft Azure. They have a 30 day trial period and they take your credit card information while registering. Whereas Heroku doesn't take your credit card information while registering. But it has li...