Website Keep-alive Service? Is there a demand? 

As most of you know the keep alive services that were provided by Host-Tracker.com are no longer going to be truly free, at least not for a service that will accurately keep an ASP.NET web application alive.

I currently have a utility where I could host a keep alive service for individuals however in the beginning it would be simply that a keep alive service, there would be logging/reporting of the sucess/failure of the requests it would just make sure that every 10 minutes your URL was called to prevent the application recycles.  Future modifications would be made to provide reporting interfaces, however, it might be a few weeks to a few months out.

Is there an interest for a reliable Keep Alive Only service?  I would charge $20 a year for 5 sites, $35 for 10 sites, and other pricing available for those with more than 10 sites.

Please click the following link to vote in the poll! Keep Alive Service Poll!

Posted by Mitchel on Thursday, August 23, 2007
Tags: MitchelSellers.com, Announcements
 

Comments

Yeah this is a problem for sure as I laso rely on them for a keep alive/monitoring service. Whilst I'm happy to pay $300 is a big jump. So if you build a little service I'll be in for sure! Regards, Nick

By nickc on Tuesday, August 28, 2007 at 12:22 AM

Yes. A very useful idea.

By Schad500 on Thursday, September 06, 2007 at 2:12 PM

I had this problem. The reason is that the application domain times out every 20 mins if there is no activity, the first request after the timeout can force a recompile and reload of cache. Changing some settings in the machine.config file will solve the problem; unfortunately for me my hosting provider would not allow me to make this change. I found this utility to be useful.

http://www.spikesolutions.net/ViewSolution.aspx?ID=c2b7edc0-5de1-4064-a432-05f6eded3b82

Essentially it "Pings" my home page every few mins so the application domain does not time out. The utility can also be configured to ping more than one page so that auxiliary pages are fast too.

By Joe Law on Tuesday, November 13, 2007 at 5:10 PM
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