Pinger

Prevent dynos from falling asleep.
What is Pinger?
"Pinger" is a Chrome extension called Pinger that prevents websites from falling asleep by pinging them every 20 minutes, ensuring instant page load. It allows you to ping multiple sites at once, select specific time ranges for pinging, and provides logs for successful pings and errors.

Extension stats

By: jzwang
Users: 357 ▲ 17
Version: 1.0.1 (Last updated: 2016-12-07)
Creation date: 2016-12-07
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • alarms
  • storage
  • *://*/*
  • http://fonts.googleapis.com/
  • https://fonts.googleapis.com/
Size: 9.91M

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Extension summary

Pinger will ping any websites on demand. Some site hosting services, such as Heroku, have a timer (e.g. 30 minutes) for their free acounts, such that after a certain amount of inactivity they will go to sleep and can take up to 10 or 20 seconds to wake up. Pinger will ping your websites every 20 minutes to make sure they will never go to sleep which ensures instantaneous page load.

Pinger allows you to ping multiple sites at once. Pinger also allows you to select the time range of the day that you want to be pinging your sites. Logs are provided in the extension to keep track of successful pings and any error reports. Pinger stores your sites in Chrome's synchronous storage so you will always have access to your stored sites.

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Note -- As of late 2015, Heroku will only allow 15 hours of awake time per 24 hours on free accounts, this is where Pinger's time range selection comes in. You can strategically select the times of the day when you need most that your sites to be awake.

Extension safety

Risk impact

Pinger requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

Pinger has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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