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dgtlmoon edited this page Jan 5, 2022 · 7 revisions

Some things to consider

  • Heroku will destroy your datastore on upgrade, so you must download (click [BACKUP]) and re-upload the url-list.txt from the ZIP file on upgrade, but you will lose the 'history' of snapshots NOTE - (older versions 0.39.5 and older have this bug https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io/issues/348 )
  • Heroku will pause your instance if you don't use it (you would miss changes then) https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/free-dyno-hours#dyno-sleeping for this reason. I suggest you use Heroku for staging or testing purposes only, for production releases Heroku is probably a poor choice of platform.
  • If you want your Heroku Instance to wake up, you can set up a Scheduler Add-on like Advanced Scheduler. It is not free. Go to Resources - Add-ons - Activate "Advanced Scheduler". You can also find a free Python scripts to wake up the instance if you like.