How to keep an App Engine/Java app running with deaf requests from a Java/Python web cron?

Question

1. App Engine allows you 30 seconds to load your application
2. My application takes around 30 seconds - sometimes more, sometimes less. I don\'t know how to fix th

Answer 1

App engine also has a new PAY feature where you can have it "always-on". Costs about $0.30 USD cents a day. Just go into your billing settings and enable it if you don't mind paying for the feature. I believe it guarantees you at least 3 instances always running.

(I didn't realize hitting a /ping url which caused an instance to spin up would cause it to exceed the 30 sec limit!)