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How to keep render instance active

Posted on Friday, 12 September 2025

A simple way to stop your Render project from going to sleep if you have a free tier.

  1. Go to cron-job
  2. Create an account
  3. Create a new cron job
  4. Add the link to your api into the URL section
  5. Set execution schedule to run every 5 minutes
  6. Press create

The cron job will now hit the endpoint every 5 minutes ensuring Render wont put your service to sleep if it detects inactivity.

Hope this helps.