Heroku Discord Bot is offline

Question

I\'m hosting a discord chat bot on heroku, and suddenly it went offline. I am new to hosting on heroku, so i don\'t understand a lot, but, i tried simple things like deploying a

Answer 1

That happens because you're using a web dyno: a dyno that is put asleep if the application doesn't serve a website for more than 1 hour.
The solution is to switch from a web dyno to a worker dyno: this type does not serve websites (and if you're running a Discord bot you don't need it) and never goes to sleep.

Go in your Procfile file & replace web with worker, it should look like this:

worker: npm start //this is the command you use to start your app.

If you want you can take a look at the Heroku article about sleeping apps.