BellaCodeKeepSiteAlive is a Windows Service that pings URLS at regular intervals.
This is most often used to prevent application pools from shutting down for sites that don't have heavy internet traffic.
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Build and/or copy the BellaCodeKeepSiteAlive to your computer.
- You can download the EXE from the 'Built' folder in this repository.
- I recommend 'Program Files\BellaCodeKeepSiteAlive' as a good location.
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Create/Modify the SiteUrls.txt file in the same directory as the EXE.
- Each line of the file represents a web site to ping regularly.
- Each line should be the time between pings (hh:mm:ss), a space, and then the URL.
- This line will ping the BellaCode site every 1 minute and 3 seconds
00:01:03 http://www.bellacode.com/ -
Open a command prompt with administrator permission and run the EXE with the installation switch.
BellaCodeKeepSiteAlive /i -
Start the service.
net start BellaCodeKeepSiteAlive
You can look in the Application event log for the BellaCodeKeepSiteAlive event source. It will log the following:
- Service Starting/Started and the number of sites it found.
- If there is an exception loading SiteUrls.txt
- When each site's keep alive thread starts.
- If the site returns something other than OK (reported as a warning).
- If there is an exception calling a site (reported as an error)
- Service Stopping/Stopped.
These features are not implemented. Pull requests welcome.
- Sites requiring authentication
- Following redirects