At least Google isn't doing it, you can enable "warmup requests". https://develo...

		Sami_Lehtinen on Jan 22, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Heroku shouldn’t be sandbagging paying customers w... At least Google isn't doing it, you can enable "warmup requests". https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/config/a... Btw. Heroku and App Engine apps start fast, compared to what ep.io (free) app start took, it was more like 20-30 seconds than 2-5 seconds.