You could - but it would need to be every 1 minute. Google tears down your app after 60-90 seconds of inactivity. Some folks have resorted to pinging every min

You could - but it would need to be every 1 minute. Google tears down your app after 60-90 seconds of inactivity. Some folks have resorted to pinging every minute but Google discourages that since it ties up their resources. If everyone pinged their site once a minute then resources would never be freed.... Here's a good thread on the issue https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/browse_thread/thread/22692895421825cb/659bbb536f54028f https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/browse_thre...