Use Cases/Telegram Bot Keepalive
— Keepalive

Keep your Telegram bot alive
without a VPS

Free hosting platforms like Render, Railway, and Fly.io spin down your app after 15–30 minutes of inactivity. Your users see “Bot not responding.” You see nothing — until someone complains.

QuzenixCron pings your bot every 5 minutes. The platform thinks there's traffic, so it never sleeps. Free plan. No credit card.

Start free — 2 jobs includedSee configuration examples

The problem with free hosting

Render, Railway, Fly.io, and Koyeb all offer free tiers. The trade-off: your app sleeps after a period of inactivity — usually 15 to 30 minutes. When a user messages your bot, the platform wakes it up, but that takes 30–50 seconds. The Telegram app shows “Bot not responding.”

The fix is simple: keep the app warm with regular pings. But that means running another process somewhere just to send HTTP requests on a schedule — which defeats the purpose of using free hosting.

QuzenixCron is that scheduler. Free, reliable, and built exactly for this.

Set up in 2 minutes

01
Sign up for free
Create a free account — no credit card required. Free plan includes 2 cron jobs running every 30 minutes, forever.
02
Create a keepalive job
Set the URL to your bot's endpoint (e.g. https://api.telegram.org/bot{TOKEN}/getMe), method GET, and interval every 5 minutes.
03
Your bot stays alive
QuzenixCron pings your bot on schedule. If the ping ever fails, you get an instant email alert so you know before your users do.
Example configuration
NameTelegram Bot Keepalive
URLhttps://api.telegram.org/bot{TOKEN}/getMe
MethodGET
Schedule*/5 * * * * (every 5 minutes)
Timeout30s

What you get

Instant failure alerts
The moment your bot's URL returns an error or times out, you get an email. Pro users also get Telegram, Slack, and Discord alerts.
Execution history
See every ping — timestamp, HTTP status, response time. Know exactly when your bot was down and for how long.
Heartbeat monitors
Go further: have your bot ping QuzenixCron every few minutes. If your bot goes silent, we alert you — even if the host looks healthy.

Stop losing users to idle timeouts

Free plan · 2 cron jobs · no credit card · no expiry

Create free keepalive job →
Related use cases
Render Keepalive →Railway Keepalive →Free Cron Job Service →