Time the Cold Start Before You Trust a Free Server With Your Review Bot

Engineers and indie founders often overlook cold start latency when using free server instances and model endpoints. In one case, a review bot's initial request time after idling remained unknown, while another demo failed when a visitor closed the tab after a thirty-eight second delay. Free hosts sleep during idle periods and endpoints throttle during bursts. Consequently, the critical performance metric is not general functionality, but the response time after ten minutes of inactivity.