How to keep .NET 8 Hangfire application always running on IIS?

[dedmytas]

Hi,

I made a post on your forum: https://discuss.hangfire.io/t/how-to-keep-net-8-hangfire-application-always-running-on-iis/10806

tl;dr

I have a .NET 8 application running Hangfire and hosting on IIS.
After some time the application shuts down (I'm guessing because it does not get any user input).
This is really bad, because I have a scheduled task that needs to run daily.

I did everything in your documentation section to keep IIS app always running, but it does not work. documentation link
I recycle / restart app pool, but application does not wake up, it only starts when I visit "/hangfire" endpoint.

How do I make this work? I've read a workaround about making a scheduled task to hit the endpoint every hour or something, but then why use Hangfire in the first place? I am trying to get rid of task scheduler tasks.

Please help.

[HernJer]

i have 4 instances running (DEV,QA,UAT,PROD) for over a year. The only thing i did was set IIS Start Mode = AlwaysRunning and Preload Enabled = True.