# The testing environment seems to shut down after a while

**URL:** <https://www.five.org/t/the-testing-environment-seems-to-shut-down-after-a-while/563>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [July 17, 2025, 11:26am UTC](https://www.five.org/t/the-testing-environment-seems-to-shut-down-after-a-while/563 "2025-07-17T11:26:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![JeanXXIV](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/www.five.org/jeanxxiv/32/548_2.png) [@JeanXXIV](https://www.five.org/u/JeanXXIV)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 11:26am UTC](https://www.five.org/t/the-testing-environment-seems-to-shut-down-after-a-while/563/1 "2025-07-17T11:26:58Z")

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Hello, I deployed my application on the testing environment, but the day after, this environment is shut down. I know that the development environment shuts down after a couple of hours, but the testing environment usually runs without interruption.  
Is there an issue here, or something I did wrong? Thank you.

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**Author:** ![Jo-Anne](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/www.five.org/jo-anne/32/45_2.png) [@Jo-Anne](https://www.five.org/u/Jo-Anne)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 11:15pm UTC](https://www.five.org/t/the-testing-environment-seems-to-shut-down-after-a-while/563/2 "2025-07-17T23:15:04Z")

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Hi Jean,

You haven’t done anything wrong! Our testing deployments will shut down now after 4 hours of inactivity and you will need to redeploy it. Your production deployment will not shut down, it will continually run.

Kind regards,  
Jo

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**Author:** ![JeanXXIV](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/www.five.org/jeanxxiv/32/548_2.png) [@JeanXXIV](https://www.five.org/u/JeanXXIV)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2025, 12:26am UTC](https://www.five.org/t/the-testing-environment-seems-to-shut-down-after-a-while/563/3 "2025-07-18T00:26:16Z")

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Okay. Yes, for my use, four hours is enough for a test environment. Thanks! BTW is there any documentation showing all the differences between versions 2.7 and 2.9?

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**Author:** ![Jo-Anne](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/www.five.org/jo-anne/32/45_2.png) [@Jo-Anne](https://www.five.org/u/Jo-Anne)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 6:41am UTC](https://www.five.org/t/the-testing-environment-seems-to-shut-down-after-a-while/563/4 "2025-07-21T06:41:01Z")

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Hi Jean,

The release of 2.9 was to improve our efficiency of running in the cloud so there isn’t too much I can provide you documentation wise, please also refer to an email I sent you.

Kind regards,  
Jo