Pausing and resuming projects
You can put a project to sleep when you don’t need it running, then wake it when you do. Pausing frees the server while keeping all your data, so nothing is lost.
What “sleeping” means
Section titled “What “sleeping” means”A sleeping project has its container stopped: its CPU and memory are freed, but its disk and data are kept. The project card shows a Sleeping badge, and anyone who visits the site sees a short “this project is sleeping” page instead of your app. A sleeping project doesn’t wake from visitor traffic — you wake it yourself from the dashboard.
Pause and wake up
Section titled “Pause and wake up”On a live project card, select Pause to put the project to sleep. On a sleeping card, select Wake up — your app is back in about ten seconds. Starting a chat with AI Assist on a sleeping project wakes it too.
Pausing and waking are available on every plan, and only the project’s owner can do them.
Idle auto-pause on the Free plan
Section titled “Idle auto-pause on the Free plan”On the Free plan, a project can be paused automatically after a period of inactivity, to free up shared resources. Paid plans stay on and are never paused automatically. Whatever put a project to sleep, you can always wake it yourself.
Eviction on the Free plan
Section titled “Eviction on the Free plan”A Free-plan project that stays asleep is eventually removed for good, so resources aren’t held indefinitely. After 30 days asleep, the project is permanently deleted. As the deadline nears, its card shows a countdown — the days left, then Last day, then Deletion pending.
To keep a project, don’t leave it asleep that long: waking it, upgrading your plan, or signing in to your dashboard all stop a pending deletion. If a project is removed this way, its card moves to the Deleted list with a Restore action that redeploys it from scratch.
Related
Section titled “Related”- Core concepts — what each project state means.
- Your projects — where sleeping and deleted projects appear.
- Deleting and restoring projects — restore a project that was removed.