Hosting
How hosting is billed, what happens when the credit runs out, and how to take a site down.
How does hosting billing work?
Hosting is billed pay-as-you-go based on usage. Every paid plan includes a monthly hosting allowance covered by your subscription — you are only charged for usage beyond it. Pro includes $10 a month and Power includes $25 a month, covering compute, database, CDN and storage.
Free accounts have no recurring allowance. New accounts get a one-time $3 hosting credit, which is enough to put a first app live. Older credit-ladder plans all carry the same flat $10, whatever their credit tier.
Where can I see my hosting usage?
On the hosting dashboard. You can also just ask your AI assistant — it can read your hosting and Lambda usage through the connector and suggest ways to bring costs down.
What drives hosting costs up?
- Large images and video served on every page load
- Polling loops that hit your backend far more often than they need to
- Runaway client-side effects that fire requests in a tight loop
If something unusual shows up, Floot temporarily caps that app's concurrency to keep it and everything around it healthy, lifts the cap automatically once traffic settles, and the team follows up if it keeps happening — see Reliability and limits.
What happens if I run out of hosting credit?
Your app is taken offline. Your data is kept, but the *.floot.app subdomain is released and can be claimed by someone else, so coming back is a fresh publish rather than a switch flip. Any custom domain attached to it is removed first.
How much warning you get
A paid plan in good standing gets a 3-day grace window with warning emails first. Free accounts, cancelled plans, plans already pending cancellation, and cards that have been failing for more than two weeks are taken down with no grace period at all. Top up from the hosting dashboard before you get there.
How do I unpublish my site?
Ask your assistant to unpublish the app. That call never counts against your daily build actions — deliberately, so a free account that has hit its cap can always free its published-app slot.
You can also do it yourself: open your project on floot.com, click Publish, then the cog icon next to your subdomain, and use Delete subdomain under Danger Zone. If a custom domain is attached, that button stays disabled until you remove the domain first.
Either way the subdomain is released and someone else can publish to it, so pick the name again quickly if you plan to come back.