Daily hosting limit
A cap on what your published apps can spend on hosting in one day, so a bug or a traffic spike pauses your apps instead of running up your bill.
A bug, a page that keeps reloading data, or a sudden traffic spike can run up hosting fast. The daily hosting limit caps what your published apps can spend in one day. If they reach it, they pause for the rest of the day instead of running up your bill.
What counts
- Only published apps. The preview you build in never counts and is never paused.
- All your published apps together. The limit is per account, not per app.
- Server time, database and bandwidth, the same hosting your hosting dashboard shows.
- Your day is the 24 hours from your account's daily reset hour, the same day your daily build-action limit uses. The setting shows when it resets.
What happens when you get close
- A heads-up first
- On a paid plan, when your published apps reach 80% of your limit, we email you, so you can raise it before anything stops.
- Then a pause
- At the limit, your published apps pause until your day resets. Visitors can't use them until then, and their scheduled jobs and background tasks pause too. We email you, and the editor shows a banner. Your projects, their previews and your code keep working, and nothing in your code changes.
- Back in minutes
- Raise or remove the limit and your apps come back within a few minutes. You don't need to publish again.
It's an estimate
Today's figure is based on usage up to a few minutes ago, so the day's bill can land slightly over your limit. If your apps are using hosting fast enough to pass the limit within minutes, they can pause just before reaching it.
Your limit
- Free plan: a fixed limit you can't change. Upgrade to set your own; upgrading also ends a pause right away.
- Paid plans: a limit of your own. A new plan starts at $5 a day, and you can change it any time.
Change your limit
Open Plan & usage → Hosting. The card under your monthly hosting shows your limit, what your published apps have used today, and a button to change it. Any amount from $1 works up to $10 a day on Pro (and older credit plans) or $25 on Power. A higher limit, or no limit, needs hosting auto-reload on, because past that point the hosting is paid from your card.
- Turning hosting auto-reload off brings a limit you set above your plan's amount back down to it.
- Only you can change your limit. Your assistant can't, so a runaway app can't lift it either.
The daily limit is separate from your monthly hosting allowance and balance. See Reliability and limits for those.