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Project paused

A quiet week, then a client demo. Your app shows errors. Your database dashboard says 'Project paused'.

This answers: Why was my Supabase project paused? No coding needed. 2 quick decisions.

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Why was my Supabase project paused?

Free projects are paused after a period of inactivity to save resources. A paused project rejects requests until restored. For an app real people use, move to a paid plan, which is not paused, and keep your own regular export of the data regardless of the plan.

Trail of the bug
  1. Browser
  2. Your server
  3. Database

Breaks at Database: Idle free project paused

How it works

What you get back after a 4pm mistakePoint-in-time recovery
Backup 00:00Mistake 16:0024:00

Data lost: 16 hours

A daily backup restores midnight. Everything written between midnight and 4pm, sixteen hours of orders, is gone.

Why AI tools write this bug

Prototypes start on free tiers, and nothing reminds you to upgrade when the prototype quietly becomes a product.

How to fix it

  1. Restore the project from the dashboard.

3 more steps, and a prompt that checks your own app for this bug. Part of Pro.

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Common questions

Can I keep a free project awake with a ping script?
It avoids pausing but not the other free-tier limits. Upgrade once customers depend on the app.

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More on this trail

Data you can lose: Agents that reset production, backups that are a day old, rollbacks that break.

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How to fix it

  1. Restore the project from the dashboard.

3 more steps, and a prompt that checks your own app for this bug. Part of Pro.

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