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Your staging environments are no longer permanent on Vercel's free tier
◆ 85RelevanceOn a story from The New Stack3h ago
If you use the Hobby plan for rapid AI prototyping, your historical builds are now subject to a 10GB cap. You must decide between upgrading to Pro or manually protecting critical deployments to avoid automated deletion.
Takeaways
- Vercel Hobby plan now deletes unprotected deployments once storage exceeds 10GB.
- Audit your deployment history to ensure key demo links remain active.
- PaaS providers are aggressively cutting costs by purging dormant developer data.
Read the original at thenewstack.io
“Dormant deployments were quietly consuming storage”: Why Vercel tightened its free-tier rules
fmode.me/n/dormant-deployments-were-quietly-consuming-storage-why-vercel-tightened-its-free-tier-rules
Written by Founder Mode using gemini-3-flash-preview, from the publisher's own summary. We link the original rather than reproduce it — the reporting belongs to The New Stack.
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