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by mcintyre1994 1777 days ago
I'm quite surprised that Bubble doesn't handle high traffic for you (no posts are loading for me and the site took ages to render anything), because I can't imagine that's something you can sort of plug in yourself somehow. Fair enough if they didn't actually intend for you to deploy or market your app and it was just an excellent prototyping tool, but their website does say "empowering entrepreneurs to build production-ready web apps." Surely you have to do something to help people's production ready apps serve production traffic if you're in this space.

I guess it's to do with their pricing tier. At $115/mo you get "3 units of server capacity", I assume you get 1 below that since they don't say. So the free tier has Bubble branding and insufficient hardware for the apps you can build, which seems a bit of an awkward marketing situation I guess.

To be fair their "Production" tier at $475/mo has "10 units of server capacity". So maybe they do empower entrepeneurs who want to spend $475/mo on hosting to build production-ready web apps. Which is certainly cheaper than a dev team if their code and 10x server capacity works for most apps.