Understanding Capacity (Outdated)

Edit: My bad, this was a mix up

Was browsing the manual and I found some information on Capacity.

On certain Bubble pricing tiers (namely Free and Personal), the app will have “Basic” server capacity, which means it’s sharing the same computing resources with all other Bubble apps of these tiers. When an app is upgraded to the “Professional” and “Production” tiers, the app gets dedicated or “reserved” units of capacity which are reserved for that app. When capacity is exceeded, the app is rate-limited; again in non-technical terms, it means the app won’t be able to do as much “stuff” in a given period of time, and users’ requests on the app will effectively be slowed down. Thus, having more capacity generally means that the app can do more “stuff” if a lot of “stuff” is going on.

You can find more information in the manual: https://manual.bubble.io/help-guides/maintaining-an-application/performance-and-scaling#general-principles-and-tips-about-performance

Not sure when this was added but props to the manual team!

Regardless it still sucks that there’s different tiers to capacity. Looks like I’ve got to up my plan for an app. I am still upset that this was not released with an announcement.

I think this might be outdated as per the concept of WU pricing and that capacity is supposed to be no longer a thing for Bubble apps…at least the tier names are outdated

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It does say updated 9 months ago. I hope you’re right (it does look like you are) but then it will mean that Bubble hasn’t explained how Capacity applies with the WU plans.

My bad i mixed up capacity and Bandwidth.

My mind is always fuzzy and plays tricks on me daily, so I might be wrong, but I believe when they announced the WU pricing structure, the main benefit they touted was capacity no longer is a thing and apps are never throttled due to capacity.

Yeah that’s what they said

Yep you’re correct. Capacity is not a thing anymore. I wanted clarification for Bandwidth but got it mixed up with Capacity while reading the manual.

@fede.bubble Maybe that section on capacity should be removed?

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They should mark it depricated

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I’ll share with the team

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