Would it be possible to start on a Personal or hobby plan until my site is ready, and then move onto the professional plan once I am ready to go live?

[JonL]

Check this out:

[New Feature] Ability to test capacity on your app for free

Hello, We know that capacity can sometime be seen as an abstract concept and it may not be easy to test the impact of adding some units to your app. We just added a way for you to test adding capacity units to your app, so that you can experience the speed boost. You can add from 1 to 5 units if you’re on a professional plan and above, and add 2 units if you’re on a personal plan (so that you can see how it would work on a professional plan). [25%20PM] When you use such a boost, the addition…

“and add 2 units if you’re on a personal plan (so that you can see how it would work on a professional plan”

Focus on optimising your app as much as possible before thinking on capacity. Because a lot of the performance issues that are mentioned around this forum are often related to non optimised creations.

You need to design for bubble. Know how Bubble works and exploit that. There are a lot of forum posts on optimisation. Some of them where Bubble developers have been very active and providing constant tips.

You will appreciate it. Your users will appreciate it. And the Main Bubble Cluster will also appreciate it

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