Netlify site paused: credits ran out, get it back online
When a Netlify free team uses its 300 monthly credits, every project pauses and shows Site not available until the next billing cycle unless you upgrade to the $9 a month Personal plan. To get a static site back up today for free with no signup and no account, drop your HTML file, ZIP up to 25 MB, or website folder into ship.page and get a live HTTPS link in seconds with no credit limits or bandwidth caps.
A file. A folder. A fresh start.
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- Netlify free monthly cap before every site pauses
- 300 credits
- Netlify Personal plan to unpause before the reset
- $9/mo
- ship.page free plan with no credits or bandwidth caps
- Free forever
- Free upload limit on ship.page (100 MB unpacked)
- 25 MB ZIP
How to put a paused Netlify site back online on ship.page
Locate your built static files
Find the publish folder on your computer that you deployed to Netlify, or rebuild your project locally so the final folder has an index.html file at the top alongside your CSS, JavaScript, and images.
Zip larger folders if needed
Browser folder uploads go up in a single request of at most 10 MB (roughly 7 MB of files). If your site has more than that, compress the folder into a .zip file up to 25 MB (100 MB unpacked) on the free plan; a single top folder inside the ZIP is unwrapped automatically.
Drop the folder, ZIP, or HTML file onto ship.page
Drag your website folder, .zip file, or single .html file up to 10 MB into the uploader at the top of this page, or paste raw HTML. No account or credit card is needed, and the free plan allows up to 100 files per upload and 10 deploys a minute.
Share the new link or claim the page
Your site is live in seconds on its own HTTPS subdomain, and the success screen gives you a QR code with a PNG download. You can publish without an account, or claim the page with a free account (Google or email link, no card) to manage it from a dashboard.
Three ways to handle a paused Netlify site
| Option | Cost | When the site is back | Catch |
|---|---|---|---|
| Upload to ship.page | Free forever ($0) | In seconds on a new URL | Static files only, new subdomain URL, no custom domains |
| Wait for the refresh | $0 | Next monthly billing cycle | Every project stays offline showing Site not available until then |
| Upgrade to Personal | $9 a month | As soon as you upgrade | Paid monthly subscription with a 1,000-credit monthly pool |
Why your Netlify site shows Site not available
Netlify gives free teams 300 credits a month with a hard limit and no way to buy one-time top-ups. When your team uses all 300 credits, Netlify pauses every project in the account at once: web requests stop, form submissions fail, new deploys are blocked, and visitors see a Site not available message.
Two things spend credits fastest on the free plan. Every production deploy costs 15 credits, and bandwidth costs 20 credits per GB (deploy previews are free). Twenty production deploys in a month, or 15 GB of visitor traffic, uses up the entire 300-credit allowance.
- 300 monthly credits across the whole team on the free plan.
- 15 credits per production deploy (deploy previews cost 0 credits).
- 20 credits per GB of bandwidth served across your sites.
- Every project on the team pauses together when credits hit zero.
Wait for the reset, upgrade on Netlify, or move the build
According to Netlify documentation, free accounts cannot purchase extra credit packs. If you need your existing name.netlify.app address to start working again right away, upgrading to a paid Netlify plan is the only way to unpause it before the billing cycle resets: Personal is $9 a month for 1,000 credits, and Pro is $20 a month for 3,000 credits.
If the site is low urgency, you can do nothing and wait for the next monthly billing cycle, when the 300 credits refresh automatically. If you need visitors to see your static site today without paying $9 a month and can share a new link, you can host a ZIP file or folder on ship.page in seconds.
Tip: If you are comparing other free hosts before your next billing cycle, see our guides to Netlify alternatives and Netlify Drop compared with ship.page.
What works when you move a static build to ship.page
ship.page hosts static files with no credit system and no bandwidth limits on every plan. HTML, CSS, JavaScript, images, fonts, audio, video, WebAssembly, and JSON all work, and the free plan is free forever with no trial, no credit card, no ads, and unlimited uploads.
Before moving a site over, check how your pages and forms are wired up so nothing breaks on the new link.
- No server code: PHP, Node.js, Python, databases, and WordPress do not run, and HTML forms need a third-party form service.
- Page paths: a file saved as about.html opens at /about.html, while the short /about path only works when the file is about/index.html.
- Client-side routing: there is no single-page-app fallback and no custom 404 page, so React, Vue, or Svelte apps should use hash routes (#/about).
- Case-sensitive paths and raw files: file paths must match uppercase and lowercase letters, and pre-compressed .br or .gz builds need compression turned off or a JavaScript decompressor.
- Privacy and domains: no plan offers custom domains, and every uploaded page is sent with a noindex header so search engines leave it out while anyone with the link can open it.
When to stay on Netlify vs when to use ship.page Pro
Stay on Netlify and upgrade to the $9 a month Personal plan if you must keep your existing URL live, need search engine indexing, or rely on Netlify features like built-in form handling. If you just want the cheapest website hosting for a static build you can share by link or QR code, ship.page's free plan covers it at $0.
On ship.page, a free page cannot be updated in place (uploading a new version creates a new link) and shows a small Hosted on ship.page badge that visitors can close. Pro is $4 a month (billed monthly, cancel anytime, no yearly plan): Pro pages don't expire while you're on Pro (or let you pick any expiry from 60 seconds), can be updated or edited without changing the link, remove the badge, add password protection, raise limits to 100 MB ZIPs (400 MB unpacked), 10,000 files per upload, and 120 deploys a minute, and include up to 5 custom subdomains like yourname.ship.place (3 to 40 characters of a-z, 0-9, and single hyphens) that you can point at any of your pages.
Questions
Why did my Netlify site get paused and say Site not available?
Netlify's free plan includes 300 credits per month across your team, with production deploys costing 15 credits and bandwidth costing 20 credits per GB. When your team uses all 300 credits, Netlify pauses every project in the account and shows Site not available until the next monthly billing cycle.
Can I buy extra credits on the Netlify free plan?
No. The Netlify free plan has a hard limit of 300 monthly credits and does not allow credit top-ups. To unpause your Netlify projects before the monthly reset, you have to upgrade to a paid plan such as Personal for $9 a month (1,000 credits) or Pro for $20 a month (3,000 credits).
How can I put my paused Netlify site back online for free right now?
Take your built static site folder or compress it into a ZIP file up to 25 MB (100 MB unpacked, up to 100 files) and drop it onto ship.page. You get a new HTTPS link in seconds with no signup, no credit card, and no bandwidth limits.
Does ship.page use monthly credits or pause sites for bandwidth?
No. ship.page does not use a credit system, and no plan meters bandwidth or caps the total number of uploads.
How do I manage or update a site I upload to ship.page?
You can publish without an account, and then claim the page with a free account using Google or an email link (no credit card) to manage it from a dashboard. A free page cannot be updated in place so a new upload gets a new link, while the $4 a month Pro plan lets you re-upload or edit a page and keep the same link, and Pro pages don't expire while you're on Pro.
Can I deploy to ship.page from the command line or GitHub?
Yes. Beyond dragging files into the browser, developers can publish with one curl command (POST https://ship.page/deploy), the MCP server at https://ship.page/mcp, or the GitHub Action.
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