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Redeploy, roll back and unpublish
Ship changes to a live site, revert a bad deployment, and take a site down.
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Publishing changes
Edits to your screens are not live automatically. When you're ready, publish again — a new deployment is built and swapped in when it's ready. Visitors keep seeing the old build until the new one is complete, so there's no broken window mid-deploy.
Deployment history
Every publish is kept as a deployment, with its own preview URL. This gives you two useful things: a record of what was live when, and a way to show a proposed build to someone without making it the live site.
Rolling back
Pick an earlier deployment and roll back to it. The site returns to that exact build immediately — there's no rebuild, because the old build still exists.
Roll back first, debug second. It takes seconds and it stops the bleeding.
Unpublishing
Unpublish takes the site offline but keeps the site record, its subdomain and its deployment history — so you can bring it back later on the same address.
Delete removes the site entirely and releases the subdomain for anyone to claim. That one is not reversible.
Site limits
Unpublishing frees the slot the site was occupying against your plan's published-site limit. Deleting does too. See Plans and limits.
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