Preview speed · Owned host
Bolt is great at a fast in-browser loop. Production is a host you control, secrets outside the preview, and rollback you can name. This page compares those mechanisms — not a migrate story. Keep what the preview proved. Own the run when uptime matters.
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Bolt preview optimizes for speed in the browser. Owned hosting optimizes for uptime, secrets you hold, and a rollback you can name. You keep the UI the preview proved. You still owe a real host when strangers depend on the product staying up.
Where preview≠prod confuses teams
Preview speed is real. So are missing rollback, shared secrets, and host limits.
Cold start, secrets, and scale differ on an owned host.
Name Git, host, and dual-run.
Different hosts, different risks — keep FAQs native.
Get-off is the leave narrative. This page is mechanism compare.
Honest split
Both can coexist during dual-run.
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While ownership moves.
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Fresh secrets.
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Preview is not the proof.
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Write the end date.
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Fast UI iteration and prompt experiments. Secrets, customer data, and the canonical promote path belong on the owned host. Dual-run until smoke matches.
Cold install on your runner, host-held secrets, Auth on your origin, backup restore, and a rollback artifact you can promote without the preview session.
Export or sync the tree to org Git, remap secrets, point Auth at the destination, dual-run primary journeys, then cut DNS. Harden first when layers are green.
Low-risk demos, internal testers, and no compliance demand for owned hosting — with a written end date and no paid stranger traffic that requires rollback you cannot name.
Bring how you promote today. We split preview speed from owned uptime — without a vanity rewrite.
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