# Pausing or Deleting Your Render Service

## How to Pause Your Render Web Service

Render does not currently support "pausing" a web service, but you can: - Manually scale to zero: - Go to your Render dashboard. - Select your service. - Click the "Manual Scaling" option and set the instance count to 0 (if available on your plan). - Suspend or delete the service: - In the service settings, choose "Suspend" (if available) or "Delete Service" to stop all charges. - You can always redeploy from your GitHub repo later.

## When to Pause or Delete

- Pause/suspend if you want to keep your config but stop running the app.
- Delete if you want to avoid all charges and don't need the current deployment.

## Security Note

- If you leave the service running, monitor logs for suspicious activity.
- Use strong admin passwords and keep secrets out of the repo.
- Consider enabling authentication and limiting public endpoints.

## Next Steps

- Once Dev is stable, redeploy to Render for further testing.
- Update this doc as Render adds new features or your workflow changes.