Netlify for hosting

Bolt now includes built-in hosting and custom domain management. Previously, these features were handled through Netlify. All new projects created in Bolt are published using Bolt hosting by default, though you can choose to publish new projects to Netlify instead. For your existing projects published to Netlify, you can either:

• Keep publishing them to Netlify, or
• Switch to Bolt hosting

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Connect Bolt to your Netlify account

A Netlify account is required to connect Bolt to Netlify. If you don’t have one, sign up for one. Follow these steps to connect your Netlify account to Bolt:

1. Log in to Bolt.
2. Hover over the left side of the screen, then click Settings.
3. Click Applications under Personal Settings.
4. Click Connect in the Netlify section.
5. Log in to Netlify as prompted.
6. Follow Netlify’s steps to complete the process.

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Publish new projects to Netlify instead of Bolt hosting

While Bolt hosting is the default hosting option provided when you choose to publish a project, you can also choose to connect a Netlify account and publish your project to Netlify hosting instead. To switch a project from Bolt to Netlify hosting, two things are required:

• You must first connect Bolt to your Netlify account as described in the section above.
• You must not have already published your project to Bolt hosting. (There is no going back; you’ll have to create a new, unpublished copy of the project if you’ve already published it to Bolt hosting.)

To switch from Bolt to Netlify hosting and publish your site, follow these steps:

1. Click the gear icon near the top-right of your screen to open Project settings.
2. Click Domains & Hosting.
3. Use the drop-down to select Netlify for your hosting provider.
4. Close the Setting window.
5. Click Publish in the top-right corner of your screen.
6. Click the second Publish button that appears.
7. Wait about a minute for Bolt to deploy your site.
8. Click the link that appears in the chat window to open your site (published to Netlify) in your browser.

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Unpublish a project with Netlify hosting

Want to take down a site you’ve published with Netlify hosting? No problem, just follow these steps:

1. Click the gear icon near the top-right of your screen to open Project settings.
2. Click Domains & hosting.
3. Click the red Unpublish text.
4. Confirm by clicking Unpublish again.

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Switch your project from Netlify to Bolt hosting

To switch your project from Netlify to Bolt hosting, follow the steps below:

1. Unpublish your project if it is currently published to Netlify.
2. Click the gear icon near the top-right of your screen to open Project settings.
3. Click Domains & Hosting.
4. Use the drop-down to select between Bolt Cloud for your hosting provider.

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Managing projects published to Netlify before August 14, 2025

If you’ve published your site to Netlify prior to August 14, 2025, you have the option of continuing to use Netlify, or you can switch to Bolt hosting. How you manage a project published before August 14, 2025 depends on how it was set up:

• Published by Bolt to a Netlify domain with no Netlify account connected: Bolt created a public copy of your site on a Netlify URL when you originally published it, but you have never connected a Netlify account to Bolt as an integration.
• Published by Bolt to your own connected Netlify account: Bolt created a public copy of your site on a Netlify URL connected to your account via the Bolt/Netlify integration.

The following sections provide information on how to switch to Bolt hosting, unpublish a project, or add a custom domain.

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Switch a project to Bolt hosting originally published to Netlify prior to August 14, 2025

Switching a project published to Netlify before August 14, 2025 works the same whether or not you had connected a Netlify account. Follow the steps below:

1. Click the gear icon near the top-right of your screen to open Project settings.
2. Click Domains & Hosting.
3. Click Switch to Bolt hosting.
4. Click Confirm hosting switch. Bolt will begin moving your hosting.
5. Wait about a minute for Bolt to finish. You’ll see a notification that your site was deployed to a bolt.host domain.

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Unpublish a project originally published to Netlify prior to August 14, 2025

If you need to remove an older Netlify deployment, how you can do it depends on whether or not you had a Netlify integration connected when the site was published:

• If your project was published to Netlify by Bolt without a Netlify integration set up on your account, contact Bolt support.
• If your site was connected to your Netlify account when it was published, you must handle its removal from your Netlify dashboard. To learn more, see Netlify’s article on Deploys, rollback, and deletion.

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Add a domain to a project originally published to Netlify prior to August 14, 2025

For projects published before August 14, 2025, you can keep working on them and publishing updates to their Netlify URL as usual. However, you won’t be able to add a custom domain to these projects through the Bolt chatbox or project settings. To add a custom domain to a Bolt project published on Netlify prior to August 14, 2025, you’ll need to either:

• Connect a custom domain through Netlify, or
• Switch the project to Bolt hosting, then add a custom domain in Project settings.

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Limitations

If you plan to continue using Netlify, you may want to understand more about the platform and the type of software it’s designed to host. For example, Netlify can’t host your database or a traditional backend.

• Read Bolt’s Supported technologies | Recommended stack and architecture
• What is Netlify?: Netlify’s own description of their purpose and features.
• Intro to Composable Architecture: this is a big topic, but it’s worth exploring, as it helps you understand what Netlify can and can’t support, and how to build for publishing to Netlify.

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Publish manually

You can also publish your project to Netlify without connecting your Bolt account.

1. Run the project build command (usually npm run build).
2. Click Download to download the project.
3. Follow Netlify’s Manual deploy instructions.

Netlify provides a video tutorial:

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Disconnect your Netlify integration

If you’d like to disconnect your Netlify integration, follow the steps below:

1. Log in to Bolt.
2. Hover over the left side of the screen, then click Settings.
3. Click Applications under Personal Settings.
4. Click Disconnect in the Netlify section.
5. Log in to your Netlify account and remove Bolt from your authorized applications:
   1. Click your profile > User settings > OAuth.
   2. Under Authorized applications, click the menu for the Bolt entry.
   3. Click Revoke access.

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