BREAKING: Supabase MINOR 🔴 workarounds inside [qmnmx4p35576]

Supabase is down: Project create and pause errors in eu-west-1. Immediate workarounds for indie hackers.

BREAKING: Supabase eu-west-1 Project Create/Pause Errors — Workarounds Inside

Status: Investigating | Severity: Minor | Affected Region: eu-west-1 only | Last Updated: NOW

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What's Down Right Now

Supabase's eu-west-1 region is experiencing errors when:

Creating new projects

Pausing existing projects

Who is affected: Indie hackers and teams with infrastructure in eu-west-1. If your projects are in us-east-1, us-west-1, or ap-southeast-1, you're unaffected.

Current status: Existing projects remain accessible. Read/write operations appear normal. Only provisioning operations are blocked.

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Immediate Workarounds (Do These Now)

If you need to create a project TODAY:

1. Switch regions temporarily. In your Supabase dashboard, select us-east-1 instead of eu-west-1 for new projects. You can migrate data later if needed. 2. Use the Supabase CLI to script creation if you have credentials already configured—some users report partial CLI success. 3. Wait if non-urgent. ETA unknown, but this is typically resolved within 2-4 hours for Supabase incidents.

If you need to pause a project:

Don't pause right now unless critical. Paused projects will still incur storage costs.

Document which projects you intended to pause—resume this immediately once eu-west-1 recovers.

If your app is already running on eu-west-1:

No action needed. Existing connections and queries are working normally.

Monitor your logs for increased error rates.

Have a failover region ready (mentally) if this extends beyond 6 hours.

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How to Check If You're Affected

1. Check your region: Dashboard → Project Settings → API Settings → Region 2. Try a simple operation: Run a basic SELECT query in the SQL Editor. If it works, your data layer is fine. 3. Test project creation: Attempt to create a test project in eu-west-1. If you get a timeout or 5xx error, you've confirmed the issue. 4. Check Supabase status: https://status.supabase.com (real-time updates)

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Alternative Tools (If You Need Redundancy)

For risk-averse indie hackers, consider these for new projects:

Firebase Realtime Database — Managed, simple, mature

PlanetScale (MySQL) — Great for structured data

Neon (Postgres) — Postgres-native, serverless, good uptime record

Railway or Render — Full-stack hosting with integrated databases

Note: We're not recommending abandoning Supabase. This is a minor regional incident, not a systemic failure.

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How to Monitor Recovery

1. Watch the status page: https://status.supabase.com — refresh every 15 minutes 2. Join their Discord: #incidents channel updates faster than email 3. Monitor your own dashboards: Set up simple uptime checks using Pingdom or UptimeRobot pointing to your eu-west-1 API 4. Follow @supabase on Twitter: Major updates posted there first

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What You Should Do Right Now

✅ Check if you're affected (5 minutes)

✅ If urgent: move to us-east-1 (10 minutes)

✅ If not urgent: grab coffee, check back in 2 hours

✅ Update your team Slack: "FYI, eu-west-1 has minor provisioning issues"

✅ Don't panic. Supabase has a solid track record.

This is partial disruption, not a data loss event. Your projects are safe.

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Next update in 30 minutes. Stay sharp, builders. 🚀