# Building / preparing space takes forever

**URL:** <https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/building-preparing-space-takes-forever/134122>\
**Category:** Spaces\
**Created:** [January 3, 2025, 3:15pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/building-preparing-space-takes-forever/134122 "2025-01-03T15:15:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![anon14814422](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/65b543/32.png) [@anon14814422](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/anon14814422)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2025, 3:15pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/building-preparing-space-takes-forever/134122/1 "2025-01-03T15:15:22Z")

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My space either builds forever or prepares forever:

> **[Dd Shooter - a Hugging Face Space by audiostein](https://huggingface.co/spaces/audiostein/dd-space)**
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> Discover amazing ML apps made by the community

There is no warning/error logging or other notification. Several delete and create attempts result in the same issue. Moving it to paid plan also does not help. Is there any support?

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**Author:** ![John6666](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/john6666/32/27664_2.png) [@John6666](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/John6666)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 2:52am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/building-preparing-space-takes-forever/134122/2 "2025-01-04T02:52:56Z")

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There are quite a few things that are not explicitly prohibited in Spaces. If a particular library is included, Spaces may not start without question, and in the worst case scenario, it may even lead to your account being banned.

> [@Docker Space Receives Seemingly Random TERM](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/docker-space-receives-seemingly-random-term/133530):
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> Hello HF! I’m trying to build a somewhat complicated Docker space and I believe I’m in the home stretch, but I’m running into a bit of a snag in the longevity of the spaces. [The app](https://huggingface.co/spaces/benjamin-paine/anachrovox-emerald) (currently set the private until this gets fixed, source code below) launches several internal port listeners and uses an nginx proxy to listen on the standard 7860, using supervisord to run the nginx and server processes. After the initial space build, it will open up fine in the browser, and everything will load…

Anyway, since I don’t know anything about the source (almost in Secrets…), I can only talk about it in general terms…  
Also, there is nothing special that paid users are given preferential treatment for in Spaces.😅

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**Author:** ![anon14814422](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/65b543/32.png) [@anon14814422](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/anon14814422)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 4:38pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/building-preparing-space-takes-forever/134122/3 "2025-01-12T16:38:56Z")

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Thanks for letting me know. The secrets only contain addresses and keys, which shouldn’t cause problems. So, I got the repo running reliably on another platform with better performance at lower costs. See here:

> **[DD-Shooter by Audiostein](http://www.audiostein.com/dd-shooter.html)**
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> DD-Shooter - The world's 1st text prompt drum sample generator.

Thank you anyways.

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**Author:** ![anon14814422](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/65b543/32.png) [@anon14814422](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/anon14814422)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 4:41pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/building-preparing-space-takes-forever/134122/4 "2025-01-12T16:41:50Z")

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Thanks for letting me know. The secrets only contain addresses and keys, which shouldn’t cause problems. So, I got the repo running reliably on another platform with better performance at lower costs than with HF spaces.