Why is railway so expensive?
Railway costs 10$/gb of ram/month and 20$/vcpu/month. This seems a lot higher than just deploying something yourself. Is there any reason other than how easy it is to deploy for which you should use railway?
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you dont have to give a damn about anything else
deploy, it work
You pay for their service (ease of use) - thats their business model
The same infra can be purchased/rented way cheaper from aws for an example
But you have to get your hands dirty there
U throw code at it and it figures everything out for you and the ability to have a config as code is cool too
Maintaining stuff is also a pain railway does all that for ya
If u can and want to deploy ur own server it will always be cheaper
If u want to test out a poc or try out like a full set of services to test it's blazingly fast to get up and running
take a look at hop.io's ignite product. its as good as railway if not better to deploy docker containers.
and way cheaper if i remember correctly
woah never seen someone recommend hop before
:o
hop is really nice
idk if u know of Ali but I’ve been living with him the past 2 weeks
their real-time stuff is v cool
yoo nice
Isn't it still private beta
idk
yes
Yeah
getting an invite is easy enough
ah I see
can I get an invite? 😄
i'll dm you
thanks!
that pricing seems a lot more reasonable
but yeah i get it, railway is just simple
Railway is especially expensive, when you have a broken build and forget about it... aaand that's how my free budget burned up in the ether.... pufff, gone....
I'm using cockroachlabs and happy so far. I depleted my Railway credits without even actively using the app lol
i use cockroachdb cloud for my postgres but for actual app deployment i have been using vercel since i mostly make webapps, recently i have been looking into rust (because its ⚡ blazingly fast ⚡) so i have to deploy somewhere else, thats why i asked about railway, since its what theo recommended
oh yeah, it's cockroach + vercel in this case
not sure for Rust, I just know that railway ain't cool
i might use the free tier of railway and see how quickly it depletes, it prob wont use that much bcs my rust apps have not gone over 10mb of ram nor 2% memory usage, so it is fine for now, but i do plan on using quite heavy packages later so when i need to, i will switch to something like ec2 or anything really
ec2 is not cheap as per my understanding
cheaper than railway
I used to have a simple website which didn't have a lot of traffic and I always depleted the free tier and got charged like 25 or 30 bucks monthly
prolly
if you dont have traffic, lower the instance size