Questions about the service
I am the founder of a startup with quite a bit of users/traffic and I am considering moving to railway on the
team plan, but I have a few questions.
I don't really understand how railway internally manages my apps, and I'm struggling to understand the CPU model.
1.) On the developer plan is says 1 shared CPU while on the team it says 32 vCPUs per container. Do you differentiate between CPU and vCPU?
2.) If I go into my account I can see the developer goes up to 8 vCPUs per container. Is this an error in the pricing page?
3.) What does up to mean? what does up to 32 vCPUs per container mean? Does that mean each container runs exactly 1 instance of it and is guaranteed to get 32 vCPUs at any time or does it spawn multiple instances depending on the load, potentially on multiple nodes?
4.) Is my app highly available?
5.) Is there a way to select the DC where to host my app?
6.) I need to host a postgres database with a quite a bit of traffic on it but I heard that your database are not very reliable at the moment, is this true?
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Answering to the best of my ability, i’ll tag in the team for the rest.
1) Still unsure why it says 1CPU on dev plan.
2) Dev plan provides 8GB RAM and 8vCPU per container.
3) Your app will scale vertically if needed. Your first point is correct. Railway does not scale horizontally.
4) Not sure what you mean by this. Once hosted, your app will be available 24/7. The team is currently working on deployments to multiple regions. Atm Railway is limited to GCP-US-West1, though users can connect from anywhere.
6) Reliable, yes. There are some things that could be improved. General recommendation is to host your db elsewhere.
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Does my container get replaced during resize?
No, your container only gets reset if you push a new commit or update an env variable
or hit the restart button
I will note that you’ll have to reset your container once for new limits to come into effect after you upgrade, but after that it’s smooth sailing