What options are there as a hobbyist?
I've had a Railway account since September 2022, my Railway account is linked with my GitHub account but during the transition to the new plans, I guess I didn't qualify for my monthly $5 fee to be waved, I'm now in a weird situation where my usage was around $0.45 USD a month, so if I join the $5 a month plan that basically equates to 11 months of my general usage in 1 months fee - does Railway offer any better options, or were there issues with moving people onto the free $5 a month plan? Your original post said I didn't need to do anything, then your last post suggested I did - it was quite contradictory. I can't even raise a case via e-mail because I used an e-mail alias which I cannot send from (but can still receive to) from Microsoft's Personal Outlook.com service.
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if you don't have your fee waived unfortunately there isn't much you can do
I can't tell if I should have it waived or not - the wording was conflicting throughout their posts, so even to this day I still don't know if there was something I 'needed' to do at the time, when apparently I didn't from the original post.
I was actively commiting to my GitHub, so unless the requirements were 1,000+ commits a month, along with them saying 97% of users qualify, I thought I'd be fine
on the upgrade page there's a message saying if you've your fee waived or not, take a look
When I followed the /verify link at the time it made no reference to whether it should or shouldn't be
Communication again with that process wasn't clear
considering you said your monthly usage was 45 cents, this wouldn't qualify you for the waived fee
this aspect of qualification was covered in the blog posts
Not explicitly it wasn't for users under $5 usage, because I guess most people do use more. I took the effort of reading the post several times, over several days so I could think differently about it lol.
I'm happy for some pay-as-you go option, that's why I'm asking this question basically, is there a plan I could use, or prepay, where I'm not spending the equivalent of 11 months usage in 1 month
there are no other plans other than the ones displayed on the pricing page, so I'm sorry but if you didn't qualify for the waived fee there's not really anything you can do
the blog posts did mention you had to have paid a non zero bill, along with some other requirements, so unfortunately you may have misinterpreted some information
That's probably where I went wrong, thinking it wasn't at a non zero bill.
Seems odd that there's no plan you can't sign up for and set your own cap and then your environment shuts down, but guess in Railways 'grand scheme' it's a niche.
I don't suppose you know some Railway alternatives with pay-as-you go options?
i think koyeb or hop.io offers that
railway does in fact have billing caps now
Thanks for this, I didn't want to move away from Railway if there wasn an option, but there doesn't appear to be
I imagine this is possible after you've signed up to the $5 a month plan
railway is now a subscription based service, an analogy would be, if you pay for a netlfix subscription but only watch one episode in the month, you'd still pay the full subscription price
the hobby plan comes with 5$ in usage credits, so it would only cost you 5$ a month
so if you decide to stay, that's awesome, if you decide to jump train, I'm sorry to see you go 😦
I get that 100%, I wish I was in the position to just have all these subscriptions - it's just a shame things are only in place for >$5, but things like Netflix and Disney Plus I actually get through providers like my bank, which offer cheaper rates (or free) than directly through providers
But I see where you were coming from with that
thank you for understanding