Skeptical about $5 a month subscription
I'm hosting my server on render and i pay $25 dollars a month for 2gb ram. I decided to change to railway but i saw that it cost 5$ for 8gb ram which is suspiciously cheap . Is there any catch ? Is it pay as you go ?
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@DEOGEE you pay the $5/month subscription and get $5 of usage. Then you pay any resource usage over that.
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@DEOGEE you pay the $5/month subscription and get $5 of usage. Then you pay any resource usage over that.
On average how much does the usage cost @Vin
I mean if i use the server for a whole month , what does the average pricing look like
depends on your resource usage
my directus instance for example costs me around 3-5 usd in a month, this includes a CMS panel and API
and a postgresql DB
It all depends on the language ur using and what ur doing, for example, there's a guy on the Trial plan here, he deployed a Go server that uses 16mb of ram, it will run for free for the next 2 years.
Thats a pretty good deal honestly
Wait why will it be free for the next 2 years for him
Btw i'm hosting the server for my project -> shortsauto.ai
The server generates videos so theres a lot going on but no database
I think it'll be cheaper than the $25 that i pay with render
It's also the fact that i'm only getting 2gb ram for the $25 which is ridiculous. I guess i'll be switching to railway then
Thank you all @Vin @Medim
please note that if you used the full 8GB of ram 24/7 it would become very expensive
5usd free trial, his application uses so little that it will take 2 years to deplete all of those 5usd
You can look at your resource stats on render, and then match the average against the pricing calculator at http://railway.app/pricing to get an estimate
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Railway is an infrastructure platform where you can provision infrastructure, develop with that infrastructure locally, and then deploy to the cloud.
also, remember to use internal networking to communicate between your services in railway
Is there a way to schedule the server to shut down when i hit a particular usage/price
or maybe get a notification when i hit a price point
You can set app sleeping so it scales to zero when not in use (good money saver), but you can also set usage limits
That's actually smart , i'll definately do that , thanks.
The usage limits is perfect . I'll look into that . Thank you! When the app is asleep does railway have to rebuild the project everytime someone access the server ? That would make it slower right ? but save money of course
It does not rebuild when someone accesses it, but it will still have the cold start time, so it might be a tad bit slow on initial request after sleep
Got it! I'll test both. Thank you soo much
No problem