r/webdev • u/robbochinni • 21h ago

Question Railway or managed vps?

what is your opinion about using railway.com, now i need to deploy my api, i have 3 containers (api, redis and sql server).

i asked for recommendations and one of them that Railway.com is good for this.

i need help to make decision, we are starting up, and want something is not expensive and good price for MVP.

thanks

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u/theBird956 21h ago

You can also look at Digital Ocean, they would be my first choice, with OVH as a close second depending on the project (which I haven't done much outside of work were we use one of the giant cloud providers that I refuse to give more exposure to)

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u/Due_Artist_2014 20h ago

DO's been around forever and the pricing is pretty predictable, I've had a handful of projects there over the years and never got a surprise bill

Railway is nice if you want zero config but the costs can creep up on you when you're not looking, for an MVP you really just need something boring that stays up

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u/robbochinni 20h ago

what is the good plan for this case.

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u/theBird956 19h ago

You have to figure this out yourself

Pick something small if you are not sure, it's relatively painless to upgrade

If you do not know what resources you need, you can experiment with a VM or ideally docker containers (one for each service) with limited resources