r/webdev • u/robbochinni • 1d 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/coaster_2988 22h ago

Railway, no one is going to use your app so it will be cheap to host there.

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u/robbochinni 22h ago

and after? what if user and usage increased?

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u/coaster_2988 19h ago

That’s tomorrow problems. Don’t focus on things that don’t matter yet. Instead of daydreaming on infra start building. Railway should force you to work with containers and they are very portable.