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Re: Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved]

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Post by cactusplant7374 » Wed, May 20, 2026, 12:48 AM UTC

eoswald wrote: post #10

Sorry, I have a hard time blaming Google for this, when Railway seems to be having increasing trouble keeping the platform stable. Something like this should NOT take down an ENTIRE service. There should be a backup when literally your business is about being the reliable backend. This just seems like poor planning to me.

Disaster recovery is pretty expensive, right? Especially for their size.

Re: Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved]

#12

Post by cactusplant7374 » Wed, May 20, 2026, 12:51 AM UTC

mcontrerazCL wrote: post #5

all my fkn postgres bd in railways! what do i do now?

Take a walk. Breathe in the fresh air. It feels good.

Re: Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved]

#13

Post by brokenodo » Wed, May 20, 2026, 12:51 AM UTC

I’m a new customer and have been falling in love with Railway over the last 2 weeks, but this is quite the wake up call.

Re: Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved]

#14

Post by csw-001 » Wed, May 20, 2026, 12:53 AM UTC

brokenodo wrote: post #13

I’m a new customer and have been falling in love with Railway over the last 2 weeks, but this is quite the wake up call.

Literally in the same boat. I've been really happy with it, but this is a major eye opener.... It's been done for a looooong time by provider standards.

Re: Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved]

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Post by ryanisnan » Wed, May 20, 2026, 12:53 AM UTC

eoswald wrote: post #10

Sorry, I have a hard time blaming Google for this, when Railway seems to be having increasing trouble keeping the platform stable. Something like this should NOT take down an ENTIRE service. There should be a backup when literally your business is about being the reliable backend. This just seems like poor planning to me.

I don't quite know what you mean. Do you really expect Railway to use a multi-cloud architecture to host all of their client's projects? I suspect that would lead to a lower availability, all things considered.

Re: Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved]

#16

Post by Mengkudulangsat » Wed, May 20, 2026, 12:53 AM UTC

That explains why all my vibe-coded hobby projects are down.

Thank God I'm not dealing with any public-facing sites! Would have been an expensive lesson for a newbie coder if my job depended on this.

Re: Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved]

#17

Post by rekabis » Wed, May 20, 2026, 12:55 AM UTC

TL;DR: putting all your eggs into one basket is bad, man.

Re: Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved]

#18

Post by rekabis » Wed, May 20, 2026, 12:56 AM UTC

TL;DR: putting all your eggs into one basket is bad, man.

Re: Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved]

#19

Post by bshack0 » Wed, May 20, 2026, 12:57 AM UTC

so....what are we switching to y'all? cloud-run ? ;P

Re: Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved]

#20

Post by reelvideocap » Wed, May 20, 2026, 12:59 AM UTC

csw-001 wrote: post #14

brokenodo wrote: post #13

I’m a new customer and have been falling in love with Railway over the last 2 weeks, but this is quite the wake up call.

Literally in the same boat. I've been really happy with it, but this is a major eye opener.... It's been done for a looooong time by provider standards.

same