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Railway (PaaS) global outage

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Re: Railway (PaaS) global outage

#11

What is this 'railway'? I am assuming that a domain like railway.com should be about trains. Why does every tech company have to name themselves as a one word .com website and what they do is unrelated and vague to their own name? Does every tech company think they are Apple and have to register every word in the dictionary and redefine it as a technology company? Really bad name for a company.

dispell the hate from your heart

Questioning things is not 'hate' Mr Wolf.

Re: Railway (PaaS) global outage

#13
That's a big yikes just after promoting themselves in the Jmail thread yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46966562

Of course every service will have outages, it's just funny to see it so soon after saying:

> We're nuts for studying failure at the company [...]

(albeit a different 'failure' context)

Re: Railway (PaaS) global outage

#14
Joke about train line aside, I think Railway fits right in the spot that Heroku left.

They have a nice UI, support deploy any kind of backend-involved apps as long as it can be built into a docker container. While many PaaS out there seems to prioritize frontend only apps.

And they have a free plan, so people can just quickly deploy some POC before decide if it's good to move on.

Anyone know if there is any other PaaS that come with a low cost starter plan like this (a side from paying for a VPS)?

Re: Railway (PaaS) global outage

#15

What is this 'railway'? I am assuming that a domain like railway.com should be about trains. Why does every tech company have to name themselves as a one word .com website and what they do is unrelated and vague to their own name? Does every tech company think they are Apple and have to register every word in the dictionary and redefine it as a technology company? Really bad name for a company.

could be worse

could be called "entire" (https://entire.io/)

Re: Railway (PaaS) global outage

#18

Oof, off topic but the trains were out of service here for my commute last night so I though from the headline this meant that somehow all trains everywhere just stopped working. Glad to see it’s just some Saas product that’s down

Indeed! Remote bricking of trains is perhaps a thing: https://www.thedrive.com/news/hackers-beat-anti-repair-softw...

It's also mandated by Congress in the US, it's called PTC. (Remote control)

Re: Railway (PaaS) global outage

#20

Joke about train line aside, I think Railway fits right in the spot that Heroku left. They have a nice UI, support deploy any kind of backend-involved apps as long as it can be built into a docker container. While many PaaS out there seems to prioritize frontend only apps. And they have a free plan, so people can just quickly deploy some POC before decide if it's good to move on. Anyone know if there is any other Paa…

Render.com has a similar value proposition. I’ve used them and am pretty happy. Railway seems to have more bundled observability built in, that i’d like in render.
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