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Railway (PaaS) global outage

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Re: Railway (PaaS) global outage

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Post by mstank »

huydotnet wrote: post #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 Paa…

VPS + Dokploy gives you just as much functionality with an additional performance boost. Hostinger has great prices and a one-click setup. Good for dozens of small projects.

Re: Railway (PaaS) global outage

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Post by vimda »

colesantiago wrote: post #8

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.

You don't think "railway" at least conjures ideas about the company? It's not some random word. Not every company needs to be "helps you ship software quickly inc"

Re: Railway (PaaS) global outage

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Post by czhu12 »

huydotnet wrote: post #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 Paa…

Been building an open source version of railway at https://canine.sh. Offers all the same features without the potential of a vendor lock-in / price gouging.

Re: Railway (PaaS) global outage

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Post by vintagedave »

Multiple services are receiving SIGTERM or shutdown signals. See dozens of support messages here: https://station.railway.com/questions/services-down-799f7bc1

Here's a sample log entry:

> 2026-02-11T14:35:11.916787622Z [err] 2026/02/11 14:35:03 [notice] 1#1: signal 15 (SIGTERM) received, exiting

I've had about one third of my Railway services affected. I had no notification from Railway, and logging in showed each affected service as 'Online', even though it had been shut down.

I'm pretty annoyed. I am hosting some key sites on Railway. This is not their first outage recently, and one time a couple of months ago was just as I was about to give our company owner a demo of the live product.

Re: Railway (PaaS) global outage

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Post by ktaraszk »

huydotnet wrote: post #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 Paa…

Yes, have you seen miget.com by any chance? You can start with the free tier, and can have a backend with a database for free (256Mi plan). If you need more, just upgrade. They redefined cloud billing. Worth checking.
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