5 days ago
I'm on the Hobby plan and trying to add a persistent Volume to my existing backend service (uses SQLite, needs to survive redeploys), but the "Add Volume" option doesn't appear anywhere in the service's Settings tab, I've searched and manually scrolled through the entire page.
Context:
- All regions available to me in the region selector are Metal (US West/East California/Virginia, EU West Amsterdam, Southeast Asia Singapore). No legacy GCP region option exists anymore for my account.
- I also tried creating a brand new empty test service to see if Volume appears at creation time instead, still not visible in Settings even before deploying.
- Feature Flags page (account level) shows no Volume/Metal-related flag, even after enabling "Priority Boarding".
Question: Is Volume support currently unavailable for Metal regions on Hobby plan, or is there something that needs to be enabled on my account/project side?
Project: sunny commitment
Service: klg-classifier
Environment: production
Pinned Solution
5 days ago
Try right clicking the service to mount the volume.
2 Replies
5 days ago
This thread has been opened as a bounty so the community can help solve it.
Status changed to Open Railway • 5 days ago
5 days ago
metal volume support for hobby plan was supposed to roll out back in march 2025 per their own docs, so this should generally be live by now: https://docs.railway.com/railway-metal
one common cause for the add volume option being missing entirely: it won't show if the service has more than 1 replica, seen here: https://station.railway.com/questions/can-t-add-volume-e5a751f5 worth double checking replica count is set to 1, even on a fresh test service.
since you already ruled that out with the new test service and checked feature flags with nothing showing, this looks less like something you're missing and more like the metal-volumes flag just isn't enabled on your account despite the general rollout. worth flagging directly to staff with your account/project id since this isn't something visible or fixable from your side at this point.
Status changed to Solved mayori • 4 days ago