Hey there! We've found the following might help you get unblocked faster: - [📚 Variables](https://docs.railway.com/reference/variables) - [🧵 Advice about 'App sleep' feature for backup services](https://station.railway.com/questions/advice-about-app-sleep-feature-for-bac-f1c14702) - [📚 Serverless](https://docs.railway.com/reference/app-sleeping) If you find the answer from one of these, please let us know by solving the thread!

Yes. Enable “Serverless” (formerly App-Sleeping).When enabled, Railway puts a service to sleep after ~10 minutes with no outbound traffic (e.g., no DB pings/telemetry). The next request wakes it; expect a small (reasonable) “cold start” delay on that first hit.How to turn it on (per service)1. Open your project → the service → Settings → Deploy → Serverless.2. Toggle Enable Serverless as demonstrated in the attached image.More detailsImportant caveatsAnything that sends packets (DB connection pools, telemetry, scheduled pings, calls to other services) will keep the service awake. Sleeping is based on outbound traffic; inbound traffic doesn’t prevent sleep.The first request after sleep has a small cold-boot.Budget control (your $10 cap)Go to Workspace → Usage → Set Usage Limits.Set a Custom email alert (soft limit).Set a Hard limit at this amount Railway takes workloads offline for the rest of the cycle. Minimum hard limit is $10. (Available for Pro and auto-pay Hobby; prepaid plans use credits as the hard limit.)More detailsPlan noteHobby has a $5 minimum usage and is fine for trying things out; combining Serverless + a $10 hard limit is the safest way to keep costs predictable.