2 months ago
If I deploy my project on railway to more regions than US East, will I see a change in my railway bill?
22 Replies
2 months ago
As well as the instances count, if I increase that
2 months ago
Hey, yes you'll see a diference as you'll be basically deploying a new instance of your service on that region, that also applies to replicas.
2 months ago
👋 , Is there a way to know how much of a difference I will see?
2 months ago
Totally depends on how many resources your application consumes, but in theory it'll double the bill for your service as you're basically launching a new one.
2 months ago
The only way to make sure is to basically increase it and see how it goes
2 months ago
Can I ask on why you're adding replicas/regions?
2 months ago
I see, idk if you're able to access my account and predict that for me
2 months ago
If not, I can provide details
2 months ago
I'm not a Railway employee and thus I do not have access to your account.
2 months ago
In an effort to speed up the website speed for users far from US East
2 months ago
Ah, rip
Thought the conductor role meant it's for employees of railway
2 months ago
Does your website contain a database or any external service? Remember that your database will still sit at us-east for example and the latency might double on those cases.
If your website is a static one, I would consider using a CDN like Cloudflare where it replicates your site content around the world for free.
2 months ago
Yes the database and the API are on US East
2 months ago
We're not, just community members helping out <:salute:1137099685417451530>
2 months ago
Then that would cause more issues than help.
If your API is in eu-west and your database is in us-east then each query would have the latency of going to your database for getting data/writing data and then reporting back, if you do a lot of queries per request that would have the contrary effect of reducing the latency for those users on eu-west
2 months ago
If you're still confused, there's this great video by Theo explaining it! (edge basically means regions in Railway)
2 months ago
🤔
2 months ago
Will give it a watch
2 months ago
here's the part that matters to you:
2 months ago
Ah makes sense!
2 months ago
Thank you
2 months ago
Happy to help, if you've any more question/issues feel free to open another help thread (doesn't matter the question, we're here to help <:salute:1137099685417451530> )
Status changed to Solved passos • 2 months ago