Europe region without PRO plan?
borisgrigorov
HOBBYOP

2 years ago

Hi, is there any way to host my project on EU region without paying pro plan? All of my users are from europe and the loading times are real difference. I really like railway and don't want to migrate to any other provider, but at the same time I would not totally use the benefits of the pro plan, also the price for me now is not acceptable.

30 Replies

borisgrigorov
HOBBYOP

2 years ago

N/A


brody
EMPLOYEE

2 years ago

a pro plan is going to be needed in this case, and if you have a userbase and response times matter, you likely arent running a hobby workload.


borisgrigorov
HOBBYOP

2 years ago

Like, yes, I have some users. But the profit of it is not even paying for the hobby plan. It's not really the main problem, but the user experience now is kinda but with loading of 10-12 seconds, comparing to europe servers 2-3 seconds


borisgrigorov
HOBBYOP

2 years ago

But anyway, thanks for the answer


brody
EMPLOYEE

2 years ago

well hold up, 10-12 seconds compared to 2-3 seconds is not going to be down to the region, there is something else at play here.


brody
EMPLOYEE

2 years ago

i've had people in or around Europe test us-west vs eu-west, and rtt to us-west did not add as much delay as what you speak of.


brody
EMPLOYEE

2 years ago

and 2-3 seconds from a server in the same region? tbh i think you have some bugs to work out before you start worrying about regions.


borisgrigorov
HOBBYOP

2 years ago

Hmm, that's strange, while I was testing the difference, us railway (no cold start) vs vps on eu-central, the difference was there as I said


borisgrigorov
HOBBYOP

2 years ago

But I will chceck it once again, maybe it's not the root of the problem


brody
EMPLOYEE

2 years ago

going from eu-west to us-west should add a few hundred milliseconds max


brody
EMPLOYEE

2 years ago

tell me a bit more about your app?


borisgrigorov
HOBBYOP

2 years ago

We are talking about bacic node.js api server with express, no rendering, just api. For db I'm using mongodb atlas but in eu region, which I think can add some time to go back to europe for data.


brody
EMPLOYEE

2 years ago

try running the mongo database on railway and connect to it with the private network


borisgrigorov
HOBBYOP

2 years ago

Oh, that really made a huge difference, I'm now down to almost the europe latency


borisgrigorov
HOBBYOP

2 years ago

Thanks a lot


brody
EMPLOYEE

2 years ago

sanity check, you are using the private network right?


borisgrigorov
HOBBYOP

2 years ago

Although not having all of the data to load, but still a much greater


borisgrigorov
HOBBYOP

2 years ago

like? I'm not sure what you mean, with the mongo atlas?


brody
EMPLOYEE

2 years ago

that's easy enough, mongo dump and mongo restore


brody
EMPLOYEE

2 years ago

no, with railway, are you connecting to mongo on railway via the private network?


borisgrigorov
HOBBYOP

2 years ago

yes, I'm


borisgrigorov
HOBBYOP

2 years ago

thanks a lot!


brody
EMPLOYEE

2 years ago

you are using the private url?


borisgrigorov
HOBBYOP

2 years ago

yes, the connection string provided as env variable


brody
EMPLOYEE

2 years ago

right but are you using the private url environment variable?


borisgrigorov
HOBBYOP

2 years ago

yes, ${{MongoDB.MONGOPRIVATEURL}}


brody
EMPLOYEE

2 years ago

perfect


borisgrigorov
HOBBYOP

2 years ago

Again thanks a lot!


borisgrigorov
HOBBYOP

2 years ago

Have a nice day!


brody
EMPLOYEE

2 years ago

no problem, you too!


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