I’m running a production backend on Railway deployed in asia-southeast1 (Singapore).

Most of my users are in India, and I’m consistently seeing a major issue:

❗ First request takes 6–7 seconds

After that, all subsequent requests are fast (100–200 ms).

I confirmed the issue:

• My backend is not slow
• I have logs for any request >1s --> no slow logs at all
• So the delay happens before the request reaches my server
• It looks like cold-start–like behavior or network/edge warm-up issues
• Happens randomly but very frequently for new connections from India
• All users impacted are from India → Railway Singapore route

This is hurting user experience badly because:

• First API call from India sometimes freezes for 6–7 seconds
• Subsequent requests are instant (so server processing is fine)
• It feels like Cloudflare → Railway routing or region warmup latency

Request

Can someone from the team look into this routing / cold-edge behavior?

Also, is there:

• Any known issue for India → Singapore latency spikes?
• Any network warmup or region handshake on first request?
• Any recommended config to avoid slow first request latency?

If possible, please consider adding India region (asia-south) in the future

since the majority of Railway users are from India and this would eliminate the high initial latency.

Thank you!