Railway is very good at handling requests from around the globe as they use edge proxies, you being in Asia means your request is handled by the edge proxy in Singapore and then routed internally to the us-east region.

but you can try to move the database to the Singapore region to reduce latency even further.

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most of my customers are in US and east coast so that wouldn't make sense as solution, I just need to figure out how to connect + query consistently with Prisma when I am working abroad for the next few weeks

hmm okay, so you think this is specific to Prisma then?

tomorrow I could try interacting with the db directly outside of Prisma and see how performance/reliability is

it could be an issue with the network with your internet?

just wondering if seen others run into this issue before (specifically with Prisma) and there is a common fix

ok yeah it's getting late here so I will do a bit more testing tmrw

the only issues I've seen in this regard would be networking issues on the users side of things

but generally unable to develop my Next.js project because db connections fail consistently, but network wise I am able to take Zoom calls etc no problem

I have a dev instance of my Railway project

I will migrate that and see if it makes a noticeable difference

If it does though that would confirm its a Railway issue and nothing with my personal network or Prisma

sounds good

ok, ty for fast response as always!

appreciate it

no problem

My project sometimes has the same problem

to clarify, are you receiving this error when connecting to the database from your nextjs deployment (on railway) or from your development server (on your computer)

I tried running nc command with both VPN off and on, seems to make a difference and works when its on

nc: connectx to 35.213.135.65 port 40050 (tcp) failed: Operation timed out

vs

Connection to 35.213.135.65 port 40050 [tcp/*] succeeded!

where are you vpn'ing to?

back to US

does your vpn have a Singapore region?

yeah it does,

want me to test?

yes please

also works fine it seems

Connection to 35.213.135.65 port 40050 [tcp/*] succeeded!

turned VPN off and it immediately freezes up + times out

I guess its better for me to stay on Singpapore and let railway edge handle it for me?

rather than connect back to US from Asia

idk I'm not a network expert lol

i know you said youre in asia, but if its all right with you could you be a little more specific?

currently Indonesia

and will be going to Japan soon, before going back to US east where my company is based

(and Railway region)

can you send the specific nc command you used?

nc -zv 35.213.135.65 40050

@alex - are you still in Indonesia, can you run that command for me? without a VPN

helo

@Brody any recommendations on what setup I should be using for best performance while in Asia? ie VPN to Singapore or US etc

novpn

I guess we determined its something with my hotel network I assume

what hotel are you in bro

check your isp rq

What the hell

idk what any of this means lol

I just want to have smooth experience when devving while abroad 🙂

hotel firewall is a big possibility

alex, you are staying at a residential house right?

yeah

our internet goes through a different pipe than the hotel, I believe

I can try hotel wifi but that means i have to go downstairs

ok but while I'm here and need VPN to fix, should I just connect to any local asia location and let railway edge handle requests? or connect back to US servers

then we can mark issue resolved 🙂

use singapore imo

use the closest server to yourself to make the internet experience more bearable

i usually use the closest server that works

yeah id go with that too, google's continental datacenter connection is likely faster than your vpn

bet

thanks yall

@bebop btw what bpm are you using

Vpn *

proton

Based

switching to mulvad when my subscription ends lol

Even more based

Buy it through a reseller like tailsvwle

Then you get more utility for your lonely

Money*

Although I guess that defeats the purpose of using mullvad

idk how to mark this as solved

but yeah, thanks again

appreciate the fast responses as always

no problem!

QQ while I have you

I am starting to get SOC-2 compliance

I really love Railway and have been long time user

is your infra gonna be okay with compliance?

or am I gonna have to migrate some 😭

its not pressing but inevitable for my company as we deal with financial data

you're pro right?

yes

and gonna start using Vanta to help get compliant

still early in process

jw if other customers of urs have been able to get compliant etc without needing to migrate

I hope I can stay and make it work 🤞

theres this that was posted 4 months ago -
> Compliance Trust Center
>
> Because we were busy setting up our on-prem locations, currently we manually provide documents and bridge reports to customers needing to fulfill their SOC2 obligations. We are now pursuing our audit in earnest, and while we work to meet our auditors standard- we plan to make more of our security posture and architecture to our Business Class customers in an improved fashion.

with the wording used you may need to be on their enterprise plan, you can ask for more info by opening a private thread here -

gotcha okay

I will kick the can down the road for now

def something to take care of Railway's end, if you want to support real business + enterprise customers outside of projects etc I think its a non-negotiable

just some friendly customer feedback 😅

its just at a bit of an odd time right now with the transfer to bare metal, but be sure to open that private thread so you can talk to the team about it