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Thanks for the clarification. I understand the YouTube Terms of Service concern.

My question is specifically about the Railway production infrastructure and technical stability, not about YouTube's policies.

The application is already running successfully on Railway. I'm looking for advice on how to make the long-running production service more reliable, especially regarding network stability, environment variables, persistent storage, resource limits, and handling intermittent external-service failures.

If anyone has experience running a similar long-running workload on Railway, I'd appreciate any technical recommendations or best practices.