Hey, what kind of application are you hosting?

NodeLink

How are you hosting NodeLink on your VPS vs on Railway?

I'm using an daemon service (specifically pm2)

And on Railway I made it clone and download an template config I made and put on the app folder

And also made it run a bash script

The only thing it does is change the config.js downloaded before based on envinroment variables

I can send the railpack.json + the start.sh if needed

I'll see what I can do here to minimize the memory usage, I have just deployed the NodeLink application as is (Dockerfile Node 20) without any configuration and it seems to use around 80MB under no load.

there is a Dockerfile?

that's prob smth I should've known

If you could send that to me, I would be grateful :)

There is one, Railway also automatically uses it when deploying the GitHub repository. Keep in mind that it will fail, since their dockerignore somehow ignores files used in the Dockerfile, I'll create a pull request to merge the dockerignore file that I have corrected.

Actual NodeLink repo: https://github.com/PerformanC/NodeLink
NodeLink with the corrected dockerignore: https://github.com/uxuz/NodeLink

Thank you!!! You helped me alot.

wait

uh

how do I connect a external gh repo

to railway

as it only shows my repos

Just paste the GitHub url in the search bar that shows up when deploying from Github.

oh

ur a legend

thank you 🙏

You are welcome!