9 months ago
I'm hosting my server on render and i pay $25 dollars a month for 2gb ram. I decided to change to railway but i saw that it cost 5$ for 8gb ram which is suspiciously cheap . Is there any catch ? Is it pay as you go ?
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9 months ago
@DEOGEE you pay the $5/month subscription and get $5 of usage. Then you pay any resource usage over that.
I mean if i use the server for a whole month , what does the average pricing look like
9 months ago
depends on your resource usage
9 months ago
my directus instance for example costs me around 3-5 usd in a month, this includes a CMS panel and API
9 months ago
and a postgresql DB
9 months ago
It all depends on the language ur using and what ur doing, for example, there's a guy on the Trial plan here, he deployed a Go server that uses 16mb of ram, it will run for free for the next 2 years.
Btw i'm hosting the server for my project -> shortsauto.ai
The server generates videos so theres a lot going on but no database
It's also the fact that i'm only getting 2gb ram for the $25 which is ridiculous. I guess i'll be switching to railway then
9 months ago
please note that if you used the full 8GB of ram 24/7 it would become very expensive
9 months ago
5usd free trial, his application uses so little that it will take 2 years to deplete all of those 5usd
9 months ago
You can look at your resource stats on render, and then match the average against the pricing calculator at http://railway.app/pricing to get an estimate
9 months ago
also, remember to use internal networking to communicate between your services in railway
Is there a way to schedule the server to shut down when i hit a particular usage/price
or maybe get a notification when i hit a price point
9 months ago
You can set app sleeping so it scales to zero when not in use (good money saver), but you can also set usage limits
The usage limits is perfect . I'll look into that . Thank you! When the app is asleep does railway have to rebuild the project everytime someone access the server ? That would make it slower right ? but save money of course
9 months ago
It does not rebuild when someone accesses it, but it will still have the cold start time, so it might be a tad bit slow on initial request after sleep
9 months ago
No problem