Skeptical about $5 a month subscription

a-bmt02
PRO

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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a-bmt02
PRO

9 months ago

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a-bmt02
PRO

9 months ago

N/A


9 months ago

@DEOGEE you pay the $5/month subscription and get $5 of usage. Then you pay any resource usage over that.


a-bmt02
PRO

9 months ago

On average how much does the usage cost @MantisInABox


a-bmt02
PRO

9 months ago

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.


a-bmt02
PRO

9 months ago

Thats a pretty good deal honestly


a-bmt02
PRO

9 months ago

Wait why will it be free for the next 2 years for him


a-bmt02
PRO

9 months ago

Btw i'm hosting the server for my project -> shortsauto.ai
The server generates videos so theres a lot going on but no database


a-bmt02
PRO

9 months ago

I think it'll be cheaper than the $25 that i pay with render


a-bmt02
PRO

9 months ago

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


a-bmt02
PRO

9 months ago

Thank you all @MantisInABox @Medim


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


a-bmt02
PRO

9 months ago

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


a-bmt02
PRO

9 months ago

That's actually smart , i'll definately do that , thanks.


a-bmt02
PRO

9 months ago

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


a-bmt02
PRO

9 months ago

Got it! I'll test both. Thank you soo much


9 months ago

No problem


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