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where is your database hosted?

I have tested from US West (Oregon, USA) and also from US East (Virginia, USA).

okay so the database is on railway?

Yes, it is in railway

is your database and django app both in us east?

Yes, both the database and Django app are hosted in the US East

is your django app connecting to the database via the private network?

Yes, the Django app is connecting to the database via the private network

whats your middleware stack?

My middleware stack configuration in the Django settings file is as follows:
MIDDLEWARE = [
'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
"whitenoise.middleware.WhiteNoiseMiddleware",
'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
"corsheaders.middleware.CorsMiddleware",
'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
'django.middleware.locale.LocaleMiddleware',
'auditlog.middleware.AuditlogMiddleware',
]

looks fine, what is debug set to when on railway?

DEBUG is set to False

whats your start command when you run locally, and your start command that railway runs?

local:
python manage.py runserver

railway:
I've tried many production setups, but currently, this is what I'm using "python manage.py migrate && python manage.py collectstatic --noinput && gunicorn -k gevent --workers=8 gym.wsgi"

already using gevent, that was what i was going to ask you to try next

any idea what might be going on?

at this moment no, but i do know that this would not be a platform issue

there is some kind of misconfiguration somewhere

is there any way to debug or trace where it's coming from?

you would need to implement some kind of highly verbose logging for that

have you tried other worker classes?

yes, I've experimented with different worker classes, but the performance issue persists

im stumped, that just leaves process of elimination, remove bits of code until the issue goes away, not the most elegant solution, but it can work

thank you very much for the suggestion and help, I will keep trying

please update me if you find anyting!