Might be useful:

https://docs.railway.app/reference/app-sleeping

https://station.railway.com/feedback/ability-to-pause-projects-4e8b1686

https://station.railway.com/questions/my-project-was-deleted-7ed9cd05

There isn’t a user-visible feature to completely “suspend” a project so it’s hosted but not billed. To actually stop paying while keeping the option to come back quickly, you’d:

-export the WordPress DB (mysqldump / pg_dump using the DB service’s DATABASE_URL)

-back up any files/uploads stored on a Railway volume (tar the directory and copy it off)

-keep your WordPress + Next.js code in Git

Later, when the client decides:

-create a new DB service and import the dump

-create a new app service, attach a volume and restore the files

-redeploy from the same repo and point it at the restored DB

Hey, as enlorik mentioned above there technically isn't a way to completely pause your project without any destructive actions (such as deleting the volume). One way of pausing everything would be to remove all the deployments from all the services you have in your project. This way, you can restore them by just redeploying all of them again. You will only be charged for the volume in this case, which should be negligible.

Hi,

thank you both, I was trying to backup, will see if will work in a future.

Thanks,
Marek