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Rent it, roll it, or own it.

Three honest ways to deploy in 2026. Each trades something real — here's the trade, line by line.

	Railyard	Managed PaaS	Kamal / Dokku
Servers live in your own cloud account	yes	no	yes
No markup on compute	yes	no	yes
Choose a Canadian region for your data	yes	partial	yes
Billed in Canadian dollars	yes	no	n/a
Push-button deploy with live build logs	yes	yes	partial
Verify-then-swap zero-downtime releases	yes	yes	partial
Provision a new server from the interface	yes	yes	no
Managed addons with injected credentials	yes	yes	no
Backups with verified restores	yes	yes	no
Teams, roles, 2FA, scoped API tokens	yes	yes	no
Append-only audit trail	yes	partial	no
Keeps running if the vendor disappears	yes	no	yes

One developer, nobody outside the team asking who has access — a config file and a terminal may genuinely be enough. Past that, this table is the whole argument.

01 / no lock-in cancel · apps keep serving

The exit is the feature.

Your apps are plain containers on Linux boxes behind a standard proxy. Leaving costs you the dashboard, not the deployment — and moving in works the same way, right alongside whatever you run today.

Deploy next to your current platform
Prove it on a temporary URL
Flip DNS when you're ready — not before

app.example.com · DNS no downtime

old platform servingdrained

railyard · web-fsn-1 standbylive

The A record flips once. Every request already in flight still lands.

Try it against the setup you already have.

The free plan connects one server. Point it at a staging box and deploy something real before you decide.

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Free for one server, forever. No credit card.