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Railyard vs Heroku

Heroku made git-push deploys the standard. You pay per dyno and per add-on, on Heroku's infrastructure. Railyard gives you the same workflow on servers you own.

 RailyardHeroku
Servers live in your own cloud account yes no
No markup on compute yes no
Bring any Ubuntu server over SSH yes no
Deploy from GitHub on every push yes yes
Preview environment per pull request yes yes
Managed databases with scheduled backups yes yes
Point-in-time database restore yes yes
Visual canvas of your project yes no
Private network between services yes partial
Sleep when idle, wake on request yes partial
Plain-language reason when a deploy fails yes partial
Apps keep running if you cancel yes no

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Move from Heroku →

Deploy your first app on a server you own.

Attach a machine with a host, a user and an SSH key, or let Railyard create one in your cloud account. It installs the rest and watches it come online.

Free plan, no card, and 14 days of Pro for every new team. One flat price per team.