Railyard vs Vercel
Vercel is excellent for frontends and serverless functions, on Vercel's own infrastructure. A backend that needs to run continuously, like a worker, a bot or a long job, is not what it is built for. Railyard gives you the same workflow on servers you own.
| Railyard | Vercel | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | partial |
| Point-in-time database restore | yes | no |
| Visual canvas of your project | yes | no |
| Private network between services | yes | partial |
| Sleep when idle, wake on request | yes | yes |
| Plain-language reason when a deploy fails | yes | partial |
| Apps keep running if you cancel | yes | no |
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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.
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