The per-project tax
Every new idea on a hosted PaaS is another $7–25 a month for the web process plus another for its database. Ten ideas is a real bill before anyone signs up.
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Run 10+ apps on one $5 server. Push like Vercel.
Stop paying $20/mo per project on Vercel, Render or Railway for ideas with zero users. Connect one server once and deploy every side project, every Postgres and every Redis on it until something takes off.
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A Hetzner server from €5.99/mo runs a dozen small apps, their databases and workers. Railyard packs them, routes domains and issues HTTPS for each.
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| Hosted PaaS | Railyard on your server | |
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| 10 side projects | ~$200+/mo (10 × web + database) | $19/mo Pro + one server from €5.99 |
| New project | Another monthly line item | $0 extra: deploy it on the same server |
| Databases | Billed per database | Postgres, MySQL, Redis on your server, backed up |
| Sleeping apps | Pay or get cold starts | Idle staging sleeps, your box stays on |
| Leaving | Re-platform everything | Containers keep running on your server |
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What you'd pay each month.
Describe your app. Prices come from each provider's public pricing page.
Public list prices checked on October 13, 2026: Heroku · Render · DigitalOcean. Taxes not included. Railyard adds up the memory of your processes and databases and picks the smallest Droplet that fits.
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Sign in with GitHub
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Start your free 7-day server
Or connect DigitalOcean, Vultr, Hetzner, AWS, OVHcloud, Scaleway, or UpCloud in about two minutes.
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Deploy every project
Paste a repo or pick a one-click open-source app. HTTPS and backups included.
How many apps fit on one server?
As many as fit in its RAM. A small Next.js or Rails app with Postgres needs about 1–2 GB, so a 4 GB server comfortably runs several. Railyard shows CPU and RAM per app so you know when to add a second server.
What's free?
The Free plan is free forever: 1 server plus a database server and 3 apps. Pro (unlimited apps, up to 5 servers, PR previews) is $19 a month per team, and every new team gets 14 days of Pro.
Do I need to know Docker?
No. Paste a repo and Railyard detects the framework, builds it (or uses your Dockerfile), and sets up HTTPS and health checks.