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Coming from Aptible
Aptible targets regulated teams on its own managed infrastructure, with production plans commonly starting near $499 a month. Railyard runs the same apps on servers in your own cloud account, at a flat price per team.
Why teams leave Aptible
Aptible is built for regulated teams that need HIPAA or SOC 2 out of the box, and it does that well. The friction is price: production plans commonly start near $499 a month, which is a lot of platform for a team that doesn’t need the full compliance package.
Railyard runs the same containerized apps on a server in your own cloud account, at a flat price per team.
What comes with you
- Your repo, built from a Dockerfile.
- Your environment variables and secrets.
- Managed Postgres, MySQL and Redis map directly to Railyard addons.
- Your existing cloud account: Railyard provisions a plain server in it instead of Aptible’s managed stack.
The move
- Attach a server: a new one Railyard provisions in your cloud account.
- Add your repo and point Railyard at your Dockerfile.
- Bring your config and attach the datastores your app expects.
- Deploy to a temporary URL. Run your release task and verify.
- Migrate data with a dump and restore into the managed addon.
- Move DNS. Aptible keeps serving until the cutover; there is no outage.
What’s different
A flat, much lower price per team instead of a production plan starting near $499 a month, for teams that don’t need Aptible’s full compliance package.