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Coming from Clever Cloud
Clever Cloud is a European PaaS on its own infrastructure, priced by instance size and usage. Railyard runs the same apps on servers in your own cloud account, at a flat price per team.
Why teams leave Clever Cloud
Clever Cloud is a solid European PaaS with its own data centers. The friction shows up in ownership and billing: your app runs on Clever Cloud’s infrastructure, not yours, and pricing is by instance size and usage rather than a flat fee.
Railyard keeps the same git-push deploy workflow but runs it on a server in your own DigitalOcean, Hetzner or Vultr account, at a flat price per team.
What comes with you
- Your repo, built from a Dockerfile, buildpacks, or a Procfile.
- Your environment variables and secrets.
- Managed Postgres, MySQL and Redis map directly to Railyard addons.
- Your existing servers: attach them over SSH rather than rebuilding the fleet.
The move
- Attach a server: an existing one, or a new one Railyard provisions in your cloud account.
- Add your repo and select the build method that matches how Clever Cloud builds it today.
- 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. Clever Cloud keeps serving until the cutover; there is no outage.
What’s different
A flat price per team instead of instance-size and usage billing, and your app runs in your own cloud account instead of Clever Cloud’s.