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Coming from Railway
Railway is a great place to start. When usage-based pricing gets unpredictable and you want your own infrastructure, here's the move.
Why teams leave Railway
Railway is one of the smoothest ways to get an idea online. What sends teams looking is the meter: usage-based pricing — compute, plus egress — that is hard to forecast as traffic grows, on infrastructure that is Railway’s, with no path to run the same setup on a server you own.
Railyard is that path. The same “connect a repo, it deploys” feel, on a Linux box in your own cloud account, billed by your provider at a flat, predictable rate.
What comes with you
- Your repo, built from a Dockerfile, Nixpacks (the same builder Railway uses), or a Procfile.
- Your service variables and shared variables.
- Railway Postgres, Redis and MySQL plugins map to Railyard managed addons with injected connection strings.
- Custom domains and automatic TLS.
- Cron-style jobs become Railyard scheduled tasks.
The move
- Attach a server — provisioned by Railyard in your cloud account, or one you already have.
- Add your repo. Choose Nixpacks to match how Railway builds it, or point at your Dockerfile.
- Bring your variables and attach the datastores your services use.
- Deploy to a temporary URL. Check the app and any workers or scheduled jobs.
- Move your data. Dump each database from Railway and restore into the matching addon.
- Switch DNS. The Railway deployment serves until the cutover completes — nothing goes down. Then remove the Railway project.
What’s genuinely different
A bill you can predict, infrastructure you own, and no meter running on the bytes you serve.