Joke about train line aside, I think Railway fits right in the spot that Heroku left.
They have a nice UI, support deploy any kind of backend-involved apps as long as it can be built into a docker container. While many PaaS out there seems to prioritize frontend only apps.
And they have a free plan, so people can just quickly deploy some POC before decide if it's good to move on.
Anyone know if there is any other PaaS that come with a low cost starter plan like this (a side from paying for a VPS)?
Been building an open source version of railway at https://canine.sh. Offers all the same features without the potential of a vendor lock-in / price gouging.
Plenty of screenshots and exact step by step instructions. Throwing an "example git repo" with no documentation won't get you any users.
Put your shoes into that of a Heroku/Vercel user. DevOps is usually Somebody Else's Problem. They are not going to spend hours debugging kubernetes so if you want to sell them a PaaS built on Kubernetes, it has to be fool proof. Coolify is an excellent example, the underlying engineering is average at best (from a pure engineering point of view it's a very heavy app that suffers from frequent memory leaks, they have a new v5 rewrite but it's been stuck for 2 years) but the UI/UX has been polished very well.
Yeah working through documentation still. The goal isn’t so much to replace coolify. Mostly born out of my last start up that ran a $20M business, 15 engineers, with about 300-1000qps at peak, with fairly complex query patterns.
I think the single VPS model is just too hard to get working right at that scale.
I think north flank / enterprise applications, would be a better comparison of what canine is trying to do, rather than coolify / indie hackers. The goal is not take away kubernetes, but to simplify it massively for 90% of use cases but still give full k8s api for any more advanced features
Render.com has a similar value proposition. I’ve used them and am pretty happy. Railway seems to have more bundled observability built in, that i’d like in render.
Yes, have you seen miget.com by any chance? You can start with the free tier, and can have a backend with a database for free (256Mi plan). If you need more, just upgrade. They redefined cloud billing. Worth checking.
VPS + Dokploy gives you just as much functionality with an additional performance boost. Hostinger has great prices and a one-click setup. Good for dozens of small projects.
+1 for dokploy, it's very flexible and allows me to setup my sites how I need. Especially as it concerns to the way I setup a static landing page, then /app goes to the react app. And /auth goes to a separate auth service, etc.
They have a nice UI, support deploy any kind of backend-involved apps as long as it can be built into a docker container. While many PaaS out there seems to prioritize frontend only apps.
And they have a free plan, so people can just quickly deploy some POC before decide if it's good to move on.
Anyone know if there is any other PaaS that come with a low cost starter plan like this (a side from paying for a VPS)?