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Thanks for the reply, Issue resolved:)

This could be done automatically by pinging the root and searching for a header set by railway's default page. If it doesn't exist then the service is live.

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We used to do that by default, but it led to issues with load on our proxy. (Imagine n * m pings against your host for a shit-tonne (official measurement) of builds + deploys a day.)

We are hiring Network Engineers for exactly this reason :')

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