trentprynn

I’m looking forward to the future of debugging how that pesky payment vanished into thin air despite the money being deducted from the account using code that’s just english writing!

Yeah railway's pricing is super confusing -- it will be interesting to see what the total for my (very low traffic) websites will at the end of the month. On the dashboard it currently estimates my total bill for all sites to be $2.82 which means I'll be under their $5/mo free credit.

At least they have a very convenient single page where I can see the total for all projects at one time.

I moved 4 personal websites with a total of 7 services to railway.app (no affiliation) this weekend and was very impressed with how simple it was. Previously these websites were hosted using a combination of GitHub Pages + Heroku + Fly.io but it’s nice to have all of them hosted in a consistent way now.

I vastly preferred the railway.app migration to the fly.io migration but fly.io feels much more production ready than railway. This isn’t a big deal as none of the projects I moved have paying users so downtime would be acceptable if it happens. I was able to deploy all of my applications from the UI without ever having to install any company specific CLI which I prefer. Railway being such a small company has lacking docs and is very difficult to google for specific question about the provider —- most “railwayapp” google responses are for actual railways. Pretty much everything was intuitive and didn’t require the docs though which was much more pleasant than my experiences with fly.io.

To get the custom domains working I had to move my DNS to cloudflare for all sites which was something I had planned on doing anyways but felt annoying in the moment. I was previously using my domain registrar’s (namecheap) DNS but they don’t seem to support CNAME flattening which allows for CNAME apex domain entries which were required for getting custom domains on railway.

I moved all of the services in about a day and everything has been running pretty well. I do think railway is slower than fly but everything is still plenty fast so far. All projects have automatic github deployments which have been working well so far. Overall for a new project made by a small team I have really really enjoyed using railway for hosting. Railway is organized in a way that matches how I think about project hosting and most things seem well thought out with lots of good stuff still coming.

The websites moved were https://trentprynn.com https://habitapper.com https://weightwatchapp.com https://samueldebartolo.com

these are all open source and can be viewed from my github https://github.com/trentprynn

I’d go one step further and recommend actually deleting the account — non-binding actions such as temporary app removal (in my experience) have not worked. If I want to stop doing something it’s always been helpful to me to have some sort of “committing” action attached

edit: this is if the goal is full stoppage — limitation based goals have always been very difficult for me

Funnily enough I recently did the same thing for my personal website[1][2]. Previously I had used create-react-app to build what was essentially some basic static HTML with styling and I took a step back and realized how insane it was that I had an entire build + deploy pipeline to show some basic information.

The website is currently 16.59KB transferred and it has the following - dark mode support - social media display support - basic, anonymous analytics using simpleanalytics

It's hosted for free using GitHub pages and a push to master immediately makes the changes available on the internet. Additionally GitHub manages all of the SSL certs so I don't even have to think about it. Compared to the SPAs I (and most WebDevs) write for work nowadays it was actually a breath of fresh air to take away so much!

[1] website: https://trentprynn.com/ [2] source: https://github.com/trentprynn/trentprynn.com

In my opinion, if someone is administering a database they likely have enough programming ability to write a bash/powershell script to do a SELECT TOP 5 * FROM query on whatever database and pump the results through twilio to wherever they want.