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Alex Spinov
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Railway Has a Free Platform That Deploys Any App From GitHub in One Click

Railway is a deployment platform that makes infrastructure easy. Connect your GitHub repo — Railway auto-detects the framework and deploys.

Free Tier

  • $5 free credit/month — no credit card needed
  • 512MB RAM — per service
  • 1GB disk — persistent storage
  • 100GB bandwidth — per month
  • PostgreSQL — managed database included
  • Redis — managed cache included

Deploy From GitHub

railway login
railway init
railway up
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Or just connect your GitHub repo in the dashboard.

Environment Variables

railway variables set DATABASE_URL=postgres://...
railway variables set API_KEY=abc123
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Railway vs Heroku

Feature Railway Heroku
Free tier $5/month credit Eco ($5/mo)
Deploy speed Seconds Minutes
Database Included Add-on
DX Modern Legacy

Need deployment setup? Check my work on GitHub or email spinov001@gmail.com for consulting.

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