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Kunal Bagaria
Kunal Bagaria

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The best free cloud platform to deploy your bots and projects? Railway.app review

I've tried most popular cloud platforms. AWS, Heroku, DigitalOcean, GCloud, etc. None of them have impressed me with their ease of use or pricing.

You have probably always wanted to deploy your own application to the cloud but didn't, after seeing the horrifying dashboards of AWS and other platforms.

I mean look at this mess
13-aws-ec2-dashboard

Railway offers an easy one click dockerized deployment for your applications. You can link your Github repo for automatic deployments on new commits and also a CLI tool to deploy directly.

It currently offers the following plugins:

  • MongoDB
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • MySQL

They have usage based plans to better suit the developers
Railway Pricing

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