Re:Lessons Learned from 11 Years of Hosting a SaaS
by andai on Thursday June 15, 2023 @03:50AM
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I think Railway nails the user experience, but basically every time I use it something goes wrong in a small or a big way (build fails randomly, UI glitches, random 404s in the control panel that fix themselves minutes later).
Used it for a few clients but it's tough to keep using it with all the issues, so I'm looking at Render and other alternatives. But if Railway could smooth out the reliability / stability, I wouldn't have any reason to switch.
Re:Lessons Learned from 11 Years of Hosting a SaaS
by jiggawatts on Thursday June 15, 2023 @04:12AM
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PS: I'm not calling out Railway specifically, I just like to laugh at how the second biggest public cloud is just a figment of our collective imaginations.
I mean seriously, railway.app has just fifteen employees in total, and revenue in the single-digit millions.
Reminds me of when someone posted a "cloud storage vendors poster" with hundreds of vendors, some with revenues smaller than a single Azure Storage Account one of my customers was using... to back up a single server.