Railway.app
fortrabbit is a Railway alternative to evaluate specifically if you are 'just' creating websites.
# About Railway
Railway is a deployment and hosting platform that allows users to provision infrastructure, develop locally with the infrastructure, and then deploy to the cloud. It is a new startup with backing from venture capitalists and aims to be a modern replacement for Heroku. Railway supports Heroku buildpacks and is language-agnostic, meaning that users can run any language, such as Python (Django), Ruby (Rails), Java, or Node.js, on the platform.
Railway allow you to start without credit card and include MySQL/Postgres/Redis in easy setup, nice choice to play with several databases and pick up the best for your project. A lot of templates available, all configuration should be done in web UI. The UI isn't very advanced, but does the job. Permanent drive is a nice upgrade after ephemeral-only Heroku. GitHub's account is required to deploy app from Railway template, slightly surprised why, maybe GitHub doing kind of aggressive rate limits. UI is very simple, does the job and even more: you can add MySQL tables and make the queries in web form. One major problem in very slow vCPU, even for a demo app.
However, with Railway, you need to adapt to its paradigms. This ultimately gives you more control to set up a professional solution on the platform, but for a price. For those looking to develop and deploy big, sophisticated web applications, Railway, Render, or Fly may be worth considering.
# Why fortrabbit
fortrabbit is more zoomed in than Railway with a higher grade of abstraction. fortrabbit provides a more specialized solution and is optimized for creating dynamic PHP websites and web applications alike. Don't compromise on dev features. Get fast, reliable and secure cloud hosting at an affordable price.
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