Railway vs Fly.io: I Wanted More Control After Railway’s May 2026 Outage (opens in new tab)

TL;DR I no longer recommend Railway for serious production workloads after its recent pattern of incidents. Fly.io is not simpler, but it is one of the first alternatives worth evaluating if you want more control over infrastructure and blast radius. Even if Fly.io is not your final choice, I think teams on Railway should begin planning a move now rather than waiting for another incident. I used Railway for the same reason many developers do. It made deployment simple. Connect a repository, d...