Railway vs Render: The Practical PaaS Alternative I'd Choose Before Staying on Railway (opens in new tab)

TL;DR I no longer recommend Railway as the default for serious production workloads. Render is the strongest Railway alternative for teams that still want a managed PaaS instead of moving to AWS. Render fits the original Railway use case better than the other alternatives in this series: web services, workers, cron jobs, managed Postgres, preview environments, and low infrastructure burden. Render has incidents too, but the production question is no longer whether any platform is perfect. The...