Railway

Railway is a modern cloud platform that makes deploying applications effortless. Push your code and Railway handles the rest: building, deploying, networking, and scaling. It supports virtually any language and framework with automatic detection and configuration. Deploy from GitHub repos, Docker images, or templates with a single click. Railway provides managed databases out of the box including PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, and Redis with automatic backups and point-in-time recovery. The platform handles environment variables, secrets management, private networking between services, and custom domains with automatic SSL. Its usage-based pricing means you only pay for what you consume, with no upfront commitments. The dashboard provides real-time logs, metrics, deployment history, and resource monitoring. Railway supports preview environments for pull requests, cron jobs, and TCP services. With its CLI tool, you can deploy from your terminal, manage environments, and stream logs locally. It is an excellent middle ground between the simplicity of Heroku and the power of AWS, perfect for startups and solo developers who want production-grade infrastructure without the DevOps overhead.