Railway is a modern cloud deployment platform designed to replace Heroku as the simplest way to deploy applications, databases, and infrastructure. The platform provides instant deployments from GitHub, managed PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, and MongoDB databases, environment-based workflows, and usage-based pricing. Railway has grown rapidly among indie developers, startups, and small teams who want production-grade infrastructure without the complexity of AWS or GCP. The platform supports any language or framework through Nixpacks buildpacks and Docker containers.
Railway outages commonly involve deployment build pipeline congestion during peak hours, database provisioning failures for new projects, and networking issues in specific cloud regions. As a rapidly growing platform, Railway occasionally experiences growing pains when infrastructure scaling does not keep pace with user adoption surges. Build cache invalidation issues can cause deployments to take significantly longer than expected, and resource limit enforcement errors may incorrectly restart or throttle running services.
When Railway goes down, deployed applications become unreachable, managed databases disconnect, and new deployments queue indefinitely. Developers lose the ability to push updates or roll back to previous versions. For startups and indie projects using Railway as their primary hosting platform, an outage means complete application unavailability with limited failover options. The impact is concentrated among smaller teams who typically have less infrastructure redundancy.
Use this page to check Railway availability. Railway outages can affect deployments, databases, or networking independently. Check status.railway.app for official incident reports and real-time component status. The Railway Discord community is also a fast source of information during incidents.
Deployment failures can result from platform outages, build errors in your code, Nixpacks detection issues, or resource limit exhaustion on your plan. Check the deployment logs in the Railway dashboard. If multiple unrelated projects are failing simultaneously, it is likely a platform issue. Clear the build cache by triggering a fresh deployment.
Railway is a newer platform with a smaller but rapidly growing infrastructure. Heroku has decades of operational maturity on AWS. Railway's smaller scale means outages may be resolved faster but can occur more frequently as the platform scales. For production workloads, evaluate Railway's recent incident history on their status page.
Check status.railway.app and the Railway Discord for incident updates. If your application is critical, consider having a backup deployment on an alternative platform like Render or Fly.io. Railway's database backups can be exported, so ensure you have recent backups accessible independently of the Railway platform.
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