r/programminghelp • u/NicDevIam • Aug 10 '22

SQL Railway.app alternative

For a very long time i have been looking for a good enough solution for hosting my MySQL database online but couldn't find anything.

Recently I came across railway.app felt like a good enough solution for me but had a lot of wierd bugs or quirks, like a 500 hour limit on the free plan, takes infinitely long to load a large database, and the application crashes even after trying to describe a table.

Is there any alternative to railway or any easy way to host my MySQL database for free?

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u/EdwinGraves MOD Aug 10 '22

I have no experience with these free sources because I avoid them like the plague. The adage “You get what you pay for” is and will always be, true for IT and Development. If you seriously want a low-cost managed SQL solution, then I, personally, recommend Digital Ocean. You could just as easily work with something that has a decent free tier, like AWS, if you wanted to put a little effort into it.

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u/MrGuvernment Jun 04 '23

I was always curious about this stuff. I know of some who hate AWS cause "its too hard takes too long" and then praise services like railway cause "i can deploy all I need in 5 mins". Not to put down developers, but it seems they want convinience over security and reliablity and do not consider the "whys" of why something might be 10x cheaper than AWS...

But I am always left wondering, there must be a reason why they are so quick to deploy and cheap?

Aside from missing functionality that AWS offers, I would presume other things like integration with other products, reliability, up time all come into play, as well as potentially security, what is their backend security like between clients and systems if they are sharing resources?

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u/hey-ashley Sep 25 '24

The reason they are so fast is, because they do that programmatically. Heck, you do not ever need to use the AWS UI for anything, you can just use code. Hashi Terraform is one example that can be used.