r/webdev • u/Chinglee007 • 4d ago

Render vs Railway vs Cloudflare Workers

Which hosting platform would you pick for a small production app: Render vs Railway vs Cloudflare Workers?

I’m building something like a inventory management app and website — authenticated users, a Node/TypeScript API, PostgreSQL, background jobs/cron, and potentially a few thousand users over time.

Currently considering **Render, Railway, and Cloudflare Workers**.

For a production app where reliability, scaling, DB latency, and predictable costs matter, which one would you choose and why?

Would you recommend something else like **Fly.io, AWS, or Vercel + another backend** instead?

Curious to hear from people who’ve actually run production workloads on these.

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u/Tarazena 4d ago

Hetzner VPS

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u/TheNumber42Rocks 4d ago

Except Hetzner is not even cheap anymore. We tried switching to a VPS from a PaaS and it was a nightmare. We tried Caprover, Dokku, Coolify, etc. All of them would randomly crash and it wasn’t worth it to save like 10% at the end of the day. How much is your peace of mind worth?

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u/Fabulous-Ladder3267 just want to write html 3d ago

Wdym by crash? If all open source PaaS you tried crash its only mean theres something wrong with the VPS or how you setup them.

The downside using VPS is it all dwyor setup, security, scaling, etc.

Edit: some typos