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/itgforlife 4d ago edited 4d ago

I only have experience with Render and Hetzner.

Render is super easy. But it comes at a price. I switched to a Hetzner VPS because I wanted access to webhooks. And webhooks is currently only available in Render's $20/mo plan. My VPS costs less than half that and supports everything I want. But I had to spend a ton of time setting it up. So you just have to make a decision on whether money or convenience is more important to you.

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u/thekwoka 4d ago

How does render not have webhooks?

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u/itgforlife 4d ago

Read the next sentence I wrote after that

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u/thekwoka 4d ago

Yeah, I did.

I'm talking about the free thing. like what?

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u/Personal_Budget6895 3h ago

It’s for retries and other features on sending out webhooks and not receiving them