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Reddit · r/webhosting · 7 days ago

Has used DigitalOcean for years, finds it very reliable and has never needed to contact support because it has always just worked.

Reddit · r/webdev · 15 days ago

Stopped using Railway after security incidents and because prices skyrocketed once there was some traffic; now on cheaper Hetzner servers.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 16 days ago

They could not open a support ticket during the outage even as owner and creator of the subscription, getting through automated support agents only to be told to ask their provider to open it.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 16 days ago

They had about an hour of trouble with their SQL elastic pool in West Europe where the server was reachable but no tables were accessible.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 16 days ago

They saw not only SQL problems but also disconnected virtual machines during the West Europe incident, all of which came back later.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 16 days ago

Their AKS VMs were live migrated several times a week, which exposed a Redis client config issue causing latency and pod restarts. After tuning pings and keep-alives they have had no VM freeze in months.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 16 days ago

They ran a cluster of 40 then 120 nodes on Azure and hit network backplane flooding, fixed by bigger VMs and then API refactoring. They say Azure documents these best practices poorly.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 16 days ago

Liked not thinking about infrastructure on Railway, but recent downtime is a blocker and they are looking at self-hosting.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 17 days ago

They found the Azure health history still showed no event for their subscriptions during the West Europe incident and felt the status and health reporting is lacking.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 17 days ago

They saw no problem during the West Europe outage because their Azure SQL server is only privately accessible, which they suspect explains why others were hit.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 17 days ago

They had to restart a stuck elastic pool with eight databases during the incident, with SSMS not showing logins and a job looping on authentication.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 17 days ago

Their VMs sat on full servers with no capacity, so every small hiccup shuffled the whole rack slowly, and they eventually moved region.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 17 days ago

Their Windows VMs crashed right after provisioning with disk hardware errors and a month of work with support, including kernel dumps, got no result. They switched from spot to on-demand VMs at higher cost.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 17 days ago

They hit an Azure SQL outage in West Europe where connections failed intermittently and tables could not be listed in SSMS on the primary of their failover group, while the read-only failover copy looked fine.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 17 days ago

They could connect to their server but not browse the databases in their Azure SQL elastic pool, and restarting the pool failed with an internal server error while service health showed nothing.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 17 days ago

They lost metrics and databases during the West Europe elastic pool outage, a restore failed, and support gave no response for two hours beyond generic automated replies.

Reddit · r/webdev · 17 days ago

They chose Railway for its managed setup and infrastructure visualizer at a price close to a VPS, and say it is far cheaper than AWS for them, despite its reliability issues.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 18 days ago

For a month their AKS Linux VMs froze together with connectivity issues and support was not useful. Switching from Dasv6 to Dsv7 stopped the freezes but costs more.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 18 days ago

They lost invoice access entirely, and after weeks support told them to create another subscription for billing. First-line support just follows a script until a senior engineer gets involved.

Reddit · r/webdev · 18 days ago

They report essentially zero downtime in the 5 years their team has used Render.

Reddit · r/devops · 18 days ago

AI API key stolen via Railway; an Anthropic alert, not Railway, revealed it, and a spend cap limited the loss.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 20 days ago

As a student they used the $300 trial to host a Minecraft server on virtual machines and ended up with a $157 charge. Their billing account is closed and support redirects them to an automated assistant.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 20 days ago

With about a decade in cloud, they ran two startups on GCP and never had a billing or alerting issue.

Reddit · r/devops · 20 days ago

Railway is insanely fast to deploy with a nice UI, but security and reliability let them down; switching permanently.

Reddit · r/webdev · 21 days ago

After an earlier outage they moved their services from Railway to AWS. After the latest incident they cancelled their subscription, saying even the support page would not load.

Reddit · r/webdev · 21 days ago

Their team spent a full day rotating secrets after the Railway incident and lost count of the complaints in their chat.

Reddit · r/devops · 21 days ago

Beta site on Railway: Gemini key abused for about $2k in two hours, no notice from Railway, deleted all accounts.

Reddit · r/devops · 21 days ago

Started on Railway because it was easy and cheap, but two years of outages and the breach handling are pushing them off.

Reddit · r/devops · 21 days ago

On a 7-day Railway trial, could not deploy on day 3 and is not happy.

Reddit · r/devops · 21 days ago

Moved everything to Cloudflare; Railway's infrastructure stability was not consistent.

Reddit · r/webdev · 21 days ago

API credits drained despite usage limits after the Railway breach, and they could not redeploy for 30+ hours.

Reddit · r/devops · 21 days ago

Revoked an OpenAI key before it was used, but says Railway has had too many issues and will use a better-known host for sensitive apps.

Reddit · r/webdev · 22 days ago

They had downtime during the Railway incident while they redeployed their app on DigitalOcean, and do not plan to return.

Reddit · r/webdev · 22 days ago

They describe a Railway outage running toward 48 hours with their availability dropping from 99% to about 95%.

Reddit · r/webdev · 22 days ago

Their app got a big traffic boost from a podcast shoutout, but new users could not sign up and they could not deploy a fix because Railway deployments were down.

Reddit · r/webdev · 22 days ago

They say Railway's status page claimed slow builds while deployments were not working at all, even on the pro plan.

Reddit · r/webdev · 22 days ago

Railway asked them to change exposed variables but they could not deploy a new build, leaving their service inoperable.

Reddit · r/webdev · 22 days ago

They moved their Rails apps to DigitalOcean Kubernetes a few years ago using the Cuber gem and say it works perfectly.

Reddit · r/webdev · 22 days ago

They use Heroku for all their client work and say elsewhere they have had no issues in about 10 years.

Reddit · r/devops · 22 days ago

Cybersecurity worker says Railway was unreliable for six months before the env-var breach and is moving off.

Reddit · r/devops · 22 days ago

Solo founder's OpenAI and Anthropic keys were compromised; rotated them but could not deploy because Railway paused deployments.

Reddit · r/devops · 22 days ago

Anthropic disabled a Railway-linked key after unauthorized use; Railway never notified them.

Reddit · r/devops · 22 days ago

Outages are common on Railway and the breach handling gave no proper notifications or dashboard warning.

Reddit · r/devops · 22 days ago

Spent hours rotating keys after the Railway breach only to find the new ones leaked again; fixes would not deploy.

Reddit · r/devops · 22 days ago

Liked Railway but the env-var breach spooked them into moving small projects to EC2.

Reddit · r/devops · 22 days ago

Production database down for hours with no way to restore or redeploy on a Hobby plan.

Reddit · r/webdev · 22 days ago

Third time burned by Railway; migrated their business to DigitalOcean.

Reddit · r/webdev · 22 days ago

Many issues lately; says Railway is not worth the $200/month they pay and is moving.

Reddit · r/devops · 22 days ago

After the Railway incident, migrating to Fly.io was far easier than expected, about 30 minutes.

Reddit · r/webdev · 22 days ago

OpenAI key leaked through the Railway incident and was burned; a spend cap limited the loss.

Reddit · r/devops · 22 days ago

OpenRouter disabled leaked keys; Railway never said which projects or keys were affected.

Reddit · r/devops · 22 days ago

Their Anthropic key was used by an unknown party after the Railway breach and deployments stayed down for 10-14 hours.

Reddit · r/devops · 22 days ago

A 7k increase in OpenAI costs from a key leaked via Railway.

Reddit · r/webdev · 23 days ago

They say Railway has had major issues for over a year and two incidents in two days left them unable to update projects. Even support was down, and they are asking for an alternative.

Reddit · r/webdev · 23 days ago

They needed to ship an important product and Railway had been unable to deploy for 12 hours.

Reddit · r/webdev · 23 days ago

They could not deploy a critical update to their PHP services during the Railway outage and had to take the services down.

Reddit · r/webdev · 23 days ago

As a paying customer running client applications, they could not access projects or deploy during the outage. They give Railway 24 hours before cancelling their subscription.

Reddit · r/webdev · 23 days ago

They moved projects off Railway after the underlying GCP provider cut it off for about a day. They also saw services locking up and needed repeated restarts.

Reddit · r/webdev · 23 days ago

Railway deployments began failing just before they pushed their new Android app announcement to production, and had been down since.

Reddit · r/webdev · 23 days ago

They have thousands of users and could not deploy during the Railway outage, so they are asking for alternatives.

Reddit · r/webdev · 23 days ago

They have the opposite experience of the complaints: they are amazed by Railway's performance and by the features they get for the cost.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 24 days ago

They deliberately run on Google-operated regions in Belgium and the Netherlands rather than the London colo region. They were unaffected by the europe-west2 outage and hope it leads to improvements.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 27 days ago

They have used Azure since 2010 but are migrating to AWS after a year in which they say support went from present to non-existent.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 27 days ago

Free-tier Flask apps deployed on Render were suspended, forcing a search for alternatives.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 28 days ago

They once had a support ticket open for a year; the issue was known but support said they lacked access to fix it.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 28 days ago

They see capacity shortages across many GCP machine families and regions, even on the alternative GCP suggested, which threatens production scaling.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 29 days ago

Despite paying for a support subscription, their Azure ticket was answered by an AI that kept asking and suggesting.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 29 days ago

After 4 years on Azure, an unannounced host migration took their MySQL master offline for 45 seconds, causing a week of recovery, and support did not meaningfully respond for almost 2 months. They are migrating to AWS from around $70K a month of spend.

Reddit · r/aws · 33 days ago

They call Lightsail an insecure dev machine on the internet but useful for spinning up different OSs, and they use it to test arm64.

Reddit · r/aws · 33 days ago

They call Lightsail Containers a hidden gem and the cheapest managed container host, used for web and internal apps for over 4 years with zero maintenance.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 33 days ago

Hosts a site on Fly.io with no problems and perfect 100 scores across the board on page insights.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 34 days ago

They run a Python app with a 2.2 GB SQLite database on a 2 GB, 2 vCPU Lightsail instance at 12 dollars a month, and its CPU burst capacity is exhausted, slowing migration and workers.