Deploying my first app – Railway vs Render vs Fly.io? 102 viewsMarch 18, 2026Deployment Hosting Railway Render Fly PaaS DevOps 0 Student Tom March 18, 2026 0 Comments Finally finished my first side project and now I need to deploy it lol It’s a Node.js API with PostgreSQL All three seem good but which one has the best DX and free tier?? Don’t wanna deal with Docker too much honestly 😅 2 Answers ActiveVotedNewestOldest 0 Student Tom Posted March 18, 2026 0 Comments Fly.io gang rise up! 🚀 Global edge deployment is crazy fast, and you can run Docker which gives you full control Free tier includes 3 VMs + 1GB storage The only hassle is initial setup but once it’s up it’s solid 0 Jane Liu Posted March 18, 2026 0 Comments Railway is the move for Node + Postgres 👆 Zero config needed, auto-deploys from GitHub, database provision in one click Free tier is 500 hours which is plenty for testing The DX is literally effortless – deploy in 5 mins Login Archives March 2026 September 2024 Categories Uncategorized