At Epicmax, we've recently decided to move our hosting provider from Railway to Netlify as we transition to Netlify's Open Source team plan, which includes, at the time of writing:
- 1TB bandwidth per month
- 25,000 build minutes per month
- 2 million edge functions invocations per month
- Up to 3 concurrent builds
What are the other benefits of Netlify compared to Railway?
1. Specialization in Jamstack architectures (JS, APIs, and Markup), whereas Railway is more suited for container-based stacks.
2. Comprehensive features: Forms, Edge functions, Blobs, Image CDN, Cache Control, and analytics out of the box.
For instance, this is how real use metrics would look like:
Forms look very promising (haven't tried it yet, here's the documentation):
3. Supportive ecosystem and community.
E.g., Netlify has an impressive list of 3rd party integrations:
And you can always build your own deep integrations and connectors with the Netlify SDK.
4. Powerful and well documented CLI tools
5. Flexible tuning for your branches and deploy contexts. Now we can build a preview for any commit, check it out via unique URL and then deploy for production for just a matter of several minutes.
Conclusion
Switching from Railway to Netlify has allowed us to take advantage of a more specialized platform for our Jamstack-based projects. With features like built-in forms, edge functions, image CDN, and a highly supportive ecosystem, Netlify offers a comprehensive solution tailored to our needs. Its robust CLI tools and flexible deployment options give us the ability to streamline our workflows and focus on delivering quality projects faster. As we continue to grow and evolve, Netlify’s scalability and open-source support make it the perfect partner for our future endeavors.
If you're considering a hosting provider optimized for modern web architectures, we highly recommend giving Netlify a try.
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