Railway Is Having a Major Outage

Wait… railway runs on GCP? Didn’t they make a whole thing about not “building a cloud on top of another cloud?”

Or did they just mean that they’re not renting VPSs but only metal from the cloud provider?

In my mind I was so excited that there was another provider not just paying one of the hyperscalars but at a minimum colocating and owning more of their stack. https://blog.railway.com/p/heroku-walked-railway-run

Sorry, I have a hard time blaming Google for this, when Railway seems to be having increasing trouble keeping the platform stable. Something like this should NOT take down an ENTIRE service. There should be a backup when literally your business is about being the reliable backend. This just seems like poor planning to me.

I respect what railway is doing but also would never run my business on such a platform.

Isn't Railway the "the API key to delete the backups is in the prod database, because that's where the backups live duh" guys?

Google cloud also locked out a Korean Goverment Organization recently. The guy posted on GCP subreddit.

Google really need to improve their support team. It's strange such a big corp can't even afford to have proper support team.

That explains why all my vibe-coded hobby projects are down.

Thank God I'm not dealing with any public-facing sites! Would have been an expensive lesson for a newbie coder if my job depended on this.

I’m a new customer and have been falling in love with Railway over the last 2 weeks, but this is quite the wake up call.

This screenshot from Discord suggests the idea that the outage is caused by automated GCP account ban: https://x.com/acgfbr/status/2056866780866351323

Yikes. I was wondering why my TLS certs were coming up as invalid.

so....what are we switching to y'all? cloud-run ? ;P

all my fkn postgres bd in railways! what do i do now?

seems like it's every day

TL;DR: putting all your eggs into one basket is bad, man.

so...what are we switching to yall? cloud-run :P