Railway
Simple hosting for apps that need a backend or database.
What is Railway?
Railway is a hosting platform that handles more complex apps — ones with databases, background jobs, or custom servers. Easier than AWS, more powerful than Vercel for backend-heavy apps.
Railway automatically detects your framework and builds your project. It supports databases, cron jobs, and multiple services all in one platform.
In Vibe Coding
Railway is ideal when your vibe coded app needs more than just frontend hosting — like a database, background email sender, or cron jobs. It handles the infrastructure Vercel can't.
Example
For example: Your app needs to send a weekly email digest to all users. Vercel can't run scheduled tasks, but Railway can — you deploy your cron job and it runs every Monday at 9am.