Scaling

Scaling your applications in Railway is made easy with configurable options for horizontal scaling as well as vertical autoscaling out-of-the-box.

How it Works

Vertical Autoscaling

By default Railway will scale your service up to the specified vCPU and Memory limits of your plan.

Horizontal Scaling with Replicas

Scale horizontally by manually increasing the number of replicas for a service in the service settings. Increasing the number of replicas on a service will create multiple instances of the service deployment.

Multi-region replicas

Multi-region replicas are exactly as advertised -- horizontally scaled replicas that are located in different geographic regions.

Once the feature flag is enabled, the service settings panel will reveal an interface for assigning replicas to different regions.

Creating, deleting, and re-assigning replicas will trigger a staged change which upon applying will trigger a redeploy.

Load Balancing Between Replicas

Railway will randomly distribute requests to the replicas of a service. If you need more advanced load balancing, you can use an external load balancer such as Cloudflare to distribute traffic between your services.

We plan to add more advanced load balancing strategies in the future.

Sticky Sessions

For now Railway does not support sticky sessions nor report the usage of the replicas within the metrics view.

Support

For information on how to use horizontal scaling with replicas, refer to this guide.