Migration · From Railway

Usage bills are a choice

Railway makes deploys feel great — until the meter does the pricing. Impulse bundles the backend services Railway leaves to add-ons, on one flat monthly number.

Flat vs. Metered

Railway bills by usage. Impulse plans are one flat number with no per-GB, per-request math.

Batteries Included

Auth, search, cache, secrets, queues, and realtime are part of every project — not services you assemble.

Real Root Access

Need a custom runtime or daemon? Attach a Cloud VPS with full root — not a container abstraction.

What maps to what

Bring the data; simplify the architecture.

What you have

What it becomes

Railway PostgresManaged DB

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ImpulseDB Postgrespg_dump → pg_restore

Railway RedisAdd-on

→

ImpulseCacheRedis-compatible Valkey, drop-in clients

Railway VolumesAttached disk

→

ImpulseDriveS3-compatible object storage

App servicesContainers

→

Cloud VPS or hostingRoot servers, or Plesk/cPanel for web workloads

Cron & workersService instances

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ImpulseMessagingDurable queues with retries and DLQs

Auth (DIY)Roll your own

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ImpulseAuthOAuth, MFA, and user management included

The move, honestly

Standard tools, no proprietary export hostage situations.

Export your data

pg_dump the database, copy volumes to S3-compatible buckets with rclone.

Recreate the app

Deploy a project for the backend services; attach a VPS if your app needs a custom runtime.

Repoint DNS

Cut over when it works. Flat pricing makes running both during the switch painless.

Bring your Railway project over

Standard protocols make it a data move, not a rewrite — and during the beta our team helps you plan it. Open a ticket or talk to us first.

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