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[Docs]: Update docs with regards to Railway's pricing model update #8823

Open drikusroor opened 1 year ago

drikusroor commented 1 year ago

Summary and description

Currently, the docs advise using Railway as our database in the cloud because:

it's a) free and b) ridiculously easy to get started

Now, as a Railway user myself, today I received an email from Railway saying their pricing model will change. Apparently, they already announced this about a month ago.

The happy medium we’ve found is thus:

By default, Railway will cost $5 per month

You’ll be able to try it for free, but if you wanna keep using it after your initial one-time $5 free credit, it’ll cost $5 / mo.

This means that, technically, Railway isn't free anymore. You'll get a free $5 credit, but after that you'll have to pay.

Should we update the docs by mentioning this, look for another free cloud provider, or is this not important enough to mention at all?

Are you interested in working on this?

Josh-Walker-GM commented 1 year ago

Hey @drikusroor, thanks for pointing this out! From my perspective I think we should update the docs because you're right it's not free anymore and that's what we currently say.

Others might have a better suggestion, and they can jump in if they want to, but my suggestion would be to look to update the paragraph that includes the intro to railway:

We're going to go with Railway for now because it's a) free and b) ridiculously easy to get started, by far the easiest we've found. You don't even need to create a login! The only limitation is that if you don't create an account, your database will be removed after one day. If you think you can finish everything you need to do in the next 24 hours, go for it! Otherwise just create an account first and it'll stick around.

and address the following:

  1. It's not free, they give a free trial of their $5/m hobby plan. (that's right yeah?)
  2. It's still very easy and you can still have the 24 hour temp db without even logging in.

Feel free to search for a different free provider and let us know but I'm not sure when we'll be updating the tutorial at that level. Maybe when we're updating our docs for Redwood RSC which will be coming in a future major.