Railway vs Render vs Your Own Cloud Account: What Actually Fits a Scaleup Outgrowing Managed PaaS
An honest 2026 comparison of Railway, Render, Fly.io and deploying into your own AWS, GCP, Azure or Scaleway account - with the six measurable signals you have outgrown managed PaaS, a priced cost model, and a four-step framework with if-then verdicts. Romaric founded Qovery to make Kubernetes accessible to every engineering team. He writes about platform strategy, developer experience, and the future of cloud infrastructure.