The Sovereign Railway Alternative in India
Full-stack cloud infrastructure without unpredictable usage spikes.
Should you switch from Railway?
Move off Railway if usage-based billing has become unpredictable or your users are in India. TejasDeploy gives flat rupee pricing and the same container workflow in Noida. Stay on Railway if you value its developer experience above cost and location.
Who should move, and who should stay
Switch to DataDack if
- Teams surprised by usage-based invoices
- Indian user bases on US-hosted infrastructure
- Projects that have grown past hobby scale
Stay on Railway if
- You are still prototyping and the free tier covers you
- You value Railway's DX more than price or latency
- You rely on its template ecosystem
Why teams move from Railway to DataDack
Priced in rupees
Flat monthly or hourly compute in INR. Prices exclude GST. A GST invoice is issued. Traffic inside a VPC is ₹0/GB.
ap-south-3 Noida
Tier-IV facilities in Noida (ap-south-3). Data stays in India. Consent and retention under the DPDP Act stay with your application.
DDoS Protection
Always-on L3/L4 volumetric attack mitigation standard on every single virtual instance.
DataDack vs Railway pricing
A DataDack virtual machine starts at ₹1,150/mo (₹2.53/hr) for 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM and 30 GB SAS HDD. Prices exclude GST. A GST invoice is issued. Billing is hourly, with a monthly cap. The table is DataDack's rate card. Railway's list price is not published here, so this page does not invent a percentage.
Reserved monthly rates in the Noida ap-south-3 region.
| Specification | DataDack |
|---|---|
| 2 vCPU / 4 GB RAM / 30 GB SAS HDD | ₹1,150/mo (₹2.53/hr) |
| 4 vCPU / 16 GB RAM / 30 GB SSD | ₹6,500/mo (₹14.25/hr) |
| 8 vCPU / 16 GB RAM / 30 GB NVMe | ₹11,330/mo (₹24.83/hr) |
- L3/L4 DDoS protection is included on every plan
- One IPv4 address is included
- Traffic inside a VPC is ₹0/GB
- Tenant bandwidth is 1 Gbps shared
Detailed Feature Matrix: DataDack vs Railway
Side-by-side technical and operational benchmark comparison
| Feature / Capability | DataDack Cloud | Railway |
|---|---|---|
| Billing Model | Predictable Reserved Monthly / Hourly | Per-minute dynamic micro-billing |
| Indian Sovereign Latency | Sub-10ms across North India | US-West / EU-Central default |
| Dedicated Hardware Tiers | Intel Xeon Platinum Dedicated VMs | Shared multi-tenant containers |
| Enterprise DDoS Shield | Included standard on all nodes | Standard CDN edge |
Moving off Railway, step by step
- Step 1Inventory what runs on Railway today — instance sizes, disks, open ports and DNS records.
- Step 2Pick the matched DataDack plan and create the instance in the console, in the Noida ap-south-3 region.
- Step 3Move the data: restore from a snapshot or image, or sync the application and database over the VPC.
- Step 4Lower the DNS TTL, cut traffic over to the new IPv4 and verify, then destroy the source instance — billing stops the same hour.
What carries over unchanged
A move off Railway is a re-host, not a rewrite. These come with you as they are:
- Your Linux distro and kernel
- Docker and docker-compose files
- Nginx, Caddy or HAProxy configs
- Your CI pipeline - only the deploy target changes
- SSH keys and your existing automation
- Postgres, MySQL, Redis and their dumps
- Cron jobs and systemd units
- Your domain and TLS certificates
DataDack vs Railway: common questions
- How does DataDack's pricing compare with Railway?
- A DataDack virtual machine starts at ₹1,150/mo (₹2.53/hr) for 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM and 30 GB. Prices exclude GST. A GST invoice is issued. L3/L4 DDoS and one IPv4 are included. Traffic inside a VPC is ₹0/GB. This page does not state a percentage against Railway, because no matched list price for Railway is published here.
- Where do workloads run after moving off Railway?
- In Noida (ap-south-3), inside Tier-IV facilities operated by Yotta NM1 and CtrlS. Data stays in India. Mumbai is announced and is not a region you can deploy into today. Storing data in India is not the same as the DPDP Act duties that stay with your application: consent, purpose and retention remain yours.
- Is DDoS protection included?
- L3/L4 mitigation is included on every VPS and VM, including the smallest plan. It is not a separate line on the DataDack rate card. Whether another provider includes the same thing is that provider's page, not a claim this one makes for them.
- How is bandwidth billed?
- Tenant bandwidth is 1 Gbps shared. Traffic between subnets inside a VPC is ₹0/GB. A NAT gateway is a flat monthly charge, with no per-GB processing surcharge on top. There is no unmetered attachment and no 10 Gbps tenant port.
- How do I move a single instance off Railway?
- Inventory the instance, the disk and the DNS record. Create a published DataDack plan in Noida, restore an image or sync the application and the database, lower the DNS TTL, then cut over. The new instance bills hourly, with a monthly cap. Managed databases and object storage are not on the DataDack rate card yet, so a move that depends on those stays on Railway until they are. Ask on /contact if you want an engineer on the first cutover.