I feel like I'm probably missing something obvious, but how can I stop/start/restart my app? The only way I've found is to change some setting, which issues a redeploy, but that seems inefficient.
#Is there an easy way to restart my app?
smoky lantern
potent flicker
Click into your last active deploy. Then open the Command Palette and type "Restart"
We don't allow you to pause deploys but you can delete them or rollback to a previous deploy.
smoky lantern
May I ask why you can't pause them?
potent flicker
You may, no question too off-topic.
The product answer is: when a deploy is a paused. It still takes up Deployment Space on our infra as we need to store the state of the formerly running application. I think you’ll agree a user shouldn’t pay for a paused application. However, there is still a cost on the infra keeping a deploy in a suspended state. Hence why we don’t offer that option.
Philosophically: We view deployment state to be immutable. When you pause an application you introduce interesting side effects as well. It’s also partially why we don’t allow SSHing into deploys.
Related: https://docs.railway.app/deploy/deployments#deployment-lifecycle
Most production applications are designed to be up 24/7 so we try to optimize for that use-case. If an app needs to persist state, we recommend it being persisted on a DB or external Filesystem.
(Although we should add a re-deploy button in case someone wants to redeploy a latest or certain commit.)
fair leaf
So the app is up always? Would it go to inactive state when being unused to reduce execution hours?
potent flicker
The app is up always unless you delete it.