Is a railway serverless for an API or server better than non serverless?

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You’ll have to test for yourself to see if Railway’s serverless option even works for your game server

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I know it scales down to 0 if no traffic is occuring
which can cause some delays

However it might be better for cost

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It’s possible that an incoming connection would wake up the service, but also equally as possible that your service will just stay sleeping, depending on the setup

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yes, which would be a risk you’d have to be willing to take

it’s absolutely better for cost as RAM and CPU will scale to 0

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make a wake up call system ⏰

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An incoming request to join/ping the server should theoretically wake it up, but again that’s something you’ll have to test for yourself

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so serverless is a good idea though?

just need to have that answered in the sense of cost (I have no worries about delays)

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If it works for your service, yes

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amazing! okay question asked, and answered
seems its all solved...

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great!

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