Railway alternative for high-RAM bot/server?

We’re currently hosting our application on Railway, but we’re running into a pretty annoying limitation. Our RAM usage occasionally spikes, and when it does, the server crashes. We’d happily just pay Railway for more RAM/resources, but apparently that isn’t an option without moving to their Enterprise plan. The pricing jump is ridiculous for our use case, basically 5x+ what we’re currently paying.


At the moment we’re spending around $500–700/month, so we’re definitely not looking for $10 bargain hosting. We just want something with a lot more RAM/resources and preferably the ability to scale without suddenly being pushed into an enterprise contract. I already know the obvious providers like Hetzner, DigitalOcean, AWS, etc. I’m more interested in hearing about lesser-known providers, particularly Asian/Eastern European providers. I’ve heard there are some very competitive Vietnamese, Chinese and Russian hosting companies, but I don’t know which ones are actually reliable.To be clear, we’re running a bot/application with legitimate traffic. There’s no spam, DDoS, malware, scraping abuse, blackhat/greyhat activity, etc. So we don’t need bulletproof hosting or anything along those lines.

Main priorities are:

Lots of RAM / high RAM limits
Good CPU performance
Stable network
Ideally easy scaling
Budget around $500–700/month, potentially higher if the hardware/value makes sense

Anyone running something similar who can recommend providers outside the usual Hetzner/AWS/DO ecosystem?

The fact that you won't run spam or BlackHat surely makes it easier as you can look into more options.

We've used servers in Russia once we needed additional servers for mailing back in the day, with our email list management company, and there were no issues.
Apart from that paying for the service became much more difficult after the sanctions.

In this case I'd advise to look for a provider that runs all that you need on their own infrastructure, so you can easily scale or ask for a custom setup, if needed.

RAM became expensive due to the AI data centers outbreak, but you may find some that may have a ready to run server available with the past RAM prices included.
AWS can get expensive fast, especially if you'd need cloud where you pay for CPU / RAM / Storage - the transfer costs can run insane.

There are more cost effective solutions, I'd advise to look for hourly pricing and auto-scale at a decent rate.
Also don't get locked into a long term contract, that's a bad sign - look for a host that's confident enough to let you run on a monthly plan.

The best to inquire with sales with your exact requirements, I'm confident there's a much better setup available in the price range that you mention.