Replit App Migration

Deployments
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Hello there! I am new to vibe coding and have no experience deploying my projects. I just finished developing an App for a client and would like to have some help migrating my App to a hosting provider, like Hostinger. I may deploy the App right here in Replit if I have a clear picture of the costs.

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Why do you want to move it? Replit has fantastic deployments and reasonable, industry norm prices.

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I would keep it on Replit to start. I doubt the pricing for deployment would differ much.

With that said, I now use Replit as my “builder” and then push the files to GitHub (serves as a backup) and then GitHub pushes it to Railway (very very inexpensive hosting).

I learned the process by asking Replit how to do it. It felt overwhelming at first and very foreign (I’m also s mere newbie vibe coder), but now I can create a new Repl and get all the other pieces set up in 2 minutes.

For me, the positives of doing this are important.

  1. GitHub (which is free) has all of my files in case Replit ever goes down or goes out of business.

  2. GitHub only keeps the files. Not any databases you might have. Having Railway serves as a database backup, live hosting area, and a 3rd backup - Replit (1), GitHub (2), Railway (3).

  3. To learn how to do this, I used Replit Agent to walk me through it. It was all easy. Now when I make a change in one of my applications, I just push the “Sync to Git” button and that’s it. It goes to GitHub and GitHub pushes it to Railway automatically.

  4. It scares me to be fully dependent on 1 company (for many reasons). Being in business over 20 years has taught me a lot :slight_smile:

Hope that’s helpful.

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Is it possible to hire you as a freelancer to:

  1. make my system a real multi-tenant application
  2. Setup my GitHub account and establish the updating pathway
  3. To migrate the Application to Railway or Digital Ocean.

I have three additional projects for deployment.

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