Deploy and Host Abacus on Railway

What is Abacus?
Abacus is a modern, open-source integer counter API (“Integer as a Service”) that lets developers track numeric events—such as website hits, button clicks, or custom metrics—using simple, unlisted counters. Abacus provides a lightweight, serverless-compatible solution for tracking usage analytics, feature adoption, or any integer-based metric via HTTP, with CORS and scalable backend.

About Hosting Abacus

Hosting Abacus on Railway enables developers to quickly launch their own real-time API for tracking counters and analytics events. Simply deploy the Abacus Docker image or Node.js service to Railway, configure a key-value backend like Valkey (or Redis), and set up your domains/namespaces. Railway automates infrastructure, persistent storage, environment management, security, and scaling needs. Developers can expose secure HTTPS endpoints for increment, get, reset, and badge SVG rendering, all with high-performance serverless infrastructure and built-in rate limiting.

Common Use Cases

• Website page view tracking: Instantly count and display the number of visits or interactions on any web page.
• Button click counters: Track how many times a specific button or action is used in a web or mobile application.
• Real-time event metrics: Power dashboards and live analytics by incrementing counters for custom events (e.g., signups, errors, actions).

Dependencies for Abacus Hosting

• Valkey or Redis database: For high-speed key-value storage backing all counters.
• Node.js runtime or Docker container: To run the Abacus server.

Deployment Dependencies

• Abacus Official Page
• Abacus GitHub Repository (check if repo is public/linked)
• Valkey (Key-Value DB)
• Railway Redis Template

Why Deploy Abacus on Railway?

Railway is a singular platform to deploy your infrastructure stack. Railway will host your infrastructure so you don't have to deal with configuration, while allowing you to vertically and horizontally scale it.
By deploying Abacus on Railway, you are one step closer to supporting a complete full-stack application with minimal burden. Host your servers, databases, AI agents, and more on Railway.