Deploy and Host crikket on Railway

What is crikket?

crikket is an open-source platform for building and managing creator memberships, digital products, communities, and subscription-based businesses. It provides authentication, payments, media storage, member management, and a modern web interface, making it a self-hostable alternative to platforms like Patreon, Gumroad, or Circle.

About Hosting crikket

Hosting crikket requires deploying multiple interconnected services: a frontend web application, backend API server, PostgreSQL database, and object storage for uploads and media assets. The platform is distributed as containerized services, making it well-suited for modern infrastructure platforms like Railway.

On Railway, crikket can be deployed using separate services for the web app and API server while leveraging Railway-managed PostgreSQL and external S3-compatible storage such as Cloudflare R2. Railway simplifies networking, environment variable management, HTTPS provisioning, scaling, and service orchestration so you can focus on running your creator platform instead of managing infrastructure.

Common Use Cases

• Launching a creator membership platform with subscriptions and gated content
• Selling digital products, courses, and downloadable assets
• Building a private online community with authentication and media hosting

Dependencies for crikket Hosting

• PostgreSQL database
• S3-compatible object storage (such as Cloudflare R2)

Deployment Dependencies

• crikket Documentation
• crikket GitHub Repository
• Railway
• Cloudflare R2

Implementation Details

Example Railway service structure:

Crikket Web Criket Server Crikket Postgres Crikket Storage Crikket Migrate

Example environment variable references:

Criket Server

DATABASE_URL=${{Crikket Postgres.DATABASE_URL}} BETTER_AUTH_URL=https://${{Criket Server.RAILWAY_PUBLIC_DOMAIN}} CORS_ORIGINS=https://${{Crikket Web.RAILWAY_PUBLIC_DOMAIN}}

Crikket Web

NEXT_PUBLIC_APP_URL=https://${{Crikket Web.RAILWAY_PUBLIC_DOMAIN}} NEXT_PUBLIC_SERVER_URL=https://${{Criket Server.RAILWAY_PUBLIC_DOMAIN}}

Why Deploy crikket 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 crikket 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.