Deploy and Host Flare on Railway

What is Flare?

Flare is a modern, self-hostable file-sharing platform designed to make sharing files simple, secure, and efficient. With an intuitive web interface, robust access control, and support for storage backends like Postgres, Flare enables individuals and teams to reliably upload, manage, and distribute files with ease.

About Hosting Flare

Hosting Flare involves deploying its web application and storage components so your files can be shared securely across devices and users. Railway provides an official Flare deployment template that takes care of server configuration and integrates with managed Postgres databases. You simply supply environment variables, such as session secrets, and Railway orchestrates builds, networking, persistent storage, and scaling. This setup ensures a worry-free, production-ready Flare instance with minimal setup, automatic updates, and easy rollback—perfect for both quick prototypes and scaling teams.

Common Use Cases

Secure internal file sharing and collaboration within organizations
Hosting public download links for software, reports, or media files
Centralized document storage with user authentication and access logs

Dependencies for Flare Hosting

Railway account (for infrastructure management and deployment)
PostgreSQL database (for file metadata, users, and session storage)

Deployment Dependencies

Why Deploy Flare 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 Flare 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.