Deploy and Host Homarr on Railway

What is Homarr?

Homarr is a lightweight, modern dashboard and home server management tool that provides a unified interface for organizing and accessing your self-hosted services. Designed with simplicity and flexibility in mind, Homarr lets users quickly build an interactive homepage to monitor, launch, and manage various applications running across your infrastructure.

About Hosting Homarr

Hosting Homarr involves deploying a containerized web application that serves as the hub for your home-lab or self-hosted environment. On Railway, Homarr can be set up in minutes using pre-built templates or Docker images. You configure access to your services via environment variables or a config file and benefit from Railway's managed infrastructure—eliminating complex self-hosting steps. Continuous deployment, persistent storage setup, and secrets management are streamlined by Railway, making Homarr uptime and scaling simpler for both beginners and seasoned self-hosters.

Common Use Cases

• Central dashboard to monitor the status and access links of self-hosted applications.
• Personalized homepage for your home-lab, covering automation, media, and utility tools.
• Family or team landing page to share and manage access to important resources.

Dependencies for Homarr Hosting

• Docker (for running the Homarr container)
• Persistent storage/volume (to store Homarr configuration and data)

Deployment Dependencies

• Railway account and project setup
• Docker image reference for Homarr (e.g. linuxserver/homarr or ghcr.io/ajnart/homarr)

Why Deploy Homarr 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 Homarr 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.