Deploy and Host MCPHub on Railway

MCPHub is a hub for Model Context Protocol servers. It runs and manages many MCP servers, stdio or remote, from one dashboard and exposes them through a single Streamable HTTP or SSE endpoint, with groups, per-server routes, smart tool routing, bearer keys and users. AI clients connect once instead of configuring every server.

About Hosting MCPHub

This template runs the official samanhappy/mcphub:1.0.40 image as one service. The bootstrap admin user gets a generated ADMIN_PASSWORD (the upstream default admin123 does not work), the dashboard API needs a login, and the MCP endpoints need a bearer key you create in the dashboard. Server settings, users and keys are stored in mcp_settings.json on a Railway volume at /app/data, so they survive redeploys. Stdio servers are started with npx or uvx inside the container, so they share its CPU and memory. It fits the Hobby plan for a handful of servers.

Common Use Cases

One MCP endpoint for Claude, Cursor and other AI clients
Hosting stdio MCP servers remotely for a team
Grouping tools per project with separate endpoints and keys

Dependencies for MCPHub Hosting

samanhappy/mcphub:1.0.40 (official image)
A Railway volume at /app/data

Deployment Dependencies

Implementation Details

Service	Source	Networking	Storage
mcphub	`samanhappy/mcphub:1.0.40`	public domain on 3000	volume at `/app/data`

Connect a client to all enabled servers:

{ "mcpServers": { "hub": { "url": "https:///mcp", "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer " } } } }

Variable	Default	Purpose
`ADMIN_PASSWORD`	generated	Password for the bootstrap `admin` user
`JWT_SECRET`	generated	Signs dashboard sessions
`INSTALL_BASE_URL`	`https://`	Public URL shown in install snippets

Notes:

Create bearer keys in Settings → Keys; keys with access type "all" also work for the dashboard API.
Use /mcp/ or /mcp/ for narrower endpoints.
The container runs as root upstream; only add MCP servers you trust.

This is a community-maintained deployment package and does not imply affiliation with or endorsement by the MCPHub project.

Why Deploy MCPHub 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 MCPHub 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.