Deploy and Host Offen Fair Web Analytics on Railway

About Hosting Offen Fair Web Analytics

Offen is a fair and privacy-friendly web analytics platform. It provides consent-aware event collection, a user-facing auditorium, and an operator console without depending on a hosted analytics vendor. This template pins Offen v1.4.2.

Common Use Cases

Privacy-respecting website analytics
First-party traffic and conversion reporting
Consent-aware analytics for small teams
Self-hosted alternatives to centralized tracking platforms

Dependencies for Offen Fair Web Analytics Hosting

Deployment Dependencies

The template creates a public Offen service and a private PostgreSQL service with persistent storage. DATABASE_URL is a cross-service reference and must not be replaced with a serialized credential.

Implementation Details

The Offen service owns the public domain and exposes /healthz. It waits for PostgreSQL, runs migrations, and creates the first operator from OFFEN_ADMIN_EMAIL, OFFEN_ADMIN_PASSWORD, and OFFEN_ACCOUNT_NAME. Setup is idempotent across redeploys. The root analytics account uses ID 6194a127-70e8-4af8-9f4c-31eab3c60cf9.

OFFEN_SECRET is generated as valid base64 key material. Add /script.js from the generated Offen domain to your site with the root account ID. SMTP is optional but required for dependable password-reset and invitation email.

Why Deploy Offen Fair Web Analytics on Railway?

Railway supplies managed HTTPS, private service networking, persistent PostgreSQL, generated secrets, and health-driven deploys. The result is a small, reproducible analytics stack with deliberate upstream upgrades.