Deploy and Host Postgres + PgBouncer on Railway

Postgres is a powerful open-source relational database. PgBouncer is a lightweight connection pooler that sits in front of Postgres, managing database connections efficiently. Together, they provide a scalable, production-ready setup that reduces overhead, improves performance, and ensures your app can handle more traffic with fewer database bottlenecks.

About Hosting Postgres + PgBouncer

Hosting Postgres with PgBouncer means you get a database plus a smart connection manager in one setup. Applications connect to PgBouncer, which manages and reuses connections to Postgres behind the scenes. This reduces resource usage, prevents connection floods, and keeps performance stable in production. On Railway, this is fully managed—simply deploy the template and focus on building your app instead of configuring database infrastructure.

Common Use Cases

Scaling web apps that frequently open and close DB connections
Lowering resource overhead in production environments
Ensuring stable app performance under heavy load

Dependencies for Postgres + PgBouncer Hosting

Docker containers (handled by Railway under the hood)
PgBouncer + Postgres Docker images

Deployment Dependencies

Why Deploy Postgres + PgBouncer 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 Postgres + PgBouncer 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.