Deploy and Host Listmonk on Railway

Listmonk is a self-hosted, high-performance newsletter and mailing list manager that enables businesses to send email campaigns and manage subscriber lists efficiently. It's an open-source alternative to platforms like Mailchimp, offering advanced features like campaign automation, audience segmentation, and comprehensive analytics while maintaining complete control over your subscriber data and email delivery infrastructure.

About Hosting Listmonk

Hosting Listmonk gives you access to a complete email marketing platform that manages subscriber lists, designs and sends email campaigns, and tracks engagement metrics without relying on external services. Listmonk offers a modern web interface for campaign creation, template management, subscriber import/export, bounce handling, and detailed analytics on open rates, click-through rates, and unsubscribes. The platform excels at managing large subscriber lists, sending high-volume campaigns, and providing granular control over email delivery while respecting subscriber privacy. Listmonk deployments benefit from Railway's SSL certificates, scalable hosting infrastructure for handling massive email volumes, and reliable uptime for scheduled campaigns. Railway provides database backup capabilities and monitoring tools to ensure your subscriber data and campaign history remain secure and accessible.

Common Use Cases

• Newsletter Publishing: Creating and sending regular newsletters, product updates, and content marketing campaigns to engaged subscriber lists with automated scheduling and template management.

• E-commerce Email Marketing: Managing customer email lists, sending promotional campaigns, product announcements, and abandoned cart recovery emails with advanced segmentation capabilities.

• SaaS Product Communications: Delivering onboarding sequences, feature announcements, product updates, and educational content to users with behavioral targeting and automation.

• Marketing Automation: Building complex email workflows, drip campaigns, and subscriber journeys based on user behavior, preferences, and engagement patterns.

Dependencies for Listmonk Hosting

Core Dependencies

• PostgreSQL - Primary database for storing subscriber data, campaigns, templates, and analytics

Deployment Dependencies

• Listmonk Docker Image - https://hub.docker.com/r/listmonk/listmonk

• Railway Templates Listmonk GitHub Repository - https://github.com/railwayapp-templates/listmonk

• Railway PostgreSQL Template - https://railway.com/deploy/postgres

Implementation Details

• Make sure to go into listmonk's settings menu and update the Root URL to your Railway generated or custom domain. Example: https://listmonk-production.up.railway.app (sans trailing slash).

• This template supports enabling CORS via the LISTMONK_ORIGIN_0, LISTMONK_ORIGIN_1, LISTMONK_ORIGIN_2, LISTMONK_ORIGIN_3, LISTMONK_ORIGIN_4 environment variables. Set one or more of these to your frontend domain(s).

Why Deploy Listmonk 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 scale it.

By deploying Listmonk on Railway, you get a complete self-hosted email marketing platform with minimal setup. Railway handles the database provisioning, SSL certificates, and environment configuration, letting you focus on creating engaging campaigns and growing your subscriber base while maintaining complete control over your email marketing data and delivery infrastructure.