al mokhtar
@almokhtarbr
Backend Systems Go • Ruby on Rails • zig
- https://railyard.run
- 46.7, -71
- railyard.run
- github.com/almokhtarbr
- Joined October 2026
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Deploy, roll back and fix your apps from your iPhone
https://railyard.run/ios/
RailyardRailyard for iPhone and iPad: deploys, logs and serversDeploy, roll back and restart apps, follow live logs, watch server load and approve risky changes with Face ID from your iPhone or iPad. Coming soon to the App Store.
Yesterday
Sat, Nov 7
Anatomy of a disguised botnet deploy: how we caught a hidden C2 bot on our platform and automated the defense
https://railyard.run/blog/anatomy-of-a-disguised-botnet-deploy/
RailyardAnatomy of a disguised botnet deploy: how we caught a hidden C2 bot on our platform and automated the defense · RailyardA new signup deployed an app that looked ordinary and was actually an obfuscated remote-access bot. Here is the full breakdown — the loader, the decoded payload, why our container isolation contained it, and the deploy-time scanner that now blocks the whole class automatically.
Thu, Nov 5
"Locked" Unix accounts aren't always locked. Here's a bug that's been sitting in plain sight since the 1980s, and why most people reading this are quietly exposed to it through a container they didn't write.
Background, because the mechanism is the whole story:
A locked account…
Wed, Nov 4
The new dark landing page for Railyard looks super clean, especially the breakdown showing Postgres, Redis, and queue workers deploying straight onto your own Hetzner or DigitalOcean box.
🚨 Looking for a powerful, open-source alternative to Notion or Confluence?
Stop paying per-user SaaS fees and take back control of your data.
Whether you need a collaborative workspace for your team or a personal knowledge base, we’ve got two incredible options you can deploy…
RailyardSelf-host AFFiNE (full stack) on your own server · RailyardDeploy AFFiNE on a server you own. Railyard provisions all 3 services together, with HTTPS and your domain set up automatically. Free plan, no card.
Fri, Oct 30
Northflank Is Breached: The Shared-PaaS Model Has Officially Collapsed
With six major, lightning-fast breaches hitting multi-tenant cloud platforms PingCAP/TiDB, Fireworks AI, Zeabur, OpenCode Console, Railway, and now Northflank—the signal is unmistakable: the shared-tenant…
RailyardRailyard: deploy full-stack apps to servers you ownDeploy your frontend, backend, Postgres, Redis and workers to servers in your own DigitalOcean, Hetzner or Vultr account. Flat price per team, no markup on compute.
Northflank Breached (https://status.northflank.com/)
This is why you should try BYOS https://railyard.run
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Thu, Oct 29
Tired of paying the "Heroku tax" but hate vendor lock-in? (https://railyard.run/)
I built Railyard to give you that same seamless PaaS developer experience, but it deploys full-stack apps and databases directly onto servers you own (DigitalOcean, Hetzner, Vultr). Why switch?
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RailyardRailyard: deploy full-stack apps to servers you ownDeploy your frontend, backend, Postgres, Redis and workers to servers in your own DigitalOcean, Hetzner or Vultr account. Flat price per team, no markup on compute.
Tue, Oct 27
Tired of paying the "Heroku tax" but hate vendor lock-in? (https://railyard.run/)
I built Railyard to give you that same seamless PaaS developer experience, but it deploys full-stack apps and databases directly onto servers you own (DigitalOcean, Hetzner, Vultr). Why switch?
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RailyardRailyard: deploy full-stack apps to servers you ownDeploy your frontend, backend, Postgres, Redis and workers to servers in your own DigitalOcean, Hetzner or Vultr account. Flat price per team, no markup on compute.
Your MCP docs say deploy_app builds the latest commit. Can it target a specific SHA? With multiple agents working in parallel, I’d want to deploy the exact revision that was reviewed, even if another commit landed in the meantime.
Rails on a €8.99 server with the Heroku workflow. Here's the guide:
https://railyard.run/docs/rails/?utm_source=devnull&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=autopilot&utm_content=post-46
RailyardRails · Docs · RailyardDeploy a Rails app with Postgres, workers, Solid Queue, Tailwind assets and Rails 8 extra databases.
Your database on your own server, backed up on a schedule and restorable to a point in time.
https://railyard.run/features/?utm_source=devnull&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=autopilot&utm_content=post-42
RailyardFeatures · RailyardCanary releases, rollback with variables, managed databases with standbys and point-in-time restore, log drains, edge rules, autoscaling and SSO. On servers you own.
Mon, Oct 26
Tired of cold starts? Apps on your own server don't sleep. Railyard keeps the git push workflow.
https://railyard.run/?utm_source=devnull&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=autopilot&utm_content=post-41
RailyardRailyard: deploy full-stack apps to servers you ownDeploy your frontend, backend, Postgres, Redis and workers to servers in your own cloud account. Flat price per team, no markup on compute.
Rails on your own server: git push, migrations run, zero-downtime swap, Sidekiq and Redis kept running
https://railyard.run/docs/rails/?utm_source=devnull&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=autopilot&utm_content=post-36
RailyardRails · Docs · RailyardDeploy a Rails app with Postgres, workers, Solid Queue, Tailwind assets and Rails 8 extra databases.
Tired of paying the "Heroku tax" but hate vendor lock-in? (https://railyard.run/)
I built Railyard to give you that same seamless PaaS developer experience, but it deploys full-stack apps and databases directly onto servers you own (DigitalOcean, Hetzner, Vultr). Why switch?
•…
RailyardRailyard: deploy full-stack apps to servers you ownDeploy your frontend, backend, Postgres, Redis and workers to servers in your own DigitalOcean, Hetzner or Vultr account. Flat price per team, no markup on compute.
Loved! it instantly when I see the headless CI/CD without setting up any complex pipelines and also with felxibility of underslying infrastrucute, specially brining it own bare metal servers.
Sun, Oct 25
The shortcut: do it with Railyard
Everything above, Postgres and Redis wired to all three Rails-based processes, the streaming service split out with its own routing, Sidekiq sharing the media volume, is also what Railyard’s Mastodon stack template sets up for you. Connect a…
Self-host a Mastodon server ?
Running your own corner of the fediverse means running five things that all have to agree with each other: a Rails web process, a separate streaming server for the real-time timeline, a Sidekiq worker for federation and notifications, Postgres, and…
RailyardSelf-host a Mastodon server · RailyardRun a real Mastodon instance with Postgres, Redis, the streaming API and Sidekiq as separate services, behind Caddy HTTPS, with backups.
Self-host a Mastodon server ?
Running your own corner of the fediverse means running five things that all have to agree with each other: a Rails web process, a separate streaming server for the real-time timeline, a Sidekiq worker for federation and notifications, Postgres, and…
RailyardSelf-host a Mastodon server · RailyardRun a real Mastodon instance with Postgres, Redis, the streaming API and Sidekiq as separate services, behind Caddy HTTPS, with backups.
The shortcut: do it with Railyard
Everything above, Postgres and Redis wired to all three Rails-based processes, the streaming service split out with its own routing, Sidekiq sharing the media volume, is also what Railyard’s Mastodon stack template sets up for you. Connect a…
