Packaged MicroBin as a one-click Railway deploy — pastes now live on my own disk

Packaged MicroBin as a one-click Railway deploy — pastes now live on my own disk

I got tired of handing config dumps and stack traces to public pastebins that log every view, so I wanted something I actually controlled. Ended up wrapping MicroBin — a minimal self-hosted pastebin and file sharer — into a Railway template so anyone can spin up their own instance without touching Docker Compose: https://github.com/INAPP-Mobile/microbin

The concrete bit that made it work: MicroBin keeps an in-memory index of pastes but writes the actual content to a mounted volume, so redeploys don't wipe your data — but that means the operator cost is real disk usage. Every abandoned log or image pasted "just for now" sits on that volume until you delete it, and on Railway you're paying per GB. I set a 30-day burn-after-reading default on my instance to keep the bill sane.

If you want pastes that only you can read, this is the shape of it.