Error 502 - Gateway - is this my Firewall now?

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I started being unable to connect this morning after no issues for weeks. Just checking that the server is up and it is an issue on my end - probably the firewall starting to block the traffic. If so I will need to only test at the house.

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We are hosted on Railway, and I saw they have posted a service announcement: We're investigating issues impacting deployments - Incident details - Railway - Status

This began about an hour ago, according to that page. I just checked, and at the same time, our logs show an issue - likely caused by their outage.

I apologise: I am working on understanding their outage now.

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They appear to have had multiple services shut down: their support threads are full of dozens of people whose services have terminated. Ours did the same. I have manually restarted, and will monitor their status page.

When we go officially live we should have a status monitoring / heartbeat page, I think, and we have also discussed running on our own service hardware, not Railway.

(I’ve used them for a couple of years and run multiple sites with them, and really liked them; they are the new Vercel or Heroku. But recently failures have occurred multiple times. They just raised $100M in a Series A and I hope they will put that towards service reliability.)

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Here is a HN thread on the outage: Railway (PaaS) global outage | Hacker News

And their post-mortem: https://blog.railway.com/p/incident-report-february-11-2026

They’ve been pretty open on the HN thread, which I appreciate – I personally really dislike the corporate approach where you just don’t know what’s going on, or there’s too much responsibility-avoidant language. It looks like they have an anti-fraud system, and they rolled out an update and it started taking down legitimate services.

There are lessons for us here too. All our other infrastructure is hosted on a different system, Azure, and CodeBot is here because I used Railway in the past and have been a fan of theirs, I find it an immensely useful and easy service, and so from the beginning I just shipped it there ‘because it worked’. Deployment and setup is incredibly easy and it freed me to work on coding the app, not worrying about servers. But our other infrastructure is more reliable, far more reliable (we track stats of course) and we should move CodeBot over.

When CodeBot is a paid service, outages like this would not be okay. IMO they are not okay even for a beta. I am sorry, and I also recognise that as the person who provisions and deploys CodeBot I am responsible for its uptime.

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I have just had this this morning.

"Error: 502: Bad Gateway - 502 Bad Gateway 502 Bad Gateway nginx/1.28.3 (Ubuntu) "

Since the error I have just downloaded the latest version.
It now gives me the same error and a long list of local drive project paths it can no longer find.

It’s also suggesting I need to renew my license.
Would that solve the issues ?
Thanks.

Additional Info
External exception E0428819 after selecting the “Switch account” button on codebot.

Delphi Codebot ver 0.8.5.45

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Hi Nigel,

Switching account - that is a known issue and will be resolved in the next build. You can click Manage Licenses to get the full license handling, includign re-downloading.

Re renewing your license, the best way is just to “buy” (for $0) a new license - that will add to it: Home | RemObjects Software

Re the actual error, 502, I am not sure. We are using a new server, and it may be related. I will ping internally and ask.

Regards,

David

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Hello David, thanks for the reply.

I eventually downloaded a license file and, after logging in again with a new password, I got codebot to see one of my earlier projects.

All seems ok now.

I noticed a minor typo in the password conformation email.
The word “you” below.

“Please use the new password to log into the website and you products.”

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Fixed, thanx!