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Render is the new Heroku!
What do you like best about the product?
Render makes it easy to deploy code without having to deal with all the underlying architecture.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only downside is the amount of effort it takes to migrate from Heroku 😂
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Render lets us spin up new environments quickly and easily, which is great for us as a small team.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Sign up and give it a try - you can get started for a few dollars per month and it's easy to deploy from GitHub.
Can't live without Render
What do you like best about the product?
- Ease of starting, stopping and suspending a service.
- Private services.
- Auto deployement from git
- Private services.
- Auto deployement from git
What do you dislike about the product?
- The admin panel UI could be a bit better
- Documentation can be improved (had trouble with a private service, later figured out with support chat that services can only connect to others in the same region)
- Documentation can be improved (had trouble with a private service, later figured out with support chat that services can only connect to others in the same region)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Fast and convenient in hosting our apps.
I've told every dev and entrepreneur I know about this service
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use is hands down the best thing about Render. The docs are incredibly useful also. The free static websites put them over the top!
What do you dislike about the product?
Support is all in SF (I think), so if you're in the wrong timezone, it might take a while for them to get back to you. That said, the longest I've waited is 2 hours. Also the docs are excellent so if you pay attention, it's so easy to use the support won't be needed.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Going from development to production can be painful. Updating my apps is as simple as committing to GIT.
Honest Render Review
What do you like best about the product?
The most helpful thing that I found about render was it's "in few clicks deployment" and "easy to use interface". It saves a ton of time that get's wasted in services deployment. Also, Static site deployment is completely free, they don't even ask for a card for that.
What do you dislike about the product?
I have yet not found any downside about the platform.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I had a backend service that I had to quickly deploy. It was a serious project and involved covid help resources for end users. I had no time to waste configuring systems for deployment.
render is the obvious choice for rapid application development
What do you like best about the product?
It took me all of 20 minutes from setting up my Render account to launching my Django app that I already had in Github. I am also impressed by the great features that Render include building pull requests, logging, metrics, and other services like managed databases, static sites, and cron jobs.
What do you dislike about the product?
Render doesn't have a permanent free tier for managed services like Heroku, but their free trial does not require you to give them payment information which is an excellent policy.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I can rapidly write my Django apps and not have to worry too much about fiddling with infrastructure or unpredictable cloud computing costs.
The most honest Cloud Computing service I have seen
What do you like best about the product?
With Render, whatyou see is what you get. There are no hidden fees, no dark patterns like the big cloud providers to trick you into spending more.
What do you dislike about the product?
I didn't find support for FastAPI, raised it to them and they were very fast in implementing it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am hosting my APIs on Render. It's much easier to get started than on GCP or AWS.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I would recommend anyone using GCP, Azure or AWS to give render a go one-time, you won't regret it.
One of the best platforms to deploy your web apps.
What do you like best about the product?
Github Integration, automated deployments, free SSL certificates, great customer support, and reasonable pricing.
What do you dislike about the product?
The logs feature could be better, frequent downtimes (but they are resolved quickly.)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are currently hosting a few of our web services on Render. The Github integration allows us to automate deployments with deployment previews that help us test the app in staging before going live.
For every hour I spent on dev-ops previously, I spend less than 10 minutes with Render. Delightful!
What do you like best about the product?
Deploying lots of services from 1 file (Infrastructure as code), complete preview environments and autoscaling out of the box are awesome. Generally that I can forget about managing servers, and for a good price, too.
What do you dislike about the product?
I'm looking forward to more regions (e.g. London/UK) and cross-region availability.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
More time to do other things!
Amazing product
What do you like best about the product?
Central YAML configuration file works great for more complex project setups. Documentation is excellent, and the pricing is highly competitive!
What do you dislike about the product?
The project dashboard takes some getting used to at first.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Deploying an app to production is very quick and affordable.
Simple Docker Deploys for Any Stack
What do you like best about the product?
The new auto-scaling support is really great, and deployment/management of databases is ten times easier than Heroku.
Another benefit of Render is how active their founder is on Twitter. It's kind of rare in my experience for someone to be so involved in the community, and seeing Anurag on almost every Render post that I've seen espousing the benefits of Render or addressing concerns gives me a lot of confidence in using the product to solve the needs of my business.
Another benefit of Render is how active their founder is on Twitter. It's kind of rare in my experience for someone to be so involved in the community, and seeing Anurag on almost every Render post that I've seen espousing the benefits of Render or addressing concerns gives me a lot of confidence in using the product to solve the needs of my business.
What do you dislike about the product?
The company is still early on, so they aren't on the bleeding edge with Postgres upgrades, Redis support, etc. However, their roadmap looks really promising.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Deploying code to production is hard. I've tried bare metal, Heroku, Digital Ocean Apps Platform, AWS Lightsail, and others. Render makes management and billing easier than any of the rest.
I love how active the company is on their roadmap in terms of communicating with stakeholders, which gives me way more confidence than I have at Heroku with Salesforce running the show and not very many updates.
I love how active the company is on their roadmap in terms of communicating with stakeholders, which gives me way more confidence than I have at Heroku with Salesforce running the show and not very many updates.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you have a pretty straightforward stack, Render is 100% the right choice for you. If you have a really complex stack with Redis and Elasticache (or other tools), while it all seems to be supported, it's not quite as first-class as I think they're aiming to have in the future.
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