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Excellent support and service
What do you like best about the product?
Great support, easy to use, fair pricing and robust systems
What do you dislike about the product?
I a little more pricey than some other hosting option but it the price is fully justified by the excellent support and ease of use.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Building a site for an Indie startup. The site works perfectly and is very fast. The flexible pricing structure is greatly appreciated. The simple and easy to use systems have allowed us to focus on our product instead of technical issues.
Game-changer for small dev teams
What do you like best about the product?
Straight-forward to use. Out-of-the-box Elixir support.
What do you dislike about the product?
Small add-ons offer. Constant issues with the build cache.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Bootstrapping a digital product without having to worry too much about infrastructure.
User-friendly, cheap service hosting
What do you like best about the product?
As a full-stack javascript developer coming from Heroku, I'm blown away by ease-of-use and price. The dashboard is dead simple to use, but it still lets my personalize my services and configurations. Deploying is super easy. I have 2 services - a vue app and a node server - hosted on Render, and I paid like $6 last month.
What do you dislike about the product?
Render is relatively new, so it doesn't support all the same tech that larger hosting providers have. I've had some issues with deploys, but the team helped me get them resolved.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I'm hosting my fronted + backend on render. I needed to deploy everything very quickly (needed to be rolled to production over a weekend), and I was able to get going on Render really quickly.
Render - deployment that just works
What do you like best about the product?
Coming from Heroku, the first thing I noticed about Render was how everything about deployment seems to "just work". It's such a refreshing experience to be able to follow their documentation, pertaining to your specific deployment, and not have to then scour the internet looking for the actual way to deploy with their service.
Further, Render automates your site's HTTPS/SSL (TLS nowadays, hopefully) and integrates with GitHub. They also make restricting external access to your database a breeze — security feels powerful and easy to implement with Render (most of it is handled for you).
And, if you have a question, their support staff is informative, kind, and timely. It's truly made deployment feel a lot less like "deployment" and more like... "we're live!"
Further, Render automates your site's HTTPS/SSL (TLS nowadays, hopefully) and integrates with GitHub. They also make restricting external access to your database a breeze — security feels powerful and easy to implement with Render (most of it is handled for you).
And, if you have a question, their support staff is informative, kind, and timely. It's truly made deployment feel a lot less like "deployment" and more like... "we're live!"
What do you dislike about the product?
There really isn't anything I dislike at all. Are there things I'd like to see? Absolutely, and they have a feature request page where you can track all feature requests and make your own.
Perhaps one feature, is the ability to manually control the storage time of database logs. By default, Render keeps the logs for approximately 1-week and then they are deleted. This is great from a data policy point of view, but leveraging a finer-grained control over your logs is going to be sought after for most organizations (perhaps you want them deleted after 48 hours?).
Perhaps one feature, is the ability to manually control the storage time of database logs. By default, Render keeps the logs for approximately 1-week and then they are deleted. This is great from a data policy point of view, but leveraging a finer-grained control over your logs is going to be sought after for most organizations (perhaps you want them deleted after 48 hours?).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Render has made it a breeze for me to rapidly deploy and test in a live staging environment. Further, with the benefits of using Elixir, I can quickly and easily scale by adding additional hardware and resources to both my application service and database service with a few simple clicks of a button.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Spin them up and give it a try, it's about $14 a month to test drive with a working database and server instance. Worst case scenario, you're out $14 bucks for that month, best case scenario you just made deployment no longer a nightmare for your team.
Render is a great alternative to Heroku or App Platform from Digital Ocean
What do you like best about the product?
Tried first App Platform from Digital Ocean, but Render offers more capabilities at a similar price. You can create environment variables that can be shared between multiple services . If you need to, you can even host cron jobs or workers.
Another fact that should be mentioned is that the integration with GitHub makes deploying code really easy and the ability to host docker containers offers you a lot of options regarding what kind of service you want to host.
Another fact that should be mentioned is that the integration with GitHub makes deploying code really easy and the ability to host docker containers offers you a lot of options regarding what kind of service you want to host.
What do you dislike about the product?
A free database tier would have been great for development environments. Also it would be nice if it would offer support for hosting Java services out of the box, but I guess this can be easily solved by creating a Dockerfile for your Java service.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Render really helps me to focus on what really matters, writing code. Managing DevOps stuff can be pretty hard and usually takes a lot of time so this can really be a game changer.
Great easy to use service
What do you like best about the product?
I used render to create a cron job. It was pretty easy to use, and I got it up and running in 5 minutes.
What do you dislike about the product?
The cost. It's more expensive than other services for a cron job, but at $4 it's not breaking the bank or anything
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I'm solving a twitter bot.
Discovering JAMSTACK via Render
What do you like best about the product?
I love the simplicity, linked to GitHub account so the repository discovery is automated and with just a pull i can deploy latest commit.
Easy to add env variable to environnement and the console show direct feedback and updating and installing package.
Very elegant Dashboard and amazing documentation with predefined template of different stack to use to deploy quick configuration and test.
Easy to add env variable to environnement and the console show direct feedback and updating and installing package.
Very elegant Dashboard and amazing documentation with predefined template of different stack to use to deploy quick configuration and test.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't have a lot of experience for now, i tested Heroku and prefer Render by a large amount. Will comme back to it if i find any flaw.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I'm very new to the Jamstack world and found that render was the most direct (no hidden cost) service for my tinkering and later production environments.
Included CDN, Brotli compression, HTTP2 serving and automated SSL are amazing for a dev like me coming from full stack world where i have to manage all services myself.
I'm creating a full static e-commerce website with Strapi as a backend (hosted on Render, Node service with persistent Disk) and NuxtJS static e-commerce also served via Render static website.
Included CDN, Brotli compression, HTTP2 serving and automated SSL are amazing for a dev like me coming from full stack world where i have to manage all services myself.
I'm creating a full static e-commerce website with Strapi as a backend (hosted on Render, Node service with persistent Disk) and NuxtJS static e-commerce also served via Render static website.
Hosting made easy and fair
What do you like best about the product?
Everything is easy and the pricing is fair.
What do you dislike about the product?
I would like to have serverless support.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Static site hosting, api hosting and Db hosting from you one supplier. Preview builds for PR reviews that include the whole stack.
Friendly to use PaaS
What do you like best about the product?
Really easy to deploy my next.js app as a node server. I like that it integrates with Github to automatically deploy PRs and latest merge to the main branch. I also love that it comes with zero downtime deploys on the cheapest instance. Something Heroku does not make available until you pay for the professional-grade servers.
What do you dislike about the product?
The service is pretty new so the documentation is pretty sparse. Additionally they only have 2 deploy regions, US West and Germany. My database is in a different region (US central) with a different provider so there is some roundtrip latency.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I launched a low traffic next.js site on Vercel to use their easy serverless functions, but the low traffic meant every user was hitting a lambda cold start that was making the app very slow. Moving over to Render and deploying a node app has made my site load faster and saved me money with the lower monthly fee.
So easy to deploy
What do you like best about the product?
I really like that Render had pre-configured environments for building a Flask app. Plus, it has deploy hooks for new pushes to Github.
What do you dislike about the product?
You can't run tests before deploying (or at least I can't figure it out).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We wanted a really simple deploy process that would also make sure that our services kept running smoothly. Render satisfies both!
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