Render Reviews & Product Details

Render makes it easy to deploy code without having to deal with all the underlying architecture.

The only downside is the amount of effort it takes to migrate from Heroku 😂

Render lets us spin up new environments quickly and easily, which is great for us as a small team.

- Ease of starting, stopping and suspending a service. - Private services. - Auto deployement from git

- 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)

Fast and convenient in hosting our apps.

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!

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.

Going from development to production can be painful. Updating my apps is as simple as committing to GIT.

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.

I have yet not found any downside about the platform.

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.

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.

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.

I can rapidly write my Django apps and not have to worry too much about fiddling with infrastructure or unpredictable cloud computing costs.

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.

I didn't find support for FastAPI, raised it to them and they were very fast in implementing it.

I am hosting my APIs on Render. It's much easier to get started than on GCP or AWS.

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.

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.

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.

Fast to create multiple environments, pull request previews, etc. all without managing devops.

The product is still new so it doesn't support everything, but the team is fast and adding new features to fill gaps.

Running multiple environments quickly.

instant access to github, and github branches, easy to setup ci/cd pipeline

not much, probably the one thing I wish was there was a UI to make building the render.yaml easily

I want to setup dbs, react, flask app easily. was also mindblown that I could setup the databse that easily and exactly the format that was needed

The Static site hosting and Ease of use just like plug and play ! Its like selecting your options and its deployed

Nothing as such Pricing is really good awaiting a longer trial period no dislikes at all

They are solving problems of scalablity and Management of Servers as its Managed by render now