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The modern cloud provider for all your apps and websites.
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What is Render?

Render is a cloud service provider that offers hosting and deployment solutions for applications, websites, databases, and other web services. Similar to platforms like AWS, Google Cloud, and Heroku, Render aims to simplify the deployment and scaling of applications.

Company Render, Inc.
Year founded 2018
Company size 11-50 employees
Headquarters San Francisco, California, United States
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73 Render Reviews
4.7 out of 5
Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Mar 01, 2021
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Overall Rating:
5.0
Daniel M. avatar
Daniel M.
Founder & Product
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"Takes the pain out of Elixir deployments"
What do you like best about Render?

Simple to setup and easy integration with Github workflows. Supports Elixir.

What do you dislike about Render?

The Support teams don't seem to work in EU hours.

What problems is Render solving and how is that benefiting you?

Helps speed up Elixir / Phoenix deployments painlessly.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Feb 16, 2021
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Overall Rating:
5.0
Gabriel C. avatar
Gabriel C.
Senior Student Mentor
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"Very Fast, Very Affordable, Good Developer Experience (DX)"
What do you like best about Render?

It's so much more affordably priced and faster than Heroku. I think my project's response time was up to 30-70% faster on Render. And this is up to 70% cheaper than what Heroku offers for the same dyno specs (1GB RAM, etc) The developer experience is also quite pleasant. There's a command line that's very speedy, and somehow much faster than heroku run console CLI

What do you dislike about Render?

Nothing much but that it's still lacking Pipelines (Continuous Integration) that Heroku offers. And lacking a more vibrant add-on ecosystem, which Heroku has.

What problems is Render solving and how is that benefiting you?

Conveniently hosting my projects at a very affordable price. The benefits are that they're much cheaper and faster and the developer experience is almost, if not on par with Heroku.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Feb 13, 2021
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Overall Rating:
5.0
Murillo Cesar B. avatar
Murillo Cesar B.
Software Developer
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"Render helped me make a dream come true"
What do you like best about Render?

Render is the most simple platform to create static websites

What do you dislike about Render?

By now, I dont dislike anything at all in render.

What problems is Render solving and how is that benefiting you?

Render helped me to turn the dream of a blog to become reality and I have full control of it in a simple and clean interface. It doesnt charges me for this static blog and gives me the opportunity to point my own domain to the site. The integration is so simple that I just had to authorize'em in my git project and set 2 commands to get a full working continuous deployment pipeline. I'm just amuzed

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Feb 11, 2021
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Overall Rating:
5.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Excellent support and service"
What do you like best about Render?

Great support, easy to use, fair pricing and robust systems

What do you dislike about Render?

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 Render 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.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Feb 10, 2021
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Overall Rating:
5.0
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Zura G.
Cto
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"Game-changer for small dev teams"
What do you like best about Render?

Straight-forward to use. Out-of-the-box Elixir support.

What do you dislike about Render?

Small add-ons offer. Constant issues with the build cache.

What problems is Render solving and how is that benefiting you?

Bootstrapping a digital product without having to worry too much about infrastructure.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Feb 08, 2021
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Overall Rating:
5.0
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Shobhit S.
Ceo
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"User-friendly, cheap service hosting"
What do you like best about Render?

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 Render?

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 Render 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.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Feb 07, 2021
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Overall Rating:
5.0
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Mark T.
Co Founder And Ceo
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"Render - deployment that just works"
What do you like best about Render?

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!"

What do you dislike about Render?

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?).

What problems is Render 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.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Feb 06, 2021
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Overall Rating:
5.0
Andrei B. avatar
Andrei B.
Software Engineer
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"Render is a great alternative to Heroku or App Platform from Digital Ocean"
What do you like best about Render?

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.

What do you dislike about Render?

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 Render 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.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Feb 05, 2021
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Overall Rating:
5.0
Alex R. avatar
Alex R.
Software Engineer
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"Great easy to use service"
What do you like best about Render?

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 Render?

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 Render solving and how is that benefiting you?

I'm solving a twitter bot.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 29, 2021
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Overall Rating:
5.0
Philippe L. avatar
Philippe L.
Architecte Logiciels
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"Discovering JAMSTACK via Render"
What do you like best about Render?

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.

What do you dislike about Render?

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 Render 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.