Render Reviews & Product Details

- super easy setup with Github integration - team seems invested for the long haul and responsive to user feedback

I really wish cron jobs weren't billed separately! But I get it...

I need an easy way to host my app and Render is helping me do that with the least possible headache

Automatic Deployment, Flat Pay Model, Ease of Managed PostgreSQL Database Service. Intuitive UI and Dashboard controls,

It would help if Render were more widely known. We stumbled after multiple struggles with AWS and it would have saved us a lot of time as a young startup to have used Render from the beginning to minimize development time.

Render is helping us reduce development time significantly by managing automatic deployment. In addition, the managed database service is hassle-free and enables us to focus on adding features rather than database backups, etc. Plus, the flay pay model leads to predictable pricing, which is paramount for a young startup to avoid server spike-related costs.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Great documentation. Reliable service. Fantastic support.

- Cheaper instances for playground apps - Ability to SSH to instances

Needed a reliable service to host applications. Render's deployment docs made it incredibly easy to deploy my application.

* Easy to set up * You can create private services that aren't exposed to the internet * You can set up Elixir clusters (you can't do this on Heroku) * Reasonably priced * Built in cron jobs are more flexible than Heroku's scheduler options

Render is still a fairly new service, so it doesn't have as many features as Heroku. Especially around some of Heroku's great Postgres services.

We use Render for hosting our web app, including an internal service, API, and React frontend.

Easy integrations and configurations for fast reliable deployment

Currently a new entrant and missing some features but confident they'll get there in time

Super simple deployments I can rely on

Ease of use, especially with deployments & scalability. I can put autoscaling on or optionally scale instances myself from the service settings. Variety of potential services has also proven useful (private services, background workers, cronjobs etc)

As of writing this review, render's PostgreSQL's high availability mode is missing, but I understand it's currently under work. You can deploy a follower node, but it doesn't have automatic failover.

Render is a modern Heroku alternative. It makes reliable deployments & hosting available for everybody. I can personally spend more time coding the product rather than spend time with deployment & hosting.

Excellent IaC support out of the box. It makes configuring monorepo's super. I launched a docker and static site stack in half an hour.

IaC previews with multiple web stacks become paid plan by default.

Previously I was deploying to Google cloudrun and vercel to achieve the same outcomes as render does. Render makes this easier, and supports preview deploys

The speed and free static deploys, and the documentation

$7 per month for services seems slightly high.

I'm looking for very fast deploys and integrations at low cost.

Simple to set up, while having enough configuration available (via infrastructure as code) to satisfy our needs. Tonnes of guides for various tools and frameworks. Feedback driven and super helpful support on Slack 💯

Nothing I dislike, just features that I'd love to see added: audit log for teams, mandatory 2FA for teams, restrictions on who has permission to modify / delete the database, and horizontal database scaling (like on RDS with a cluster of read replicas).

We don't need to touch any complex infrastructure with many levels of abstraction and obscure services. Render gives us a super simple way to deploy our applications so we can focus on building our product, not on messing around with infrastructure

Lot's of value for a relatively low price. Easy to use application. Supports most common ways to deploy apps and services.

While new features are being added and the offering is also quite solid on its own, Render could have more integrations with other systems. Some additional metrics would be nice-to-have.

Deploying and running a Node.js microservice works without issues. I'm happy with the overall performance and availability.

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.

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.

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.

Easy cloud solution for your servers. GitHub integration and automatical updates, auto-scaling, cheapest plans and perfect support. Docker or Git - it doesn't matter - the services works perfect. Support Go, NodeJS, partically PHP and other products from the box.

What is missing is the easy deployment of any PHP applications, as was done with Node solutions.

Fast servers instance creation from git, cheapest cloud services and auto-scaling, fully support of different backend languages and databases. We can update our repository on the git - and after 4 minutes - it's online!

Enjoy quick and easy scalability with Render, which allows you to adjust your application resources on the fly without the need for manual server management or infrastructure upkeep. Protect your application from unauthorized access with Render's security features, which include free SSL certificates and private networking options. Keep costs low while still getting powerful cloud deployment features with Render, which offers competitive pricing and a variety of free services to help make deploying your web apps and sites more affordable.

Render's limited language support may pose an issue for developers who favor languages other than Node.js, Python, Ruby, or Go. Although Render's built-in services can be time-saving, they may not offer the flexibility and customization options provided by third-party services, which may be a drawback if your application has unique requirements.

Render is tackling the challenge of simplifying the deployment and management of web applications and websites in the cloud for both developers and teams. It achieves this by offering a user-friendly interface that allows developers to sidestep the complexities of setting up infrastructure, configuring servers, and managing network security, tasks that can be time-consuming and require a high degree of technical proficiency. By using Render, developers can concentrate on developing their applications while the platform handles the infrastructure and server management for them.

Render gives us peace of mind running our API backends. Basically, Render started where Heroku stopped. So you get many required features, to name a few: * Infrastructure-as-service via a yaml file * Auto-scale web services by CPU/RAM. In contrast to Heroku where it's made by P99/P95 latency. I can’t stress enough how better and correct is Render's auto-scale by CPU/RAM is. It's super fast and responsive, saves us big $$$ and quick to handle traffic spikes. * env var groups so you would not repeat yourself defining the same envs multiple times.

Some missing features in REST endpoint. More regions support.

worry-free backend APIs

Probably the simplest PaaS on the market that I have tested. I tested Virtuozzo, Heroku, AWS, ... but nothing satisfied me for a decent cost. Render ticks all the boxes. The high availability, the security, the community and the low price convinced me to use it in production and I don't regret it.

I have only been using it for a short time, but I haven't found any major flaws yet. I miss for the moment a maintenance mode to disable my website with a custom page

I can focus on the code. Render manages all the complexity of the release and the infrastructure. I can roll back if a release doesn't work well, the server restarts automatically if an error occurs... I can go home with a clear head

I like the access to private disks that are not available in Heroku, as well as a Signapore region closer to my customers. Heroku only has Europe and NA.

Lack of 24/7 support, and slow reply on the community forums, lack of support in comparison since it is relatively new

Saving my business money on hosting per month. Allowing closer regions to host for my customers.