Render Reviews & Product Details

I like that you can spin up db instances or services with a few clicks and a few details. Their support is top notch and responsive.

If you move a repo, it takes reaching out to support to fix.

I have spun up DBs and APIs. They make it very simple to do any of them and the documentation is really good.

Render is constantly adding new features to an already fully stacked hosting service and not just their own features, it appears they take an honest consideration into what their users want added because I constantly see the requests by us in the feedback area getting added to the roadmap. Support is fantastic, infrastructure as code deployments, rollbacks, pull request previews, documentation "with" example code repositories, my favorite host by far.

The logo and color... sorry :( imho it should be something complimentary to the services or the "feeling" you get with the product; resilient, performant, trusted.

deployment time, uptime, performance, cost, list can go on.

Easy to deploy web apps with just a Github link!

Not as advanced as AWS or GCP but gets the job done for most proejcts.

Deploying servers, databases, etc

The simplicity to deploy and connect services with a matter of a couple clicks and a git push. The straightforward pricing!

As a fairly new cloud provider there are a few things missing, like serverless functions and auto-scaling. But the team is very responsive and very feedback driven.

Render simplifies my deployments. I do not need to mess with virtual networks, ip adresses, doing a lot of configuration to simply connect a web app service to a database. It's also makes it very simple to deploy static websites with support for a lot of frameworks.

Pull requests and hosted Postgres is what has saved me the most time

It is not cheap and sometimes you want to pile more things together

I want to focus on solving business problems, not setting up servers and services.

Render is amazing, it's a cloud plataform that makes it easy to build, distribute, and run any application or site. Whether you need static pages, a dynamic web, a database, or a custom Dockerfile, Render has everything you need. Render offers free TLS certificates, global CDN, DDoS security, private systems, and Git automatic deployment. What I love about Render is that it simplifies server, infrastructure, and container management. You can focus on your code and let Render do the rest. Render too offers a assortment of free levels and reasonable plans to suit your needs. Also, what I like most approximately Render is that it contains a exhaustive documentation and user-friendly interface. You can effectively review your controls, access logs, design configurations, and troubleshoot issues. You can also find support guides, tutorials, and examples.

I think Render seems to be making progress as there are some highlights that are still in beta or being improved. However, features such as WebSockets and serverless features are not fully supported. Additionally, some customers may prefer greater customization and control over management, such as the use of SSH or custom namespaces.

Render is profiting me by giving a helpful and powerful way to host my web projects. I can center on building my applications and websites without stressing around the foundation or the taken a toll. I can too collaborate with other designers and share my work with the world. Render may be a great choice for anybody who needs to form and run web applications and websites within the cloud.

Central YAML configuration file works great for more complex project setups. Documentation is excellent, and the pricing is highly competitive!

The project dashboard takes some getting used to at first.

Deploying an app to production is very quick and affordable.

Their free static sites and being able to connect unlimited custom domains through an API.

Their prices are a bit expensive but it is worth it.

They solved the problem of custom domains for my clients.

Github Integration, automated deployments, free SSL certificates, great customer support, and reasonable pricing.

The logs feature could be better, frequent downtimes (but they are resolved quickly.)

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.

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.

I'm looking forward to more regions (e.g. London/UK) and cross-region availability.

More time to do other things!

The ease of deployment combined with the detailed documentation.

I haven't come across anything yet that I dislike but who knows, I might have something once I've used it much longer.

I am building a personal blog.

For a novice like my self, render was excellent, it was easy to set up and get going. Its cheap, stable and support on slack is outstanding.

The docs could imporve a bit, it has a few holes in it and are not as mature as lets say Heroku. But then again, you have exellent slack support!

It makes me go to production really fast, as a freelancer i don't have a dedicated dev ops team, render solves all my problems easy and cost effectively.

Render dashboard gives excellent features to create & manage IaC services and moderates our infrastructure whenever we push changes to our production environment. We can create new instances which are customizable through its Blueprint Spec feature. It also has excellent resource discovery provisions for our existing resources and we can incorporate changes in them to synchronize our cloud services with Render YAML scripts.

We can set up cron jobs through our GitHub repositories in the Render platform. We define the runtime environment based on our needs and drop our cron job code in the branch of our repository. We need to specify whether the cron job requires background workers or not, else the job execution will be stopped if it runs for more than 12 hours. It doesn't have any downside to be mentioned based on its platform service provided for our AWS environment.

We initiate our Amazon ECR code push from our GitHub Enterprise repository and link packages & API dependencies for our zero-downtime deployments. Its Health Check automatically restarts our applications if they are unresponsive or return errors. We can also enable its Auto deploy option to trigger new deploy whenever we push our code. Render CLI is effective to track our job execution status on a real-time basis, overview events & action items for our Amazon Elastic Container Registry service.

Render's bandwidth allocation for our DB instances is great as it allows upto 100GB per month in Egress configurations. Whenever we experience variable load, it offers scalability features which can be both manual scaling or autoscaling. Monitoring of these scaling instances can be simply done in its Events tab present in its service dashboard. It also provides a load balancer in front of our instances so that it distributes our network request traffic evenly to our web services.

None actually. It automatically performs our build & deploys instances which Git repository webhooks can define. We can schedule our service deployments using its cron jobs effortlessly. We can trigger our builds for our static web applications from its CMS systems without adding headers or additional authentication.

We can create Redis instances that Render totally manages, thereby promoting secure & reliable services. It supports high throughput with low latency reads & writes, which is flexible for our caches & datastores. PostgreSQL deployments are also feasible as Render ensures essentialities such as encryption at rest, backup automation, and scalable SSD storage. We provision read-only access for database instances using Read Replica policy to reduce the workload on our primary database & to have better database administrative control.

Everything is easy and the pricing is fair.

I would like to have serverless support.

Static site hosting, api hosting and Db hosting from you one supplier. Preview builds for PR reviews that include the whole stack.

It's free to develop and deploy many other services (like Node js) and can be integrated to provide one click CICD setup with VCS like GitHub

Its free tier is terribly slow in both in case of deployment and in case of server start time after the server is moved to sleep state.

It solves many problems regarding the deployment process like to setup CICD, and also provides a free development server so that we don't have to pay from day one for our new projects

Others find it good, so I guess it might be, but it's not for me.

They need to fix the pricing descriptions. I had one failed deployment that in Google Cloud and Azure is not charged, but was charged in Render.com. Also the pricing says 90 days free PostgreSQL, but was charged at the end of the first month. Also github integration was taking too long to be completed.

Instant deployment

easy to deploy many scripts like wordpress and ghost

their snapshots are not reliable, one day I tried to restore a snapshot of my services IDs: mysql-wordpress-48ha wordpress-48ha after 10 days of negotiations with customer service and the community they told me this: Hi Anass, unfortunately the restore process for MySQL databases (and therefore WordPress sites) might have required more explicit backup requirements. BTW, even they don't give us root access, and the SSH key didn't allow us to connect to external backup service provider +360 days +4000$ in the trash, I'm damaged literally

fast deploy scripts

- 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.