Render Reviews & Product Details

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

- 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

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.

UI simplicity, excellent and comprehensive documentation in a single place, responsive support and a roadmap with up/down voting support

Not so many regions just yet, no SLA just yet

Simplifying deployment process and saving our hosting budget

This platform is easily one of the best platforms I've ever used, the interface is really handy and the whole service is useful for getting you the best experience with deployments without having to have a DevOps course or a professional for that. One thing I have to say is that the documentation of the platform is very comprehensible and helpful. Can´t forget that unlike other platforms this platform doesn´t block you at anything asking for your credit card unless you have to pay for that. This platform is awesome for small or big projects, I'm enjoying it.

I didn't have any problems with the platform yet, I think the prices are very accessible and didn´t have any problems that I needed to contact the support team or anything like that.

Currently, I have an open-source project that's starting to take form and render is helping me afford all the costs of hosting it, one of the objectives of the project was being easy to deploy and render did actually really help me

Very easy to set up and deploy. Deploy is just a push to your repository.

I have been using it for a year or so and so far I have not found anything I don't like. Maybe paid support for people or companies who really want it? They may already have it. I don't like how generic the name is (Render). It makes it difficult to recommend it to people.

Deploying a Ruby on Rails application very easily and with options to scale it at a reasonable price if needed.

Render is the best way to deploy websites. It's free, way faster than Github Pages, and can set up without any big hassle. Unlike Vercel, it also supports deployments in other languages like the dotnet framework.

Since 2022 there's a limit of minutes of deploys when using static sites; this makes me think more when I deploy a new version not to waste any deploy minutes left.

Render is sometimes slower to deploy, but it's worth the wait. I've experienced more than 10x the speed on render compared to Vercel, Github Pages and Heroku. Render gives me hope that smaller/newer companies can beat those in the business for years.