Render Reviews & Product Details

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.

I've worked in this field for decades and I've done it all. Used Heroku. Used AWS. Used DigitalOcean. Used my own bare metal servers. Used "shared hosting". Used top Jamstack hosts like Netlify and Vercel. Render has jumped to top of the field in my opinion. Deploying new websites and applications on Render is a breeze, the price is most certainly right, and the support crew there is fantastic.

There are a few "niceties" I miss currently when using Render, such as direct SSH (you have to use their web console), managed Redis (you have to deploy via a one-off container), or built-in object storage. But they're adding new features at a rapid clip. I expect it won't be long before they're competitive across the board.

Host static sites, Ruby applications, databases—the works. Unless you have very specialized or demanding needs, Render will get the job done.

I love how quickly the automated builds are, and how simple it was to get set up after moving from Heroku and other providers. I think the expansion of their features into cron-jobs and the likes, coupled with their super competitive pricing - they feel like the best provider to build on for my applications. The abstractions they have created for getting set up means I'm not wasting time trying to figure everything out. Their documentation & step-by-step guides have helped me get started quickly and now I've been using Render for a little over 8 months. Overall I recommend them highly and look forward to what they expand to over the coming year!

Sometimes the UI around deployments isn't as smooth as It could be - mostly around updating the state of the deployment without refreshing. I also think that the logs could be presented in a clearer way - it doesn't feel like the most modern logging UI. These are minor though to the benefits I get.

Lightning-fast deployments and implementation of new services - it's so simple to start up a node application and be running live with an SSL certificate and custom domain.

Render takes the pain out of development. It's incredible. Within 2 minutes, you can be deploying your projects on Render. But despite the speed and ease of development, Render does not compromise. You get world-class CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and many other incredible features. I have helped multiple people and companies start using Render. They have all saved time in setting up their infrastructure.

When I first started using Render, the availability of services was a concern. Availability is something the Render team has addressed recently, and I haven't been affected in a while.

I'm deploying and maintaining multiple microservices with a complex CI/CD pipeline with Render. I must have an infra stack that lets me focus on building new features. Render allows me to abstract away infra and work on my core business.

I really enjoy how quickly you can go from zero to fully deployed with Render. The automatic GitHub integration is also excellent, with pull request review apps created for you in real time.

I haven't found anything I dislike yet; it all seems to work well. It is a speedier alternative to Heroku for bootstrapping a new project quickly.

I am working on side projects and need a quick deployment solution that doesn't require much devops skill or a lot of overhead. Render provides that for me perfectly.

The platform makes it easy to go from commit to deploy with zero setup required. I like how much less setup is required compared to Google Cloud and AWS. The integration with Github is amazing.

The only thing I hope comes soon, is Docker builds straight from a registry! The platform offers a way to do this currently, it just requires a bit of extra configuration.

I am able to deploy my applications much faster than in the past. Before, I would spend much more time configuring lower level platform like Google Cloud and AWS.

I moved all my web services and Static sites from places like Heroku and Netlify because Render just works and gives me rest. The pricing is transparent and affordable for indie makers like me who want to build out my ideas and not break the bank with accumulated billings(looking at you, Heroku). Render also focus on developer love by giving you tools to make sure you deploy your code with rest. Look at something like Environment variable groups; for example, let's you create a reusable fgroup of environment variables that you can use in both staging and production. This simple feature, as it may seem, has saved me a whole lot of time redefining environment variables.

I don't dislike anything about Render, to be honest. Everything works great. Sure there is always room for improvement, but no deal-breaker for me!

Quickly deploying all my web services and web sites

The pricing is very competitive compared to similar features on heroku. It is simple to use and take away most of the dev-ops burden.

The documentation has not handle as many edge cases as other more mature tools, but they answer your email in a heartbeat.

Previously using AWS, migrating the server to Render solved maintenance and dev ops at a fair price. Migrating to Heroku for the same benefits would have been unthinkable because of the cost.

Ease of use,support and I especially love the pricing model. It is cheaper than a lot of competitors and actually is faster in my testing! I love the UI and interface too.

Nothing as of yet! It would be nice if, when creating a service through a blueprint, that it redirects you to the service once created. Right now it sits there forever.

Primarily we are solving our backend API service hosting solution and database. In future, we are looking at bringing many more services into Render and using that as our base for various domains and apps.

- Infrastructure as code, lets me duplicate hosting for multiple projects - Cheap - Much cheaper than Heroku - Databases - Everything is all in one places

Only a few regions so far, but easy to fix!

Hosting all of my projects and side projects. It takes me less than 5 minutes to go from 0 to production