Render Reviews: 4.7/5 — Highly Rated

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.