Render Reviews & Product Details

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

- Ease of starting, stopping and suspending a service. - Private services. - Auto deployement from git

- The admin panel UI could be a bit better - Documentation can be improved (had trouble with a private service, later figured out with support chat that services can only connect to others in the same region)

Fast and convenient in hosting our apps.

Render makes it easy to deploy code without having to deal with all the underlying architecture.

The only downside is the amount of effort it takes to migrate from Heroku 😂

Render lets us spin up new environments quickly and easily, which is great for us as a small team.

Ease of use is hands down the best thing about Render. The docs are incredibly useful also. The free static websites put them over the top!

Support is all in SF (I think), so if you're in the wrong timezone, it might take a while for them to get back to you. That said, the longest I've waited is 2 hours. Also the docs are excellent so if you pay attention, it's so easy to use the support won't be needed.

Going from development to production can be painful. Updating my apps is as simple as committing to GIT.

The most helpful thing that I found about render was it's "in few clicks deployment" and "easy to use interface". It saves a ton of time that get's wasted in services deployment. Also, Static site deployment is completely free, they don't even ask for a card for that.

I have yet not found any downside about the platform.

I had a backend service that I had to quickly deploy. It was a serious project and involved covid help resources for end users. I had no time to waste configuring systems for deployment.

With Render, whatyou see is what you get. There are no hidden fees, no dark patterns like the big cloud providers to trick you into spending more.

I didn't find support for FastAPI, raised it to them and they were very fast in implementing it.

I am hosting my APIs on Render. It's much easier to get started than on GCP or AWS.

The new auto-scaling support is really great, and deployment/management of databases is ten times easier than Heroku. Another benefit of Render is how active their founder is on Twitter. It's kind of rare in my experience for someone to be so involved in the community, and seeing Anurag on almost every Render post that I've seen espousing the benefits of Render or addressing concerns gives me a lot of confidence in using the product to solve the needs of my business.

The company is still early on, so they aren't on the bleeding edge with Postgres upgrades, Redis support, etc. However, their roadmap looks really promising.

Deploying code to production is hard. I've tried bare metal, Heroku, Digital Ocean Apps Platform, AWS Lightsail, and others. Render makes management and billing easier than any of the rest. I love how active the company is on their roadmap in terms of communicating with stakeholders, which gives me way more confidence than I have at Heroku with Salesforce running the show and not very many updates.

The Static site hosting and Ease of use just like plug and play ! Its like selecting your options and its deployed

Nothing as such Pricing is really good awaiting a longer trial period no dislikes at all

They are solving problems of scalablity and Management of Servers as its Managed by render now

Simple to setup and easy integration with Github workflows. Supports Elixir.

The Support teams don't seem to work in EU hours.

Helps speed up Elixir / Phoenix deployments painlessly.

It's so much more affordably priced and faster than Heroku. I think my project's response time was up to 30-70% faster on Render. And this is up to 70% cheaper than what Heroku offers for the same dyno specs (1GB RAM, etc) The developer experience is also quite pleasant. There's a command line that's very speedy, and somehow much faster than heroku run console CLI

Nothing much but that it's still lacking Pipelines (Continuous Integration) that Heroku offers. And lacking a more vibrant add-on ecosystem, which Heroku has.

Conveniently hosting my projects at a very affordable price. The benefits are that they're much cheaper and faster and the developer experience is almost, if not on par with Heroku.

Render is the most simple platform to create static websites

By now, I dont dislike anything at all in render.

Render helped me to turn the dream of a blog to become reality and I have full control of it in a simple and clean interface. It doesnt charges me for this static blog and gives me the opportunity to point my own domain to the site. The integration is so simple that I just had to authorize'em in my git project and set 2 commands to get a full working continuous deployment pipeline. I'm just amuzed

Straight-forward to use. Out-of-the-box Elixir support.

Small add-ons offer. Constant issues with the build cache.

Bootstrapping a digital product without having to worry too much about infrastructure.

As a full-stack javascript developer coming from Heroku, I'm blown away by ease-of-use and price. The dashboard is dead simple to use, but it still lets my personalize my services and configurations. Deploying is super easy. I have 2 services - a vue app and a node server - hosted on Render, and I paid like $6 last month.

Render is relatively new, so it doesn't support all the same tech that larger hosting providers have. I've had some issues with deploys, but the team helped me get them resolved.

I'm hosting my fronted + backend on render. I needed to deploy everything very quickly (needed to be rolled to production over a weekend), and I was able to get going on Render really quickly.