Render Reviews & Product Details

Coming from Heroku, the first thing I noticed about Render was how everything about deployment seems to "just work". It's such a refreshing experience to be able to follow their documentation, pertaining to your specific deployment, and not have to then scour the internet looking for the actual way to deploy with their service.

Further, Render automates your site's HTTPS/SSL (TLS nowadays, hopefully) and integrates with GitHub. They also make restricting external access to your database a breeze — security feels powerful and easy to implement with Render (most of it is handled for you).

And, if you have a question, their support staff is informative, kind, and timely. It's truly made deployment feel a lot less like "deployment" and more like... "we're live!" Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There really isn't anything I dislike at all. Are there things I'd like to see? Absolutely, and they have a feature request page where you can track all feature requests and make your own.

Perhaps one feature, is the ability to manually control the storage time of database logs. By default, Render keeps the logs for approximately 1-week and then they are deleted. This is great from a data policy point of view, but leveraging a finer-grained control over your logs is going to be sought after for most organizations (perhaps you want them deleted after 48 hours?). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tried first App Platform from Digital Ocean, but Render offers more capabilities at a similar price. You can create environment variables that can be shared between multiple services . If you need to, you can even host cron jobs or workers.

Another fact that should be mentioned is that the integration with GitHub makes deploying code really easy and the ability to host docker containers offers you a lot of options regarding what kind of service you want to host. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

A free database tier would have been great for development environments. Also it would be nice if it would offer support for hosting Java services out of the box, but I guess this can be easily solved by creating a Dockerfile for your Java service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Render is very easy to get started with and offers lots of options. Coming from Heroku, I have really liked the option for Environment Variable groups as well as the storage options. The customer support via slack is also really nice as I can chat with a human in real-time without having to create a ticket. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

When I need to restart the application or change an environment variable, it requires a full rebuild of my application before becoming live. It would be nice to not require a full rebuild as an option. In addition, my build process consumes a lot of memory and has exceeded a 4GB limit and was terminated without sufficient error messaging to let me know what the problem was and required insight from the support team. Finally, I would love to see more add-ons. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love the simplicity, linked to GitHub account so the repository discovery is automated and with just a pull i can deploy latest commit.

Easy to add env variable to environnement and the console show direct feedback and updating and installing package.

Very elegant Dashboard and amazing documentation with predefined template of different stack to use to deploy quick configuration and test. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't have a lot of experience for now, i tested Heroku and prefer Render by a large amount. Will comme back to it if i find any flaw. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

For me, the ability to get almost instant support on Slack or Discourse is super valuable. I can discuss specifics with other Render users even with Render engineers. That's really useful and not a standard at all.

Also the fact, that it's rapidly evolving and improving is very promising. All the last tech and features are being implemented. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I would like to have a bit cheaper service tiers available, especially for preview environments and toy projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Render is the most simple platform to create static websites Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

By now, I dont dislike anything at all in render. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

* Super simple deployment.

* Quick and easy setup for Ruby on Rails applications.

* You don't need to worry about SSL certificates, it's handled by you automatically.

* Uptime is impressive.

* Documentation is well written. Even beginners don't have a problem with the setup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

* Missing Cloud Object Storage. I would prefer to keep everything in one place but unfortunately, I had to use another provider for that.

* Missing ability to SSH into instances.

* Pricing for toy projects could be cheaper. To get a working basic Ruby on Rails app you need to pay for one service and one database. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I used render to create a cron job. It was pretty easy to use, and I got it up and running in 5 minutes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The cost. It's more expensive than other services for a cron job, but at $4 it's not breaking the bank or anything Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The simplicity to deploy and connect services with a matter of a couple clicks and a git push. The straightforward pricing! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Great support, easy to use, fair pricing and robust systems Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I a little more pricey than some other hosting option but it the price is fully justified by the excellent support and ease of use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Simple to setup and easy integration with Github workflows. Supports Elixir. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The Support teams don't seem to work in EU hours. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love the ease of configuration, specially when it comes to attaching services to each other Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

nothing really, hoping they continue growing and add extra features like CDN or etc, but for now they do exactly what they promise, and they do it well Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Everything is easy and the pricing is fair. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I would like to have serverless support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Straight-forward to use. Out-of-the-box Elixir support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Small add-ons offer. Constant issues with the build cache. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The UX is very pleasant and intuitive. An environment available for each Git branch is also very nice to have for testing purpose.

Automatic SSL is great too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Render is a relatively new service compared to other PaaS so you might encounter obscure edge cases sometimes but the support is very quick to answer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I really like that Render had pre-configured environments for building a Flask app. Plus, it has deploy hooks for new pushes to Github. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

You can't run tests before deploying (or at least I can't figure it out). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

If you move a repo, it takes reaching out to support to fix. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pull requests and hosted Postgres is what has saved me the most time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is not cheap and sometimes you want to pile more things together Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The speed and free static deploys, and the documentation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

$7 per month for services seems slightly high. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 💯 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.