Render Reviews & Product Details

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lack of 24/7 support, and slow reply on the community forums, lack of support in comparison since it is relatively new Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ease of use, especially with deployments & scalability. I can put autoscaling on or optionally scale instances myself from the service settings. Variety of potential services has also proven useful (private services, background workers, cronjobs etc) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As of writing this review, render's PostgreSQL's high availability mode is missing, but I understand it's currently under work. You can deploy a follower node, but it doesn't have automatic failover. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

easy to deploy many scripts like wordpress and ghost Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

their snapshots are not reliable, one day I tried to restore a snapshot of my services IDs:

mysql-wordpress-48ha

wordpress-48ha

after 10 days of negotiations with customer service and the community they told me this:

Hi Anass, unfortunately the restore process for MySQL databases (and therefore WordPress sites) might have required more explicit backup requirements.

BTW, even they don't give us root access, and the SSH key didn't allow us to connect to external backup service provider

+360 days +4000$ in the trash, I'm damaged literally Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Others find it good, so I guess it might be, but it's not for me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

They need to fix the pricing descriptions. I had one failed deployment that in Google Cloud and Azure is not charged, but was charged in Render.com. Also the pricing says 90 days free PostgreSQL, but was charged at the end of the first month. Also github integration was taking too long to be completed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

UI simplicity, excellent and comprehensive documentation in a single place, responsive support and a roadmap with up/down voting support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not so many regions just yet, no SLA just yet Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.