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Yaron L.

architect

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/24/2023

"Super powerful PaaS"

5/5

What do you like best about Render?

Render gives us peace of mind running our API backends. Basically, Render started where Heroku stopped. So you get many required features, to name a few:

* Infrastructure-as-service via a yaml file

* Auto-scale web services by CPU/RAM. In contrast to Heroku where it's made by P99/P95 latency. I can’t stress enough how better and correct is Render's auto-scale by CPU/RAM is. It's super fast and responsive, saves us big $$$ and quick to handle traffic spikes.

* env var groups so you would not repeat yourself defining the same envs multiple times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Render?

Some missing features in REST endpoint.

More regions support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Richard G.

Software engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/14/2022

"Powerfull and easy to use"

5/5

What do you like best about Render?

Probably the simplest PaaS on the market that I have tested.

I tested Virtuozzo, Heroku, AWS, ... but nothing satisfied me for a decent cost. Render ticks all the boxes.

The high availability, the security, the community and the low price convinced me to use it in production and I don't regret it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Render?

I have only been using it for a short time, but I haven't found any major flaws yet.

I miss for the moment a maintenance mode to disable my website with a custom page Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gabriel C.

Desenvolvedor full stack

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/12/2022

"Easy to deploy and free platform"

5/5

What do you like best about Render?

This platform is easily one of the best platforms I've ever used, the interface is really handy and the whole service is useful for getting you the best experience with deployments without having to have a DevOps course or a professional for that. One thing I have to say is that the documentation of the platform is very comprehensible and helpful. Can´t forget that unlike other platforms this platform doesn´t block you at anything asking for your credit card unless you have to pay for that. This platform is awesome for small or big projects, I'm enjoying it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Render?

I didn't have any problems with the platform yet, I think the prices are very accessible and didn´t have any problems that I needed to contact the support team or anything like that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Julian S.

Chief Technology Officer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/30/2022

"Incredible price effective heroku alternative"

5/5

What do you like best about Render?

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.

What do you dislike about Render?

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.

Verified User in Internet

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/27/2022

"Render is very easy to use, trustworthy and scalable."

4.5/5

What do you like best about Render?

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.

What do you dislike about Render?

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.

Nikitha S.

Cloud Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/21/2022

"Managing AWS ECR Actions, Events & Logs using Render CLI & provisioning Zero-Downtime Deployments"

4/5

What do you like best about Render?

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.

What do you dislike about Render?

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.

What problems is Render solving and how is that benefiting you?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Anass H.

Ecommerce Manager

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/1/2022

"VERY RISKY CLOUD"

0/5

What do you like best about Render?

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

What do you dislike about Render?

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.

Konstantinos T.

Independent Professional

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/2/2022

"Unclear charges."

0.5/5

What do you like best about Render?

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

What do you dislike about Render?

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.

Varshini S.

Database Engineer

Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/7/2022

"Managing Evict Policies, Read Replica Performance for our PostgreSQL & Redis Instances with Render"

4/5

What do you like best about Render?

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.

What do you dislike about Render?

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.

What problems is Render solving and how is that benefiting you?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Andrey B.

Engineering Director

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/22/2022

"Render review from Flaut.ru development team"

5/5

What do you like best about Render?

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.

What do you dislike about Render?

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