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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I didn't find support for FastAPI, raised it to them and they were very fast in implementing it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Infrastructure as code, lets me duplicate hosting for multiple projects

- Cheap - Much cheaper than Heroku

- Databases - Everything is all in one places Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Only a few regions so far, but easy to fix! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Excellent IaC support out of the box. It makes configuring monorepo's super. I launched a docker and static site stack in half an hour. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

IaC previews with multiple web stacks become paid plan by default. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have yet not found any downside about the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I'm looking forward to more regions (e.g. London/UK) and cross-region availability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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.

It took me all of 20 minutes from setting up my Render account to launching my Django app that I already had in Github. I am also impressed by the great features that Render include building pull requests, logging, metrics, and other services like managed databases, static sites, and cron jobs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Render doesn't have a permanent free tier for managed services like Heroku, but their free trial does not require you to give them payment information which is an excellent policy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.