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Does anyone on HN have first person experience with Render? Their offering certainly looks great on paper. I'd specifically be interested in your experience wit

Does anyone on HN have first person experience with Render? Their offering certainly looks great on paper. I'd specifically be interested in your experience with regards to: - Stability / Uptime - How well the management UI / API / tools work - Any services you found you needed but aren't yet offered - Compliance with data protection regulations

devmunchies 5y ago
I just listened to an the Syntax podcast where it’s a pain to setup cloudflare for Render
- kjksf 5y ago
  I have ~10 websites / web apps with Render + Cloudflare and setting up cloudflare proxying for render is super easy. You can even proxy * domains (i.e. requests for *.foo.com going to a single render server / ip address).
- anurag 5y ago
  Mind pointing me to the podcast? Cloudflare is quite easy to set up in front of Render now.
  - slig 5y ago
    Hi, is it possible to proxy, for instance, /media/ from example.com/media/ to a S3 bucket? I run a setup using `nginx-ingress-controller` and it's possible to use it as reverse proxy to an external http server and I'm wondering if Render supports it as well. Thanks!
    - anurag 5y ago
      It should be for most setups. https://render.com/docs/redirects-rewrites https://render.com/docs/redirects-rewrites has details.
      - slig 5y ago
        It looks like it does a 301 redirects or internal rewrites, not reverse proxy. But thanks, I'm going to sign up and test!
  - devmunchies 5y ago
    https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/syntax-tasty-web-development-treats/id1253186678?i=1000554705862 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/syntax-tasty-web-devel...
fillskills 5y ago
Been using it for a marketplace for 1+ years. No hiccups, very easy to understand and set up, not expensive.
lazypenguin 5y ago
Yes I deployed a django application to render w/ a couple of additional services: database, 2x background workers and redis. Overall the experience was positive but I feel that it tries too hard to have a "simple" UX which ended up annoying me in the end. I would use it again but I didn't "love" it. I have a feeling it will be pretty good long term. Here are some annoyances I had: - Environment previews don't always work, hard to easily switch between services running in environment previews - Slow deploys because it rebuilds the docker image every time, no way to connect it to a registry - Documentation is shallow, especially when things get technical or complex related to their "blueprints" - Ran into a bug with their environment groups - They proxy through cloudflare and had some intermittent issues - Zero downtime deploy wasn't actually zero downtime
- anurag 5y ago
  This is valid and helpful feedback; it also validates our priorities because we have ongoing projects to address each of these points.
herunan 5y ago
Used it plenty. Easy, cheap, and stable. Good support. Opted to self-host when I heard they use GCP. No regrets when using Passenger.
fancyremarker 5y ago
Aptible founder here. Since you mentioned compliance: Aptible is a PaaS focused on enabling cloud deployments that meet rigorous security and compliance benchmarks (HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, etc.) We're not directly competitive with Render but our solution is similar — we support turnkey app deployment, PostgreSQL, Redis and other OSS databases. Our focus is on the problem of simplifying compliance in the cloud. We're also building a self-hosted SaaS version of our product for companies who want the benefits of PaaS but direct access to their AWS/GCP/Azure infrastructure as well.

devmunchies 5y ago

I just listened to an the Syntax podcast where it’s a pain to setup cloudflare for Render

kjksf 5y ago
I have ~10 websites / web apps with Render + Cloudflare and setting up cloudflare proxying for render is super easy. You can even proxy * domains (i.e. requests for *.foo.com going to a single render server / ip address).
anurag 5y ago
Mind pointing me to the podcast? Cloudflare is quite easy to set up in front of Render now.
- slig 5y ago
  Hi, is it possible to proxy, for instance, /media/ from example.com/media/ to a S3 bucket? I run a setup using `nginx-ingress-controller` and it's possible to use it as reverse proxy to an external http server and I'm wondering if Render supports it as well. Thanks!
  - anurag 5y ago
    It should be for most setups. https://render.com/docs/redirects-rewrites https://render.com/docs/redirects-rewrites has details.
    - slig 5y ago
      It looks like it does a 301 redirects or internal rewrites, not reverse proxy. But thanks, I'm going to sign up and test!
- devmunchies 5y ago
  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/syntax-tasty-web-development-treats/id1253186678?i=1000554705862 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/syntax-tasty-web-devel...

fillskills 5y ago

Been using it for a marketplace for 1+ years. No hiccups, very easy to understand and set up, not expensive.

lazypenguin 5y ago

Yes I deployed a django application to render w/ a couple of additional services: database, 2x background workers and redis. Overall the experience was positive but I feel that it tries too hard to have a "simple" UX which ended up annoying me in the end. I would use it again but I didn't "love" it. I have a feeling it will be pretty good long term. Here are some annoyances I had: - Environment previews don't always work, hard to easily switch between services running in environment previews - Slow deploys because it rebuilds the docker image every time, no way to connect it to a registry - Documentation is shallow, especially when things get technical or complex related to their "blueprints" - Ran into a bug with their environment groups - They proxy through cloudflare and had some intermittent issues - Zero downtime deploy wasn't actually zero downtime

anurag 5y ago
This is valid and helpful feedback; it also validates our priorities because we have ongoing projects to address each of these points.

herunan 5y ago

Used it plenty. Easy, cheap, and stable. Good support. Opted to self-host when I heard they use GCP. No regrets when using Passenger.

fancyremarker 5y ago

Aptible founder here. Since you mentioned compliance: Aptible is a PaaS focused on enabling cloud deployments that meet rigorous security and compliance benchmarks (HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, etc.) We're not directly competitive with Render but our solution is similar — we support turnkey app deployment, PostgreSQL, Redis and other OSS databases. Our focus is on the problem of simplifying compliance in the cloud. We're also building a self-hosted SaaS version of our product for companies who want the benefits of PaaS but direct access to their AWS/GCP/Azure infrastructure as well.