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This is as good a time as any to ask about Render. I've been eyeing it recently and I'm thinking about launching my next project with it. Does anyone have any

by buf 4y ago

This is as good a time as any to ask about Render. I've been eyeing it recently and I'm thinking about launching my next project with it. Does anyone have any takeaways from using Render vs Heroku?

aaronbrethorst 4y ago
I’ve been using Render since January, after switching from Heroku for a project of mine with about 10,000 direct users at present. The project is a Rails app that imports hundreds of thousands of rows of data from XLSX files and spits out PDFs on demand from those imported spreadsheets. I was worried that Heroku would end up costing me a small fortune as demand scaled. Plus the platform seemed to have stagnated. I contemplated switching to AWS, but didn’t want to deal with the extra hassle of it. By chance, I saw someone mention Render on here, checked it out, and couldn’t be happier. It’s a bit harder to get up and running with Render than Heroku, but orders of magnitude easier than with AWS. And once you’re operational, it’s a cinch. And way, way, way cheaper.
- akpa1 4y ago
  Render is really not a very good name from a SEO point of view. Took me three or four searches to find it.
  - aaronbrethorst 4y ago
    Google: "render hosting"
leetrout 4y ago
Id also recommend a look at Porter.run
fourstar 4y ago
It’s alright but things are still flaky given they are smaller and newer. It hung on spinning up a postgres instance. Builds are slower as well.
- anurag 4y ago
  (Render founder) Were you trying the free tier? Builds are significantly faster on paid plans. I'd certainly appreciate more context: email in profile.
  - fourstar 4y ago
    Hi -- yes this is on the free plan for clarification of the original comment. Good to know. I was testing out the free plans until I upgraded. https://render.com/docs/build-limits https://render.com/docs/build-limits I don't see this mentioned anywhere. https://render.com/pricing https://render.com/pricing should maybe show a row/column on the build speed for the different tiers. Additionally, spinning up the postgres instance was on a paid tier. I contacted support but it self-resolved eventually after I blew away the instance and rebuilt. However, it was queued up for like 8+ hours on the first pass.
    - anurag 4y ago
      Thanks. We'll add info around free plan build speeds in the dashboard and docs.
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by buf 4y ago

This is as good a time as any to ask about Render. I've been eyeing it recently and I'm thinking about launching my next project with it. Does anyone have any takeaways from using Render vs Heroku?

aaronbrethorst 4y ago

I’ve been using Render since January, after switching from Heroku for a project of mine with about 10,000 direct users at present. The project is a Rails app that imports hundreds of thousands of rows of data from XLSX files and spits out PDFs on demand from those imported spreadsheets. I was worried that Heroku would end up costing me a small fortune as demand scaled. Plus the platform seemed to have stagnated. I contemplated switching to AWS, but didn’t want to deal with the extra hassle of it. By chance, I saw someone mention Render on here, checked it out, and couldn’t be happier. It’s a bit harder to get up and running with Render than Heroku, but orders of magnitude easier than with AWS. And once you’re operational, it’s a cinch. And way, way, way cheaper.

akpa1 4y ago
Render is really not a very good name from a SEO point of view. Took me three or four searches to find it.
- aaronbrethorst 4y ago
  Google: "render hosting"

leetrout 4y ago

Id also recommend a look at Porter.run

fourstar 4y ago

It’s alright but things are still flaky given they are smaller and newer. It hung on spinning up a postgres instance. Builds are slower as well.

anurag 4y ago
(Render founder) Were you trying the free tier? Builds are significantly faster on paid plans. I'd certainly appreciate more context: email in profile.
- fourstar 4y ago
  Hi -- yes this is on the free plan for clarification of the original comment. Good to know. I was testing out the free plans until I upgraded. https://render.com/docs/build-limits https://render.com/docs/build-limits I don't see this mentioned anywhere. https://render.com/pricing https://render.com/pricing should maybe show a row/column on the build speed for the different tiers. Additionally, spinning up the postgres instance was on a paid tier. I contacted support but it self-resolved eventually after I blew away the instance and rebuilt. However, it was queued up for like 8+ hours on the first pass.
  - anurag 4y ago
    Thanks. We'll add info around free plan build speeds in the dashboard and docs.

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