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How ReadMe migrated from Heroku to Render with 90 seconds of downtime(render.com)
1 points by anurag 3y ago|0 comments
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by anurag 3y ago
Render supports loading your own Docker image now: https://docs.render.com/deploy-an-image
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by anurag 3y ago
(Render CEO) Cloudflare DDoS protection is built into Render, and we don't charge for bandwidth classified as DDoS.
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by anurag 3y ago
(Render CEO) Our free services are meant for personal hobby projects that don't need to stay up all the time; I'd love to see tests (and uptime monitoring) for the $7/mo server on Render. Happy to give you credits if it helps
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by anurag 3y ago
(Render founder) This is not a 'pricing surge'. Render changed its pricing in December 2022, and a few hundred users received a grace period of 14 months which ends at the end of February 2024.
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by anurag 3y ago
Containers are just one isolation layer of many we've built into our systems over the years. A topic for another post, and happy to chat if this is something you're working on.
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by anurag 3y ago
Network segmentation between projects/environments will land in the next year. Any chance you'd be up for a call so I understand the use case better? Email in profile.
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by anurag 3y ago
(Render CEO) The economics are working out well so far and will only improve with scale. Our customers don't want to (or can't) build out large devops or platform engineering teams which cost millions of dollars every year. From t
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Scaling Knative to 100K+ Webapps(render.com)
141 points by anurag 3y ago|31 comments
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How Render Scaled Knative to Support 100K+ Free Apps(render.com)
3 points by anurag 3y ago|0 comments
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by anurag 3y ago
Heard, loud and clear. Thanks for the support.
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by anurag 3y ago
Ouch. We'll investigate and prioritize a fix.
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by anurag 3y ago
This is unacceptable. You'd be well within your rights to ignore this request, but I'd appreciate an email with your details so we can fix the underlying problem.
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by anurag 3y ago
We've chosen to run on AWS/GCP for now so we can focus on building higher-level abstractions that help devs move faster, and we've always been very public about it.
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by anurag 3y ago
Yes. We will find/build a way for customers to verify their account in these cases before pausing compute.
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by anurag 3y ago
What did you find unstable exactly?
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by anurag 3y ago
We've resumed all services for OP. The tl;dr is this was a new account with no billing history and on track for a relatively high monthly spend. We attempted to authorize the card on file for the projected amount, and the authorization
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by anurag 3y ago
Really sorry about this. Can you email me (address in profile) so we can investigate?
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by anurag 3y ago
We take full responsibility for the infrastructure choices that led to this outage. As the peer comment said, it's helpful to overshare in these situations. We know developers don't actually care who's at fault and will move
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by anurag 3y ago
> maybe time to consider multiple CDN providers Yes. While Cloudflare is generally rock solid, we can't let this happen again.
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by anurag 3y ago
Send me an email (address in profile) if you'd like alpha access to this feature.
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by anurag 3y ago
--- edit --- Everything is back up. We're waiting for Cloudflare's RCA and will follow up with additional Render context right after. ------------ (Render CEO) While Cloudflare investigates the issue on their end, we're also
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by anurag 3y ago
> For example, Render supports Docker containers, but they are tied to a single region only. This is probably enough for hobby projects, but it's a show stopper for commercial deployments. The vast, vast majority of commercial deplo
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by anurag 3y ago
The doc you saw refers only to how secret files are treated at build time. At runtime, Render mounts your secret file at `/etc/secrets/FILENAME` in your container. Your application can then read it like any other file on the
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by anurag 3y ago
(Render CEO) Funny story. I first used Netlify in 2017 after being thwarted repeatedly by S3+Cloudfront deploy hacks. I loved the product so much I became a vocal advocate and eventually decided to build the same DX for the entire applicati
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Render PostgreSQL now supports Point-in-Time Recovery(render.com)
2 points by anurag 3y ago|0 comments
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by anurag 3y ago
Larger platforms have more underlying primitives platforms like Render can use (instances types, networking options, data storage options, regions, etc). A PaaS (depending on scope) can easily be the most complicated thing to build in the c
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by anurag 3y ago
A subtle distinction is that it's not Heroku treating users poorly — it's Salesforce, and it's not the same people who were at the company even just ~2 years ago. With Render, I'd rather show than tell. As an interesting
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by anurag 3y ago
Render's second engineer (who's still here and doing really well) had no prior professional experience in software and was entirely self-taught. I encourage you to apply!
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by anurag 3y ago
no magic sauce; the most helpful thing was just staying up despite the massive influx of users and getting even better at fighting platform abuse. This may be very specific to what we do as a cloud provider.

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