Render

“many folks will get started there instead of having to deal with giving a credit card”

“Fly, Render, and even Heroku still are all better choices then working with Railway I think”

“Somehow DNS cut over within 1 min(!) and live after about 30 minutes of work.”

“moved the app from Render to my own DC VPS for 10x+ cheaper and 1000x more bandwidth”

“Render does not allow you to spin up 1 instance of an app.”

“it did not allow me to spin up 1 instance of my web app”

“Fly and Render are what heroku would be if they didn't stop innovating.”

“Render has been excellent replacement, in my experience.”

“Static site on Render (no hosting fees)”

“Bandwidth limits on Pro are insanely low, and extra bandwidth is still insanely expensive.”

“Being forced to the Pro plan from our prior Organization plan is increasing our bill by 40%.”

“once the initial pain of setting up was complete, I found shared infra like logs/metrics somewhat useful”

“render has been a pleasure, just works, and auto deploys per branch also available”

“then there's going to be a 3 minute load time for a landing page to become visible”

“the problem is it is in free plan so it needs time to activate”

“The entire Sallyverse is deployed on Render, and we're thrilled to support such a fun, high-value tool.”

“Render drops to Docker for Java, Kotlin, .NET, and PHP.”

“Railway and Render work but still require you to write Dockerfiles and understand container configuration.”

“servers with tools that can create/modify cloud infrastructure (Render.com, Airtable, database connectors)”

“having a reliable stack like Render or Vercel is a game changer”

“Railway/Render can easily host Next.js applications”

“Render increased their prices (which for my team worked out at a doubling of costs) with a one month notice period”

“I've been using Render for close to 5 years, and it's excellent.”

“I find render.com basically as good as Heroku”

“render.com are both pretty good alternatives”

“I myself prefer render.com, for the simplicity and predictability of their billing, and their deployment model is so intuitive”

“the UI has essentially all the features of Fly or Render”

“Render is going to be quite expensive because of the cost of each seat”

“Render with their own CDN is quite good for frontend apps.”

“I've used Render as a good modern day alternative and have been pretty happy with it.”

“why split, you could use railway and render for both front end and back end”

“Render for front-end apps. That's my current go-to.”

“render feels like the most natural next step right now (similar mental model)”

“I moved to render years ago and have been very happy with the decision.”

“We're using Render for a year with no DB outages.”

“I've been using it for product launches/blogs and it's saved me hours.”

“PaaS platforms (Heroku, Render, Railway) can legitimately be operated by your average dev and not have to hire a dedicated person; those cost even more though.”

“seem to have figured out how to rent millions of dollars of computers and services out every month”

“They aren't perfect but believe they will at least respond.”

“For actual server paas that can run docker containers, render.com and fly.io are what heroku could have evolved to.”