Render

“The first is Render, quite honestly. Here are just a few bright spots:”

“Together, Render and Rails help us stay focused on solving core problems for our users.”

“When HIPAA compliance became a priority for us, we didn’t have to shift focus away from Product. Render handled the security building blocks like private networking, data encryption, and audit controls so our engineers could keep moving fast without taking on compliance overhead.”

““ A lot of our customers are founders or small AI teams. They just want to deploy a working demo fast and seeing ours on the homepage helps them get there without any setup. Inbound volume skyrocketed after releasing our new homepage demo with the Arcana model voices and Render on the backend. ””

““I love complaining about platforms. And I have nothing to complain about with Render. That’s rare.””

““And the best part is—I don’t even think about it. It just works.””

““It was like having a whole DevOps team in my back pocket,””

““Render gave us the flexibility of rolling our own infra, without the headaches of actually doing it,””

““It’s clear Render was designed to scale. It supports the basics well, and the advanced use cases are there when we need them,””

““Everybody I show Render to gets it right away. There’s no training required, and I don’t have to worry they’re going to mess it up—it’s all very clear,””

““Other platforms catering to startups don’t always get this right. If you don’t start with the right hierarchy—projects, services, environments—you end up creating multiple accounts just to keep things separate. Render’s structure makes it easy to grow.””

““Render saved us at least three weeks of DevOps work. More importantly, it made the project possible in the first place. If I had to build all this on EC2, I probably would’ve told the team: I’m not doing this.””

“Migrating our databases to Render worked so well, it was like magic.”

“Security was our top concern. On Render, it’s easy to set up infrastructure securely.”

“Finally, this isn’t a feature, but I wanted to call it out: Render is a ReadMe customer, and it was nice to work with a company we already had a relationship with. We trusted that Render was invested in us.”

“Render seemed to be enterprise-ready and to have the most mature feature set, plus SOC 2 certification. Render also seemed to be moving quickly and adding new capabilities in a way that Heroku hadn’t been for years.”

“A Render service looks a lot like a Heroku service in that we can spin it up easily and give it a custom domain if we want, or change the scaling settings. We can easily scale up our main monolith web application to the 20 to 40 instances we run. Otherwise, we’re mostly just writing our web app (in our case, it’s a Node.js app). Yes, things can still go wrong, but there are fewer knobs to turn, and fewer things you’re expected to be aware of.”

““setting up analytics was really easy, like integrating with Datadog or PostHog, because Render has these one-click deploy resources. We really like the list of products available as quick installs that have been curated by the Render team.””

““We’re very happy that we chose Render and Redwood because they take away a lot of friction and burden from us so we can focus.”

““ If Render continues to build the things that we need, then I don't see why we would go elsewhere. It's evolving. We're evolving, and we may evolve at the same time. ””

““ We tried to quickly evaluate Render, and it was a really, really quick decision to see the value that Render provided. So we built on it, and we've stayed on Render since. ””

“I remember I was able to deploy everything on Render without spending time reading the docs! The UI made it easy to use.”

““The migration itself was unremarkable, in the best sense,” according to Herrera. “We could migrate most applications within a week.””

““We’re also on track to save 35 to 40% on compute vs AWS because autoscaling is so straightforward,” notes Herrera.”

““The platform is intuitive enough that the team rarely needs to ask for help at all.””