Render

““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.””

““It felt like something built by engineers who’d worked on internal DevOps platforms at big tech companies,””

““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.””

“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.”

“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.”

““ Render has given us the perfect blend of simplicity and control. It’s been a real no-brainer to switch from AWS. ””

““ We haven’t had any concerns with performance or uptime since we migrated over a year ago. ””

““It’s just easier for us to see what’s going on,””

““Now if we want to try something, we can have a new service up by the end of a conversation. ””

““ My favorite technology is technology that just works. Good defaults and good thinking — this is what matters most right now with AI. ””

““We’ve gone from having 3 or 4 issues every week to really not having to think about infrastructure at all.””

“"Normal request latency looked strong, and app performance improved in a lot of places," he noted. "The Render CLI experience was great."”

“"We were frustrated because we were having downtime with Railway every few days,” recalls Brandon Gell, COO of Every and leader of their product studio. “For our team, nothing is worse than being slowed down by our tools or infrastructure. We wanted to move all of our infrastructure quickly and decisively. We didn’t need a long evaluation because we knew that Kieran had been running Cora on Render for years without any issues."”

“"Normally, you choose something because it's exciting or cool, but in reality, you stick with infra because it's reliable. I had been telling the team for years, whenever there was an issue with Railway, 'Well, Render is still up.' Over the two years, I think I only ever had downtime once, for less than an hour, and it turned out that it was caused by Cloudflare, not Render."”

“"Render really does all of the things that I don't want to do," says Klaassen. “It handles the infra and the plumbing and lets me build whatever I want on top using my agents. Web services, workers, postgres—it all just works without being too opinionated. That's my style.””

““I built the first prototype of Cora in an afternoon and deployed it on Render,” Klaassen explains. “I had multiple other products with paying customers that had been running on Render for years without any problems. So, Render was my default.””

“If I could start again, though, I’d start with Render instead of GCP.”

“The biggest factor was that Render just worked.”

““It’s been refreshing. We're saving money, shipping faster, and actually enjoying the way we work.””

“"I don’t see any barriers to bringing people onto the team because Render makes things straightforward," Sterrett says. "Many more engineers could easily operate out of the same environment."”

“"Render is intuitive enough that no matter what level of infrastructure experience you have, you're able to operate. My team works out of Render every day. They're deploying, they're setting environment variables. Everyone can do it."”

““There are so many things that you need to configure in AWS just to get to a similar level of security to what Render provides by default. If you get them wrong or don’t maintain them, your security posture actually becomes worse.””