Render Reviews

1. Filip Stanev

   · Working at Saga.so · about 3 years ago
   Best cloud solution out there

   We moved our services to Render and can't be happier!

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Render mentions (506)

• I generated 207 MCP tools from an OpenAPI spec. Generating them was the easy part.

  I wanted neither, so I built render-useful-mcp: an MCP server for Render where every API tool is generated from Render's own OpenAPI document. All 207 endpoints, no curation. - Source: dev.to / 12 days ago

• Seven Free Node.js Hosting Platforms Worth Trying in 2026

  Render offers a free web service tier for Node applications, with 512 MB of memory and 0.1 CPU, that spins down after 15 minutes of inactivity and cold-starts on the next request. Deploys are Git-driven, native runtimes handle most Node versions without a Dockerfile, one-click rollback works on all tiers, and preview environments are available with their own resource billing. - Source: dev.to / 27 days ago

• Best alternatives to Heroku in 2026

  Render is the closest structural match to Heroku on this list. It's built around web services, background workers, static sites, cron jobs, and managed Postgres and Redis, which maps almost one-to-one onto a Procfile plus Heroku add-ons. Buildpack-style auto-detection handles most language runtimes without a Dockerfile, and preview environments and one-click rollback exist out of the box. - Source: dev.to / 28 days ago

• Why Vercel is still my default for shipping frontend projects

  The other limitation is compute. Vercel Functions can handle APIs, server-rendered routes, streaming, and other request-driven tasks, and the current function limits are far more generous. But if your application requires a continuously running background process or custom Docker containers, Vercel isn't the right fit. There are platforms like Render or Northflank that are built for that kind of workload. Vercel... - Source: dev.to / 28 days ago

• How to Get Your First Tool Online

  A host: A host is really just a computer that stays powered on and connected to the internet with a public address of its own. When a visitor types in the app's address, their browser sends a request across the internet to that machine, the machine runs the code, and it sends the finished page back. A laptop was quietly doing both jobs during the build, the server and the only visitor allowed in; a host is that... - Source: dev.to / about 2 months ago

Gigalixir mentions (5)

• Hey where do I start from. I’d like to build a server that accepts only websocket connections. I heard elixir is good for this.

  For hosting you could check out https://gigalixir.com/, they have a free tier. Source: over 4 years ago

• Deploying an Elixir Release to Gigalixir

  I'll show you how to deploy a Phoenix 1.6 application, with Elixir 1.12 Release to https://gigalixir.com. - Source: dev.to / almost 5 years ago

• Preparing a Phoenix 1.6 app for deployment with Elixir Releases

  I'll show you how to deploy to Gigalixir in a future post. - Source: dev.to / almost 5 years ago

• Free for dev - list of software (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc.)

  Gigalixir.com - Gigalixir provide 1 free instance that never sleeps, and free-tier PostgreSQL database limited to 2 connections, 10, 000 rows and no backups, for Elixir/Phoenix apps. - Source: dev.to / about 5 years ago

• Best options for deploying your frontend and backend

  The second approach is to deploy your backend and frontend separately. For example, if I'm going with Phoenix then I could use Gigalixir (which also provides managed DBs). The Nuxt app can be deployed on a standard app platform (e.g. DigitalOcean again). This would require us to set up CORS, but it shouldn't be too difficult. Django can also be handled with the same app platform and here is a good article about... Source: over 5 years ago