Render VS Gigalixir

Render Reviews

1. Filip Stanev    

   Working at Saga.so | 12 months ago
   Best cloud solution out there

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

Gigalixir Reviews

Render mentions (415)

• Best Free Website Hosting Options for Developers

  Render.com — a pay-as-you-go cloud platform for deploying web applications of all kinds. - Source: dev.to / 7 days ago

• 11 Planetscale alternatives with free tiers

  Render is a cloud-based application hosting and database platform for building, deploying, and scaling applications with ease. It provides enterprise-grade data stores, automatic scaling, backups, and high availability, and it supports PostgreSQL databases. - Source: dev.to / 21 days ago

• Render Is Down

  Their status page says operational, but even their main website https://render.com is down. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• Let's build a screenshot API

  The main upside is cost-effectiveness, but managing VPS is still painful which can be solved with PaaS like Heroku, Render, or similar. - Source: dev.to / about 1 month ago

• How I Created an Online Multiplayer Game Using Colyseus

  I opted for utilizing the free service provided by render.com to host both the Node.js Server (Colyseus) and the Vue.js web application (frontend). - Source: dev.to / 7 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: about 2 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 / over 2 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 / over 2 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 / almost 3 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: about 3 years ago