[calyhre]

I moved a 1M monthly visitors project from Heroku to Render in December, and other than a few little hiccups, I have a better service (no hard-cap on memory for ex) for less than half the price.

I thought I was happy with Heroku until realizing the absurd cost and lack of evolution it grew to be. I've been there for almost a decade.

[aaronbrethorst]

I wasn't at quite this scale (yet) on Heroku, but I operate a service with quite a few moving parts, and I was deeply concerned about what an increase of scale would mean for my costs on Heroku. I moved to Render, kept my monthly opex essentially flat, and dramatically scaled up the available compute resources for my users just my biggest customer's needs really skyrocketed.

I'm glad I switched when I did, because I think I'd probably have a $600+/month bill from Heroku right now.

Edit, couple more thoughts about Render:

I've been using Render's managed Redis offering for the past few months in beta, and it's been rock-solid. I'm really happy with it.

Also, I am delighted that Render's two United States datacenters are in Oregon and Ohio. My understanding is that they spread their customers across GCP, Azure, and AWS, and I could not be happier to be out of Heroku with its exposure to the tire fire that is AWS us-east-1.

[D13Fd]

Yeah, Render is great. I’ve run a company blog on a Django/Wagtail setup there for almost 2 years now with very few hiccups.

I do sometimes worry that one day they’ll shut down and I’ll be stuck moving to a crappier service…

[anurag]

In case it helps, we announced $20M funding round in December: https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/22/render-secures-20m-series-...