[nickromano]

I migrated from Heroku to Render for a small Django project of mine: https://pinnacleclimb.com/

Some things I like about Render vs Heroku since switching:

  - Building the container from the Dockerfile in my repo seems to be a lot faster because it keeps all of the image layers cached.
  - I can control the external IPs that have access to my postgres database. I usually keep them all off and only let the webapp access it internally, and then whitelist an IP as needed.
  - Env groups are nice - if I want to start another service I can have it use all the same environment variables vs trying to keep them in sync myself.

A couple of years ago they had some multi-hour outages but things have been pretty stable since, a couple of the multi-minute outages were on me as I was upgrading the database or messing around with some configs. https://status.pinnacleclimb.com/

One thing I'd love in the future is some sort of postgres upgrade button. They handle minor version updates but to do a major version I need to put the app in maintenance mode, dump, restore, and swap to the new DB. It would be amazing if that could be automated with something like pglogical.