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by jmuguy 1051 days ago
The author never actually articulated what his beef was with Netlify. So yeah I think you're just as confused as the rest of us. Apparently Netlify was supposed to become Heroku, but Heroku is bad, but Render (which is... Heroku with a fresh coat of paint) isn't? I dunno.
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Render is (a cheaper) Heroku + Netlify ;)
Render seems to have autoscaling with a reasonable round-robin load balancer [1], whereas Heroku only has autoscaling in (expensive) Private Spaces [2] with a dumb load balancer [3].

[1] https://feedback.render.com/features/p/docs-on-how-renders-l... [2] https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/scaling#autoscaling [3] https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/http-routing#request-d...

And Render also handles distribution Elixir which is impossible on Heroku and a pain to roll yourself. Plus, they have free static/SPAs.