What is Render.com?

Introduction to Render.com

  1. What is Render.com?

    • Render is a cloud hosting provider that makes deploying and managing web applications, databases and other services simple and easy to get. It also helpful to those developers who don’t want to do the server infrastructure of their applications. It also support deployment from Github Repository and it is scalable. Render support multiple programming languages such as Python, Ruby on Rails, PHP and many more.
  2. Why Render.com is useful?

    • Render is useful because it offers a lot of services such as free TLS certificate, full stack deployment, global cdn, custom domains, DDoS protection and many more.

Features

  • Automatic Deploys: Render offers an automatic deploys using your git repositories in this feature the developer will feel the easiness to integrate their application and can update it instantly.

  • Managed Databases: Render supports PostgreSQL, Redis and Mysql because of this the developer can choose any database languages they want to use.

  • Scalability: Render can run multiple instances of a web services, private services, background worker or etc. meaning it can scale and because of this the application will not be interrupted even multiple user use it at once and also you can choose whether you like Manual Scaling or Auto Scaling.

  • SSL and Global CDN: Render managed the SSL certificates of your web application so that it will be encrypted and Render will handle the Global CDN so that the web application will be distributed around the world and reduce the latency of the app.

Render’s Competitors

  1. Heroku - Heroku is a cloud platform as a service supporting several programming languages. As one of the first cloud platforms, Heroku has been in development since June 2007, when it supported only the Ruby programming language, but now also supports Java, Node.js, Scala, Clojure, Python, PHP, and Go.

  2. AWS - Amazon Web Services, Inc. is a subsidiary of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments, on a metered, pay-as-you-go basis. Clients will often use this in combination with autoscaling.

  3. Netlify - Netlify is a remote-first cloud computing company that offers a development platform that includes build, deploy, and serverless backend services for web applications and dynamic websites.

  4. Digital Ocean - DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc. is an American multinational technology company and cloud service provider. The company is headquartered in New York City, New York, US, with 15 globally distributed data centers. DigitalOcean provides developers, startups, and SMBs with cloud infrastructure-as-a-service platforms.

  5. Vercel - Vercel Inc., formerly ZEIT, is an American cloud platform as a service company. The company maintains the Next.js web development framework. Vercel's architecture is built around composable architecture, and deployments are handled through Git repositories, the Vercel CLI, or the Vercel REST API.

Pricing

  1. Hobby - For hobbyists, students, and indie hackers. $0 USD

    per month

  2. Professional - For small teams and early-stage startups. $19 USD

    per user/month

  3. Organization - For larger teams with complex needs. $29 USD

    per user/month

  4. Enterprise - For ultimate power and customization. Custom pricing

Why Use Render

  1. Ease of Use : Render have an automatically deployment from your Git repositories meaning it easy to deploy with it and it is updated instantly

  2. Scalability : Render can be automatically scale based on the traffic meaning render can handle multiple traffics at the same time and be still responsive

  3. Cost Effective : As we can see in the pricing list Render is really cost effective to a small developer because it has a free tire you don’t need to spend a dime

  4. Flexible : Render is also flexible in terms of services for example changing a file in your web application you just need to update your git repositories and it will updated automatically and also you can change your database to any instance type you want anytime.

How to deploy a static site using Render.com

  • Step 1 : Login to your Render account

  • Step 2 : Go to Render Dashboard

  • Step 3 : Click New > Static Site

  • Step 4 : Connect your repo to your static site

  • Step 5 : Include which Git Branch will you use for your application

  • Step 6 : Click Static Site and Deploy

Documentation on how to deploy static sites in Render

https://docs.render.com/static-sites

Documentation for how Deploying works in Render

https://docs.render.com/deploys

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