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Re: Render: a Zero DevOps Cloud Platform

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I'm guessing the appeal of such services is "hassle-free" deployment? Because I really don't get it.

My DigitalOcean instance is 2 GB RAM, 30 GB disk. With backups it costs $11.40/month. And yes, I'm free to run whatever on it, be it Postgres or Redis or...

To have an equivalent on Render would be 3-4 times more expensive?

Re: Render: a Zero DevOps Cloud Platform

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post #3

I'm guessing the appeal of such services is "hassle-free" deployment? Because I really don't get it. My DigitalOcean instance is 2 GB RAM, 30 GB disk. With backups it costs $11.40/month. And yes, I'm free to run whatever on it, be it Postgres or Redis or... To have an equivalent on Render would be 3-4 times more expensive?

This is basically hosted redis, it looks like. It's like any other hosted db. It means they take care of monitoring, backups, configuration, fixing stuff that goes wrong, etc. RDS is the same idea and people spend a fortune on it.

Re: Render: a Zero DevOps Cloud Platform

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post #3

I'm guessing the appeal of such services is "hassle-free" deployment? Because I really don't get it. My DigitalOcean instance is 2 GB RAM, 30 GB disk. With backups it costs $11.40/month. And yes, I'm free to run whatever on it, be it Postgres or Redis or... To have an equivalent on Render would be 3-4 times more expensive?

With Platform as a Service (PaaS) you are paying a premium for isolating the problem to an individual component which is down. You can either spend a few hours going through the logs or have PaaS vendor let you know that problem is not at their end so that you can spend time isolating the issue.

Re: Render: a Zero DevOps Cloud Platform

#9
The pricing absolutely blows Heroku away here across the spectrum…

Heroku: $15/mo = 50Mb memory + 40 connections

Render: $10/mo = 250Mb memory + 500 connections

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Heroku $750/mo = 7Gb memory + 10k connections

Render $250/mo = 10Gb memory + 10k connections

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