elb,ec2,s3 is still my favorite
Render raises $80M in Series C financing
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Re: Render raises $80M in Series C financing
#12Is this a better heroku? My experience is that anything outside of the standard process for deploying apps is actively frowned upon by everyone except startups that need to move extremely quickly to create PoCs. So unless this platform is much much cheaper than the public clouds it seems like a limited market.
Yes, and I say this as someone who used Heroku for over a decade and recently switched to Render.
The Heroku platform has recently gone downhill. There’s a ton of downtime, minimal improvements, no communication via their status page, and incredibly bad support. They once shut off GitHub deploys for months with no explanation, because of a security incident they seemingly couldn’t fix… we had no way to deploy!
Heroku was amazing, but it’s dying rapidly. Render isn’t a huge departure from Heroku, but it’s solid and the team is very responsive.
Re: Render raises $80M in Series C financing
#13Is this a better heroku? My experience is that anything outside of the standard process for deploying apps is actively frowned upon by everyone except startups that need to move extremely quickly to create PoCs. So unless this platform is much much cheaper than the public clouds it seems like a limited market.
Yes, and I say this as someone who used Heroku for over a decade and recently switched to Render. The Heroku platform has recently gone downhill. There’s a ton of downtime, minimal improvements, no communication via their status page, and incredibly bad support. They once shut off GitHub deploys for months with no explanation, because of a security incident they seemingly couldn’t fix… we had no way to deploy! Heroku…
If this tells you anything, the CEO of Heroku (who was ex AWS), just left for Nvidia. I asked him directly before he left if he was interested in GPU compute and his only answer was basically... "only what it is available on AWS"... which is where all their stuff is hosted now.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/14/heroku-ceo-bob-wise-depart...
Re: Render raises $80M in Series C financing
#14I’ve been pretty vocal about using http://kamal-deploy.org/ more and more, and Render less.
Kamal really is fantastic, PaaS niceties w/o the PaaS tax.
Re: Render raises $80M in Series C financing
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, and I say this as someone who used Heroku for over a decade and recently switched to Render. The Heroku platform has recently gone downhill. There’s a ton of downtime, minimal improvements, no communication via their status page, and incredibly bad support. They once shut off GitHub deploys for months with no explanation, because of a security incident they seemingly couldn’t fix… we had no way to deploy! Heroku…
If this tells you anything, the CEO of Heroku (who was ex AWS), just left for Nvidia. I asked him directly before he left if he was interested in GPU compute and his only answer was basically... "only what it is available on AWS"... which is where all their stuff is hosted now. https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/14/heroku-ceo-bob-wise-depart...
Oh thank god. I had the displeasure of meeting with him once, and it was so bad that when we hung up I had our team to start planning a migration off of Heroku.
The crux of the issue was that he told me that he philosophically didn’t believe Heroku should put up status notifications about downtime or performance issues until AFTER they fully understood the problem and had a fix. (My theory was actually that no engineers worked there and they didn’t have on-call rotation anymore)
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Re: Render raises $80M in Series C financing
#17I run all of LegendKeeper's infrastructure on Render, save for a few serverless functions. It's been convenient; I rarely think about infra at all anymore.
Re: Render raises $80M in Series C financing
#18(I'm Render's founder) What should we build next, HN?
Re: Render raises $80M in Series C financing
#19Google will buy them to reduce chance of legitimate competition probably…
What customer base will Render bring to them ? Google directly competes with AWS and Azure and it need the big enterprise customers if any .
Also all those services basically just sit back and wait till a company gets big enough to have in-house SevOps/SRE/whatever and the inevitable cost optimising migration gets demanded.
Re: Render raises $80M in Series C financing
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
If this tells you anything, the CEO of Heroku (who was ex AWS), just left for Nvidia. I asked him directly before he left if he was interested in GPU compute and his only answer was basically... "only what it is available on AWS"... which is where all their stuff is hosted now. https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/14/heroku-ceo-bob-wise-depart...
Oh thank god. I had the displeasure of meeting with him once, and it was so bad that when we hung up I had our team to start planning a migration off of Heroku. The crux of the issue was that he told me that he philosophically didn’t believe Heroku should put up status notifications about downtime or performance issues until AFTER they fully understood the problem and had a fix. (My theory was actually that no engine…
Wow, only one open job req and I can't figure out who is going to replace Bob. Seems like the platform is dead.