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Render raises $80M in Series C financing

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Re: Render raises $80M in Series C financing

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Post by stringtoint »

Sytten wrote: post #43
anurag wrote: post #18

(I'm Render's founder) What should we build next, HN?

Honestly as a long term customer please polish what you have. By that I mean: - Teams are still the only proper way to segment environments and access control. Yet you charge team member, I am still mad about that because even after 1+ year we need to use multiple teams. - Metrics are still locked to your platform, I want to use my telemetry provider because you guys dont have alerts, dashboard creation, etc. - Contr…

Agreeing with your points, especially regarding Cloudflare! For the record: we did pass ISO 27001 and we use Render.

Re: Render raises $80M in Series C financing

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Post by jboggan »

woodhull wrote: post #68
anurag wrote: post #18

(I'm Render's founder) What should we build next, HN?

We launched our company on Render. It was great for going from zero to one very quickly but we had many problems and ended up migrating to AWS as we scaled. * Poor visibility into detailed metrics, especially when problems happened in the render load balancer / routing mesh. We had a specific issue where a small number of requests were failing somewhere in render's infrastructure before reaching our application, and…

I'm currently building on Render and I concur with the third point. Render is great right now but I know I'm going to need a more sophisticated backend data environment and analytics workloads in the future.

Re: Render raises $80M in Series C financing

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Post by chachra »

anurag wrote: post #18

(I'm Render's founder) What should we build next, HN?

Scale to 0 services. Might mean less money for Render but would be awesome. Gets a lot of side projects hosted on fly because if it.

Partnership with Neon would be great too, I run 6 dbs there for $69 with auto scaling (and scales to 0 too if needed for non-prod envs). Render would be 3-4x that price for those many dbs.

Re: Render raises $80M in Series C financing

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Post by didgeoridoo »

RainyDayTmrw wrote: post #38
tyre wrote: post #8

I gotta say, reading this I have no idea what Render actually does or how it's different from AWS or Heroku. They say they've threaded the needle between the two to provide a new way of deploying infra, but what that is…who knows! Naturally a paragraph on AI. At some point companies lose the ability to say, "We are X. It used to be that Y, which had issues of A, B, C. Instead, X does Z, so $USERS can now D, E, F." Wh…

There's some anecdotal accounts that, through the mismanagement of its acquirer, Heroku is slowly dying after the acquisition. If Render so much as provides the Heroku experience at its peak, that would already be valuable, and many of us would already be happy. Of course, if Render directly says, "We're going to be like Heroku before it went off the rails," that's not compelling to media or investors. So, instead, t…

Heroku was acquired in 2011, so to be fair it did take Salesforce quite a long time to screw it up.

Re: Render raises $80M in Series C financing

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Post by anurag »

woodhull wrote: post #68
anurag wrote: post #18

(I'm Render's founder) What should we build next, HN?

We launched our company on Render. It was great for going from zero to one very quickly but we had many problems and ended up migrating to AWS as we scaled. * Poor visibility into detailed metrics, especially when problems happened in the render load balancer / routing mesh. We had a specific issue where a small number of requests were failing somewhere in render's infrastructure before reaching our application, and…

We launched HTTP request logs early in 2024, which would have made things easier to debug. Similarly, we're launching full OpenTelemetry exports in a few weeks.

Deep observability is critical for more complex environments, and things are improving dramatically on this front just as they have on Postgres.

We already support AWS PrivateLink! Reach out to support@render.com.

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Post by didgeoridoo »

RainyDayTmrw wrote: post #41
ignoramous wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> AWS is too low level for me We had good success with Lightsail; but then moved to Fly.io & the Cloudflare platform and spend ~zero time on sre & devops.

I'm curious what you use for a database on Fly.io. When I last looked into it, a proper managed database option was the last thing that they were missing from what I wanted.

Not first party, but they offer integrations with Neon, Supabase, PlanetScale, and Crunchy Bridge for managed pg.

Their “you’re on your own” option is really nice though for cheap, non-mission-critical stuff, and you can even scale the compute to zero during inactivity and just pay the attached volume costs.

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