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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 thrwaway223 »

alexeldeib wrote: post #69
RainyDayTmrw wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Supabase would be a good pick. Vercel and Cloudflare both do SQL DBs now too, curious how they are. Neon seemed interesting, haven’t heard much about them in a while. None of those integrated of course, but easier than going big cloud or self hosted

Vercel SQL DB is just a thin wrapper (with added cost) on Neon

Re: Render raises $80M in Series C financing

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Post by leerob »

thrwaway223 wrote: post #91
alexeldeib wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Supabase would be a good pick. Vercel and Cloudflare both do SQL DBs now too, curious how they are. Neon seemed interesting, haven’t heard much about them in a while. None of those integrated of course, but easier than going big cloud or self hosted

Vercel SQL DB is just a thin wrapper (with added cost) on Neon

(I work at Vercel) We got rid of this and made it the same price as using Neon directly. We also added a bunch more database options (e.g. Supabase) https://vercel.com/marketplace

Re: Render raises $80M in Series C financing

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Post by steve_adams_86 »

anurag wrote: post #40
verdverm wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It also means that when an application reaches a certain maturity or complexity, they have to leave platforms like Render to clouds where they can do the things they need to operate with efficiency. There is a tradeoff point. Platforms like Render are small team efficient, clouds are organization efficient

This is the narrative we disagree with most people on and are focused on disproving: multiple unicorns have started and stayed on Render, and our platform continues to add capabilities as their needs become more complex.

Which unicorns?

Re: Render raises $80M in Series C financing

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Post by czhu12 »

I’ve been trying to build an open source clone of render for the past year, that is portable across basically all cloud providers that offer managed kubernetes, (which is basically everyone)

Render is an improvement on pricing from Heroku but is still massively more expensive than raw VPS instances such as the ones you can buy on digital ocean, and it’s much less flexible.

https://canine.sh

Re: Render raises $80M in Series C financing

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Post by theonething »

bambax wrote: post #44
anurag wrote: post #18

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

You could start by explaining what you do. I still have no idea (better Heroku?) and judging by the comments here I'm not alone...

They're a PaaS provider. Why the hell is that so hard to understand?

Re: Render raises $80M in Series C financing

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Post by felipeccastro »

theodoretliu wrote: post #72
anurag wrote: post #18

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

Was loving the ease of deployment on render but had to move off for lack of BAA and HIPAA compliance. Any timeline for support?

Our team considered Render but dropped for the same reason. We’re looking into Aptible right now, not as well known but seems focused on HIPAA compliance.

Re: Render raises $80M in Series C financing

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Post by catlover76 »

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…

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Re: Render raises $80M in Series C financing

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Post by dprotaso »

anurag wrote: post #9
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…

Hello fellow Xtripe! This blog post wasn't meant to focus on differentiation, but you might find this useful: https://render.com/docs/render-vs-heroku-comparison

Is Render still using Knative?

https://render.com/blog/knative ?

Re: Render raises $80M in Series C financing

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Post by anurag »

dprotaso wrote: post #99
anurag wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hello fellow Xtripe! This blog post wasn't meant to focus on differentiation, but you might find this useful: https://render.com/docs/render-vs-heroku-comparison

Is Render still using Knative? https://render.com/blog/knative ?

Not any more. We replaced it with our own code that did exactly what we needed it to do.
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