I'm transitioning to Render from heroku. The pricing scale matches my usage scale, yet it's just as easy to deploy. It's removed a lot of the devops that I don't like to deal with on setting up my own raw *nix box and makes deployment simple and easy!

Clustering I don't use clustering features at the moment but when i need to set up clustering of nodes and discoverability, render will enable that where Heroku would require that I use an external service like redis.

Restarts The restarts are annoying. I understand the reasoning, but I'd rather watch my service if its got a memory leak and work to fix it than to just assume that it has memory leaks and needs to restart.

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Easy to deploy
108
Auto scaling
80
Good free plan
64
Easy management
58
Scalability
36
Low cost
33
Comprehensive set of features
29
All services in one place
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Simple scaling
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Quick and reliable cloud servers
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Granular Billing
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Easy to develop and unit test
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Monitoring gives comprehensive set of key indicators
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Create APIs quickly with cloud endpoints
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Really easy to quickly bring up a full stack
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Mostly up
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Easy deployment
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Free for side projects
374
Huge time-saver
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Simple scaling
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Low devops skills required
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Easy setup
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Add-ons for almost everything
153
Beginner friendly
149
Better for startups
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Low learning curve
47
Postgres hosting
41
Easy to add collaborators
30
Faster development
24
Awesome documentation
19
Simple rollback
18
Focus on product, not deployment
15
Easy integration
15
Natural companion for rails development
11
Great customer support
7
GitHub integration
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No-ops
5
Painless & well documented
3
Just works
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Free
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PostgreSQL forking and following
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I love that they make it free to launch a side project
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Great UI
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MySQL extension

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Good free plan
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Open Source
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Easy setup
41
Nodejs support
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Well documented
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Custom domains
27
Mongodb support
26
Clean and simple architecture
24
PHP support
20
Customizable environments
10
Ability to run CRON jobs
8
Easier than Heroku for a WordPress blog
6
Good balance between Heroku and AWS for flexibility
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PostgreSQL support
6
Easy deployment
5
Autoscaling
4
Shell access to gears
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Free, Easy Setup, Lot of Gear or D.I.Y Gear
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Great Support
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Overly complicated and over engineered in majority of e
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Golang support
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Its free and offer custom domain usage
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because it is easy to manage
1
No credit card needed
1
Autoscaling at a good price point
1
Easy setup and great customer support
1
This is the only free one among the three as of today
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Meteor support
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Great free plan with excellent support

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Super expensive
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No usable MySQL option
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Not a whole lot of flexibility
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Storage
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Decisions are made for you, limiting your options
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License cost
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What is Google App Engine?

Google has a reputation for highly reliable, high performance infrastructure. With App Engine you can take advantage of the 10 years of knowledge Google has in running massively scalable, performance driven systems. App Engine applications are easy to build, easy to maintain, and easy to scale as your traffic and data storage needs grow.

What is Heroku?

Heroku is a cloud application platform – a new way of building and deploying web apps. Heroku lets app developers spend 100% of their time on their application code, not managing servers, deployment, ongoing operations, or scaling.

What is Red Hat OpenShift?

OpenShift is Red Hat's Cloud Computing Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering. OpenShift is an application platform in the cloud where application developers and teams can build, test, deploy, and run their applications.

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What are some alternatives to Google App Engine, Heroku, and Red Hat OpenShift?

Amazon Web Services

It provides on-demand cloud computing platforms to individuals, companies and governments. It offers reliable, scalable, and inexpensive cloud computing services.

DigitalOcean

We take the complexities out of cloud hosting by offering blazing fast, on-demand SSD cloud servers, straightforward pricing, a simple API, and an easy-to-use control panel.

AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda is a compute service that runs your code in response to events and automatically manages the underlying compute resources for you. You can use AWS Lambda to extend other AWS services with custom logic, or create your own back-end services that operate at AWS scale, performance, and security.

Kubernetes

Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the users declared intentions.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Once you upload your application, Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment details of capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling, and application health monitoring.

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