Render, the easiest cloud for developers and startups to
host any application or website, today announced three major additions to
its platform - Disks, Infrastructure as Code in the form of render.yaml and Deploy
To Render button - onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF's Startup Battlefield.
Startup Battlefield showcases the most promising early-stage and fundamentally
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When it comes to hosting applications in the cloud, developers and startups
have traditionally had to pick between large cloud infrastructure providers
like AWS which are prohibitively complex and difficult to use or
inflexible Platform-as-a-Service solutions like Heroku which are expensive and
hard to scale. Render offers an innovative alternative that customers
love.
Render gives developers and startups the best of both worlds: instant setup and
incredible ease of use, coupled with the power and flexibility previously
afforded only by large cloud providers. It has done this by creating an
intuitive hosting platform that requires zero knowledge of servers and
infrastructure and combining it with powerful containerization technology
which enables customization, cost reduction and reliability at scale.
Since formally launching in April 2019, Render's cloud platform has grown 50%
month-over-month and is now serving more than 100 million requests every
week. Customers include 99designs, Gatsby and Indie Hackers by Stripe.
"We've been both humbled and energized by the amazing response to our launch
from developers and teams all over the globe. As always, we're
relentlessly focused on making hosting on Render even easier and more
powerful, for everything from hobby projects to the most demanding applications
on the planet," said Anurag Goel, founder and CEO of Render.
Render's new features let users run the most complex and demanding applications
without managing servers:
- Disks: Render is the first
and only Platform-as-a-Service to offer developers instant access to expandable
SSD storage for any application. Render disks are backed up automatically
and can be restored with a click of a button. This allows Render users to
easily run a variety of stateful workloads, from Elasticsearch and Kafka
to Wordpress and MySQL.
- Infrastructure as Code in
the form of render.yaml: Render users can now define all their Render services
in a single simple YAML file and manage all their infrastructure with
code. This makes it possible for them to track changes to their infrastructure
in version control as Render automatically synchronizes these changes to
their cloud services.
- Deploy to Render: Users can
add the new Deploy To Render button to any GitHub or GitLab repository
containing a render.yaml file to enable single click deploys of their
applications. This is incredibly helpful for open source projects like Ghost,
Mattermost and Matomo Analytics which have multiple
component microservices that can take hours, and sometimes days, to get up
and running on other cloud providers.
In addition to all the new features, Render has released the
following features and enhancements since launching in April:
- Zero downtime horizontal
scaling with automatic load balancing.
- Zero downtime vertical
scaling.
- Built-in memory and CPU
metrics for every server.
- Automatically pull request
previews so users can test their code on a live server before merging it into
production.
- Support for popular new
languages like Rust, Go and Elixir.
Just last month, Render announced early access of Render
Addons that give developers immediate, pre-integrated access to a variety of
world-class third-party cloud services they can use to build great
applications. Render Addons are the first production deployment of Manifold's
Marketplace-as-a Service offering.