Tag: Render

Autoscaling and Read Replicas Empower Developers to Build Applications That Are More Resilient and Responsive to Heavy Workloads and Traffic Spikes.

San Francisco, CA, June 17, 2021 — Render, the Zero DevOps Cloud, today announced the general availability of autoscaling, the #1 requested feature from customers. Autoscaling offers the ability to automatically scale applications in response to varying workload levels and traffic so that customers can increase their services’ reliability and uptime and improve the overall end user experience while keeping costs in check.

Today Render also announced the general availability of read replicas which allow customers with heavy database or analytics usage to offload processing to a fully-managed real-time replica of their primary database, keeping their primary database responsive at all times.

Render founder and CEO Anurag Goel said: “Developers have now created hundreds of thousands of services on Render, more than doubling in the last 6 months. The rapid adoption of our platform continues to inspire us to bring state-of-the-art features to our customers without any additional engineering investment on their part. Ultimately, features like autoscaling and read replicas help developers improve application reliability, control cloud costs and increase shipping velocity, delivering significantly better products to their users.”

Render offers an innovative public cloud alternative that developers love; it gives them 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 does this by offering 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.

Autoscaling
Autoscaling can be used for any web service, private service or task processor running on the platform and features a built-in, convenient dashboard to configure and view autoscaling events and workload performance. Render is the first platform-as-a-service to offer native autoscaling based on CPU and memory usage. Unlike platforms that restrict autoscaling to expensive enterprise plans, autoscaling is available to all Render customers at no cost; Render only charges for actual compute usage, prorated by the second.

Marc Köhlbrugge, founder of BetaList and Startup Jobs, said: “Autoscaling on Render is so much better than anything I’ve used before; we moved multiple services to Render from Heroku where autoscaling is only available on more expensive plans, and relies on application response times. This can often make things worse when the performance bottleneck is outside the application, for instance in the database. Render looks at real time CPU and memory consumption for my services so I’m able to use it for background workers in addition to web apps and keep costs in check across all my services.”

Autoscaling on Render is based on precise real-time compute and memory usage instead of metrics like application response times which are often inaccurate approximations of actual resource consumption. This doesn’t just make Render autoscaling significantly more responsive and effective; it also enables use cases unsupported by other Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) providers. These include autoscaling for applications with a wide variance in response times, or for applications that don’t serve HTTP traffic but still need to scale based on load, like asynchronous queue processing tasks.

Read Replicas
Read replicas for PostgreSQL offer enhanced performance and resilience to customers using Render’s fully managed PostgreSQL databases. With read replicas, users can create a read-only copy of their production database with the click of a button, and Render automatically keeps the copy in sync with the primary database at all times. Customers can use read replicas to perform business critical functions such as data analysis, reporting, migrations, and upgrades seamlessly and without impacting the performance or availability of their production database.

About Render
Render offers the easiest cloud to host any application or website. The company’s goal is to completely free up developers and startups from managing cloud infrastructure by building a cloud that offers the best developer experience coupled with incredible flexibility and power. This will ultimately improve all software and enable entirely new kinds of applications. Render is backed by General Catalyst and the South Park Commons Fund and based in San Francisco. For more information, go to https://render.com or follow @render.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 30, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Render, the Zero DevOps Cloud, today announced that more than 100,000 services have been created on its cloud. These services range from static sites and APIs to cron jobs and managed PostgreSQL instances. More than half of these services were created just in the second half of 2020, underscoring Render’s rapidly increasing popularity with developers and businesses of all sizes.

Render launched in 2019 and has seen record month-over-month adoption since it launched, quickly becoming one of the fastest growing public clouds. In 2019, Render competed against thousands of startups at TechCrunch Disrupt SF’s Startup Battlefield and won for being the most promising early-stage and fundamentally disruptive startup. In April this year, it surpassed one billion HTTP requests served monthly.

Anurag Goel, founder and CEO of Render, said: “Cloud computing in 2020 is still harder than it should be, and this milestone underscores our focus on making the cloud considerably more accessible for developers around the globe. As our customer base continues to grow, we remain excited about making Render even more powerful and versatile with a long list of features and improvements planned for the coming months.”

Render offers an innovative public cloud alternative that developers love; it gives them 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 does this by offering 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.

Render is trusted by tens of thousands of developers and teams from fast-growing tech startups like Cypress.io to popular consumer startups like Bloomscape to established companies like 99designs.

About Render
Render offers the easiest cloud to host any application or website. The company’s goal is to completely free up developers and startups from managing cloud infrastructure by building a cloud that offers the best developer experience coupled with incredible flexibility and power. This will ultimately improve all software and enable entirely new kinds of applications. Render is backed by General Catalyst and the South Park Commons Fund and based in San Francisco. For more information, go to https://render.com or follow @getrender.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 13, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Render, the easiest cloud provider for developers and startups, today announced that it served more than one billion HTTP requests in April which is more than two times the number of requests in March. Today Render also announced that it has launched early access to its first hosting region in Europe, delivering on the number one request from users.

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 launched in April 2019 with an innovative alternative that developers and startups love. Render gives them 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.

Render went on to compete against thousands of startups and won TechCrunch Disrupt SF’s Startup Battlefield for being the most promising early-stage and fundamentally disruptive startup.

Today Render has thousands of customers that include startups like Gatsby to larger organizations like Stripe.

“Render is a fantastic product! We moved from another cloud provider because we wanted easier deployments, managed databases and an intuitive interface. Setup took minutes, thanks to simple and clear documentation, and their customer service is unparalleled. Render removes a lot of complexity around managing a backend so we can focus our time on building features. Highly recommended!” said Amos Elliston, who is currently building Placement, an online talent management platform shared, after serving as CTO of Flexport.

Render even hosted a major presidential campaign. Shreyes Seshasai, technical lead for the Pete Buttigieg presidential campaign, said: “We moved to Render from a major cloud provider because it was the best solution that could help our small team of four software engineers meet the massive scaling and flexibility needs of the campaign. We were able to deploy over 20 services on Render with their incredible platform and support, including our main website which reached tens of millions of Americans.”

Render’s first hosting region in Europe, which is in Frankfurt, Germany, reduces network latency for all Render customers with a Europe-based audience by as much as 70 percent. It also satisfies EU General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), making Render available for the first time to customers subject to GDPR.

Ferruccio Balestreri at Al.ta Cucina, the largest online recipe sharing community in Italy, said: “Leveraging Render’s EU hosting region will make Al.ta Cucina’s site even faster, providing a better user experience for the nearly one million visitors we serve every month. We’ll be able to reduce our hosting costs by as much as 30 percent and redirect internal resources currently spent managing GDPR-related processes. Render gives our team a big leg up towards achieving our business goals.”

Anurag Goel, Render’s founder and CEO said: “Render usage and revenue continue to increase faster than we’d ever imagined, and we’ve doubled our team to build on this momentum and support our users. Users trust us with their most critical workloads, especially as many more companies move to the cloud and to Render given the macro environment. As we expand Render to Europe and even more locations in the future, we maintain our relentless focus on UX, on meeting our customer needs and on keeping the cloud accessible and scalable for everyone.

Steve Herrod, Managing Director at General Catalyst who invested in Render and the former CTO of VMware, said: “Render is doing an amazing job of capturing developers’ hearts and minds, and our astronomical growth reflects that. The next few months will surely be even more impressive as Render’s world-class team expands the product and more businesses of all sizes adopt the platform.”

About Render
Render offers the easiest cloud to host any application or website. The company’s goal is to completely free up developers and startups from managing cloud infrastructure by building a cloud that offers the best developer experience coupled with incredible flexibility and power. This will ultimately improve all software and enable entirely new kinds of applications. Render is backed by General Catalyst and the South Park Commons Fund and based in San Francisco. For more information, go to https://render.com or follow @getrender.