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Render [1] was started just because Heroku stopped innovating.

I was looking at render as an alternative to heroku the other day and I think that the only thing that made me think that I would definitely stick with heroku for now was the point-in-time restores for heroku postgres, which render seems to lack at present.

A point-in-time restore really saved me once (allowed recovery of important data after an accidental delete), but I am interested to know if other think I am over-blowing their significance in a production system? Are there other strategies which make PIT backups less important?

(Render founder) PITR is critical, and it's up there on our 2021 TODOs along with HA Postgres.

I've been thinking about switching to Render recently, but there's one feature blocking me: the ability to deploy an existing docker image from a private registry [1]. As far as I can tell, you have to connect a repo to deploy a Render service.. and monorepos are not fully supported yet either.

Is your 2021 roadmap public, or is Canny your official roadmap? Really interested to see what's coming soon :)

[1]: https://feedback.render.com/features/p/deploy-docker-images-...

Btw, I've been working at Canny for the past year and was pleasantly surprised to see your feedback site!

I recently noticed that DigitalOcean App Platform allows you to pull an image from a private DO registry. I haven’t had a chance to try it yet but I’m excited to see if it might allow me to delete some CI/CD infrastructure glue code.

Last time I tried Render I couldn’t find a way of easily deploying an existing image.

Yeah, DigitalOcean's App Platform recently added support for custom images this year [1] (I was also waiting for that). I'm currently running a $5 droplet for my service [2] powered by docker-compose, but really looking forward to deleting some bash scripts and going all in on Render or Fly.io :)

[1]: https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/introducing-bring-your-own...

[2]: https://puzzlepanda.com

feedback.render.com is as close to a public roadmap as we'll get. Big fan of Canny: it plays a big role in our product prioritization.

Private registries likely in 2021; we're actively hiring! https://render.com/jobs

Thanks for the response! Great to know it's on the way

I'm also impressed by render and am planning to use it fo my next side project. I use elixir heavily and render actually supports having teh nodes be connected to form a mesh.

Neither dokku, heroku or any other PAAS that I know if supports this and its really important for some of the more interesting features the beam offers such as pupsub without having to use redis. In my startup, we're using horde to manage a cluster of dynamically spawned children. We setup a kubernetes cluster on aws for this. Today I would look at using render instead.

Well, yeah salesforce bought them a decade ago. really just a play at lock in for salesforce devs.

I'm trying to use it but it can't access private repos even if my github account is linked. Not sure what's wrong...

Could you please email support@render.com? We’ll get you up and running ASAP.

Love Render!

So did Cloud 66

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