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I've been using Render and Fly.io

Render is the closest thing to Heroku's ease of deployment currently. Major disadvantage is the larger build times.

If you're interested in sharing more: What determines if you choose render or fly for a given project?

What makes fly not as easy as render?

(I am contemplating moving off heroku, and these seem to be the major contenders for analogous ease of operations).

For existing Heroku projects, I chose Render. For newer projects, I mostly use Fly.io. It also depends on a few more factors like Postgres need of the project, in which case I choose Fly's managed services. Fly.io also makes it easier to deploy docker based projects. Render is more like plug-a-GitHub-repo-and-play.

Bear in mind that I'm only comparing these too in terms of their free tiers.

Thanks! why not fly for existing heroku projects?

I thought that fly didn't actually have a managed postgres, I guess I need to look more into it!

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