I've had a generally great experience with Render. Really glad I moved my main side-project to it at the beginning of 2022. I saw usage of my project really ramp up over the course of last year, and I shudder to think of what my opex on Heroku would've been.

We really wanted to like Render, but the performance just wasn't there for us when doing a bunch of load testing against Heroku, which is a shame. Hoping they can make it better in the coming months/years cos we really liked the product.

Interesting. Could you share more about the types of loads you were testing with?

Our tests for simple JavaScript endpoints with a MongoDB call to be just as fast or faster on Render. Additionally the availability of far more tiers of cpu/ram meant we could see the same performance for half the cost.

Node.js + mongodb, definitely some not-so-performant pages with a few more db lookups than probably necessary. We also spun up a new Atlas cluster in the same region to rule out the cross data center latency.

That sounds very similar. We also spun up a Mongo instance in us-east-2 and the performance was fantastic. Round trip from the server to the mongo instance was super low and comparable to the Heroku / Mongo times on us-east-1 Bummer you had a different experience.

Hi Dom! After more evaluation, we think your experience was a Virginia vs Ohio problem. Once we have Virginia set up (along with a few other things our teams talked about) I'd love for y'all to give us another shot.

Is there something different in the configuration that would cause the impact of Virginia vs. Ohio?

That sounds great! Really hoping we can, we're still yet to find an alternative.

Hey Anurag Any chance you can share the timeline on the VA region roll out?

Hey, I’m sure Anurag has a more definitive answer here, but I saw him mention on Twitter that it’s on the calendar for this summer.

Render has been great. I recommend it unreservedly.