Run web services, databases and cron jobs from Git.
A friendly step up from front-end hosts: Render runs a real back end, Postgres and background workers without you managing servers. Free web services sleep after 15 minutes idle and take about a minute to wake.
Key info
- Pricing
- Freemium
- Platform
- Web
- Category
- Hosting
- Best for
- Intermediate
- Free plan
- Web services that sleep after 15 minutes idle, static sites, and a Postgres database that expires after 30 days
- Paid plans from
- $7 a month per always-on service
- Hosts
- Web services, static sites, background workers and cron jobs
- Frameworks
- Next.js, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Go, Rust or any Docker image
- Databases
- Managed Postgres and Redis-compatible Key Value
- Custom domains
- Yes
- Email hosting
- No
- Deploy from
- GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket or a Docker registry
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