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One of our users just created this screencast for deploy Elixir apps on Render. Hope it’s helpful!
https://twitter.com/AlchemistCamp/status/1161327002839703552
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AlchemistCamp
Hey, thanks for sharing! I’m still doing most my stuff on Digital Ocean due to price and my Gitlab CI/CD workflow, but I’ve been very impressed with Render.
It’s both cheaper an easier to setup than Heroku. It’s even simpler than the no longer available Nanobox setup I used originally. Render is definitely worth checking out for anyone not interested in managing their own VPS!
seanwash
Beyond the no restart every 24 hrs, I think another feature that makes render appealing to me is the ability to run Elixir nodes in cluster. On Heroku I’m more or less limited to very basic OTP things unless I’m misinformed.
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@hypercore Here’s a link to a list of Heroku’s limitations as written in the Phoenix docs Deploying on Heroku — Phoenix v1.8.8
hypercore
As a former nanobox user who’s been looking for a similar service to switch to, this offering was looking good enough to convince me to pay for it. But in what seems to be the last few days, there’s been an update in pricing (starting september) which has basically halved the amount of vps resources you get for the same price. So instead of paying $5 for a 1GB, 1vCPU server, now you have to pay $7 for a 512MB, shared CPU server. This is literally the same offering as heroku, which is a far better tested platform and offers much better integrations. It does appear that the pricing scales better than heroku, but that’s not saying a great deal. For example, the Pro Plus service (8GB, 4 CPUs) comes in at $175. A digitalocean vps with the same specs costs $40, almost a x4.5 multiple. Obviously some people will value the convenience of deployment more than i do , but for me personally it’s not easy justifying the price when i can automate a similar workflow in 10 minutes using ansible and gitlab (which provides free continuous integration). If you want to avoid devops by any means necessary, then maybe this service is worth the money. But if you don’t mind spending 10 minutes to set up a similar workflow at no cost, I would personally recommend doing this.
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anuragg
We’re hoping to roll out EU support by early next year. Render databases are on the same data center/internal network as the compute.