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Digital Ocean App Platform VS Render
Digital Ocean App Platform
Digital Ocean App Platform is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that allows developers to build, deploy, and scale applications on top of DigitalOcean's infrastructure.
With the Digital Ocean App Platform, you can deploy your code with a single click, and the platform will take care of the rest, including provisioning servers, configuring load balancers, and scaling your application as needed. You can deploy a variety of different types of applications to the App Platform, including containerized applications, serverless functions, and static websites.
Render
Render is a cloud platform that is designed to help developers build and deploy modern, scalable applications. With Render, you can deploy your code to a global network of servers, and the platform will take care of the rest, including provisioning servers, scaling your application to meet demand, and providing security and compliance.
Render supports a wide range of technologies and frameworks, including popular languages such as Python, Node.js, and Ruby, as well as containerization platforms like Docker. You can use Render to deploy a variety of different types of applications, including web applications, mobile backends, and APIs.
Render also provides a number of tools and services to help you manage your deployments, including continuous integration and delivery, database and file storage, and analytics and monitoring.
Digital Ocean App Platform
- Global CDN-based hosting
- enables the usage of unique authentication and authorisation sources
- Git-based workflow and built-in support for continuous integration and deployment allow for the customization of the pipeline with unique actions
- Pay-per-use fees are assessed according to the resources utilised
- connects to more services like GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket
- flexible, suitable for a variety of online applications, and offers more infrastructure control
Render
- Global hosting and scaling automatically
- Supporting custom domains
- Pay-per-use
- Integrates with other providers such as GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket
- suitable for web applications that demand high scalability, security, and built-in connectors
- Web application development and deployment support built-in
| FrameWork | Digital Ocean App Platform | Render |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | Learn more | Learn more |
| Infrastructure | DigitalOcean Cloud Cloudflare for CDN | AWS and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Depends on the region |
| Continuous deployment | ||
| Automated builds from Git | ||
| Instant rollbacks to any version | ||
| Site previews for every push | ||
| Compatible with all Static Site Generators | ||
| Notifications | Slack, Email, GitHub | |
| Team Management | ||
| Custom domains | ||
| Automatic HTTPS | ||
| Rewrites & Redirects | ||
| Password Protection | ||
| Websites | 3 | Unlimited |
| Build Minutes | 100 minutes /month | Unlimited |
| Concurrent builds | 1 | 1 /service |
| Bandwidth | 1 GB /app | 100GB /month |
| Team Members | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Build Time Per Deployment | 60 minutes | N/A |
| Build Memory Limit (in MiB) | 8192 MiB | N/A |
| Max team members before switch to custom pricing | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Git contributors have to be Team Members | ||
| Serverless Functions (API) | ||
| Edge Functions | ||
| Background Functions | Workers | Background Workers |
| CRON Jobs | ||
| CLI | doctl | |
| Extensions | ||
| Environment Variables | ||
| Build Logs | ||
| Build Canceling | ||
| Analytics | ||
| Authentication | ||
| Database | PostgreSQL | PostgreSQL |
| Asset Optimizations | ||
| A/B Testing | ||
| Form Handling | ||
| Data Storage | Spaces, compatible with Amazon S3 | Render Disks |
| Push Notifications | ||
| Machine Learning | ||
| Two-factor authentication | ||
| Team Logs | ||
| SOC2 | SOC1 for now | |
| ISO27001 | ||
| GDPR | ||
| Carbon Neutral | N/A | |
| Carbon-free Energy | Not clear policy | N/A |
Deployment Platforms
The Jamstack ecosystem is rapidly evolving, and with it -- we're witnessing a wider usage of static site generators, which are certainly a big part of the Jamstack technology.
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