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Render VS Digital Ocean App Platform
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
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
- 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
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
| FrameWork | Render | Digital Ocean App Platform |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | Learn more | Learn more |
| Infrastructure | AWS and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Depends on the region | DigitalOcean Cloud Cloudflare for CDN |
| 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 | Unlimited | 3 |
| Build Minutes | Unlimited | 100 minutes /month |
| Concurrent builds | 1 /service | 1 |
| Bandwidth | 100GB /month | 1 GB /app |
| Team Members | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Build Time Per Deployment | N/A | 60 minutes |
| Build Memory Limit (in MiB) | N/A | 8192 MiB |
| Max team members before switch to custom pricing | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Git contributors have to be Team Members | ||
| Serverless Functions (API) | ||
| Edge Functions | ||
| Background Functions | Background Workers | 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 | Render Disks | Spaces, compatible with Amazon S3 |
| Push Notifications | ||
| Machine Learning | ||
| Two-factor authentication | ||
| Team Logs | ||
| SOC2 | SOC1 for now | |
| ISO27001 | ||
| GDPR | ||
| Carbon Neutral | N/A | |
| Carbon-free Energy | N/A | Not clear policy |
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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