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runako

I would love to be able to deploy from another host, from Subversion, or from a local repo.

February 21, 2020

Anurag Goel

Merged in a post:

CDN for files not in git

Dan Wendorf

Some applications have large files that are impractical to store in git. It would be nice to have a CDN service that supports uploading arbitrary files.

October 20, 2020

Ian Beck

I originally requested this via Slack. I discovered Render.com when the DigitalOcean App Platform failed to meet my needs. The main thing that the DO App Platform has that Render lacks is S3-compatible object storage. Having that available as an additional service on Render would be incredibly helpful.
Minimum viable
* No version control integration required (should be able to upload files via SFTP, S3 spec, or at minimum a CRUD-style API)
* Served by the same CDN as static sites
Living the dream
* S3 compatible object store. This would be fantastic because it means that there's a whole ecosystem of tools available for uploading and managing files, and of course services running on Render would be able to manipulate files in the object store using standard S3-compatible libraries. Which in turn means that services could dispense with persistent file storage for a lot of uses, allowing easier horizontal scaling.

Anurag Goel

Ian Beck: you can set up your own S3 compatible object store on Render easily! https://github.com/render-examples/minio

Anurag Goel

Looking at your use case, I'll merge this into another issue that matches the MVP use case.

Ian Beck

Anurag Goel: Right, I could of course host an S3-compatible object store as a service, backed by a disk. However, economically that doesn't make any sense:
* I'm paying for CPU that I'll likely have no need of, and at the same time limited to the same bandwidth caps that are applied to API services (which is lopsided; an object store needs very little CPU and a lot of bandwidth).
* I'm presumably no longer behind a CDN for my assets, unlike a static site or dedicated object store (maybe that's incorrect? I couldn't find any documentation on whether service responses are served from a CDN in the same way that static sites are).
And most damning, consider a simple cost comparison to DigitalOcean (who with their App Platform is one of your main competitors, IMO, and is working hard to catch up to your service feature set): DO Spaces object store with 250 GB storage and 1 TB egress bandwidth: $5/mo. Render S3 service if it hits the same limits: $7/mo + $.25 x 250 (disk of same size) + $.10 x 900 (GB overage) = $159.50. Ouch.
I don't think this feature request should have been merged; I could upload data to an S3-compatible service backed by a disk outside of version control very easily, but that's the absolute least of the problems that I want to see addressed by my feature request.
Edit:
 granted the cost comparison may not be apples-to-apples; DO has some screwy bandwidth handling that might affect their Spaces offering in conjunction with the App Platform, and I was looking at the default Spaces pricing for that comparison.

Anurag Goel

Ian Beck: we actually have an existing feature request for managed object storage: https://feedback.render.com/features/p/cloud-object-storage

Ian Beck

Anurag Goel: Well, that gets a solid thumbs up from me!

Anurag Goel

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under review