:+1: I would very much like this as well. Coming over from Heroku, I wish Render offers something as convenient as this:

For static sites, would love to be able to just copy over completed builds as a zip. This would also allow for "patching" of static sites when the majority of the content does not change.

I'm surprised this isn't a much easier use case than linking into customer Git repos, which in addition to being a security concern, is more "cool" than useful.

if you want to add static website forms to render this is helpful

Yes this is absolutely a required feature. It leaves us vulnerable to single point of failure for code repos if it ever gets compromised. Why also would we share our entire repository with render. I love the render services and have used it for other projects, but in this day and age where everything is getting compromised, we really need the ability to have more control over this. Some of us have clients who are extremely paranoid and for good reason. None of the files on github are encrypted by default unless you use git-crypt or something like that. This is really sad. The tech support response to my question is just answered with a very poor bedside manner. You guys love to alienate devs.

Without support for self hosted gitlab, having no way to just push code to render like you can with Heroku, we can't even begin to try migrating render.

I'd like to be able to point a static site to a Sourcehut repo rather than use GitHub or GitLab. I know there's probably no API to listen for pushes, but even having a "deploy" button on Render to pull and deploy would be acceptable, or better yet, give me a git remote to push to.

This would be great, I have many clients that take weeks to approve a github integration (corporate clients are even more weirded out because the person who manages the company github account has no idea who I am) which means I cannot deploy any code until an arbitrary time, causing many delays.

support for things like gogs and gitea would be nice, or a way to deploy if you have your own private ci

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.

* 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

* 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.