To avoid potential paying customers, like myself, to go to other vendors, make the free tier limited in a different way.
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Harm Korten
I wanted to evaluate Render to host a node.js web service, and used the free tier to try it out. I love the ease of use and intuitive UI, but the free tier hibernation policies, along with it's general performance when not hibernating, prevented me from even evaluating it seriously, due to constant time-outs. I understand you need to limit the free tier in some form to incentivize upgrades to a paid plan, but I strongly suggest to find other avenues to do that. I will be looking elsewhere
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Tej Chilukuri
Thanks for the feedback, we're actively thinking about restructuring our free offering. What do you hope to get out of it? Is it purely evaluating Render performance/features, or are you hoping to run an application in a production-like setting up to a certain scale?
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Tej Chilukuri I need an easy to use, hosting service for mostly REST services to include in my company's workflows. The features look good, but as I said, I cannot evaluate the service, since the responses simply take too long, even when not hibernating. I am running the same service on an old pc here at home and it's 100 times faster. This makes it completely unusable to test within the workflow we're looking to implement, since it constantly times out