Render
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What is Render?
A unified cloud platform to host static sites, backend APIs, Docker containers, and fully managed databases with automatic SSL and continuous deploys.
Render provides a modern alternative to traditional PaaS providers by offering predictable pricing, private networking, and persistent disks. It can automatically build and deploy web services directly from Git, or run raw Dockerfiles, while also offering fully managed Postgres and Redis instances with automated backups.
How it relates to Orbit
Orbit’s built-in deploy health covers Vercel and Railway; a Render-hosted project still runs through the queue, but its deploys are not tracked in Orbit. See Watch Deploy Health for details.
When you would use it
You use Render when you need a reliable, fully managed cloud to host your entire application stack—both frontend and complex backend services—without managing raw infrastructure.
Common operations
- Hosting a Python/Django backend API and its database.
- Running background worker processes for asynchronous task queues.