Render
Heroku-style PaaS. Deploy web services, background workers, cron jobs, and managed Postgres from Git. Free tier for static sites and small services.
Render is the cleanest modern Heroku replacement. You connect a Git repo, pick a service type (web, worker, cron, static, Postgres), and Render handles the rest. The UI and DX are friendly, autoscaling is built in, and the pricing is predictable. Render is a great default for teams who want a managed runtime without learning Kubernetes or Fly's lower-level model. It does not match Fly for global edge or AWS for breadth, but for most app workloads it is enough.
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