From Heroku to Render

A developer migrates a personal Rails photo-sharing app from Heroku to Render after Heroku announced entering maintenance mode. After a failed attempt with Fly.io due to confusing setup and validation errors, Render proved straightforward: Docker-based deployment via GitHub's container registry, easy PostgreSQL setup with automatic DATABASE_URL linking, a simple database restore using heroku pg:backups and pg_restore, and a smooth DNS cutover. The whole process required minimal manual configuration compared to Heroku's classic git-push workflow, and the author praises Render's UI simplicity compared to AWS.