I don't have any experience with Render so I guess take anything I have to say with a grain of salt?

Heroku does feel a little stagnant and expensive ever since Salesforce acquired it. And I switched over to hatchbox.io for my Rails apps because of cost.

But, Heroku does have a huge marketplace of add-ons that are pretty nice, scales neatly, and, as a company, is financially stable so I wouldn't worry about having to switch my infrastructure a year or two down the road.

I usually find the cheaper, recently funded, startups get acquired, sunsetted, or end up raising prices down the road cause they have to — unless they use some new technology makes their strategy dramatically more profitable, but I bet both Heroku and Render's costs are the same AWS services.

So, with that out of the way:

• Is there an issue with your current infrastructure choice?
• Will the cost of switching to a new platform, and the risk + cost of switching back, be more than the amount you'd save on Render?
• Is there something Heroku doesn't do that's stopping you from shipping a feature to customers?

I'm personally a recovering tool-tinkerer and switcher. For so many years... Probably because it's a problem I'm more comfortable solving rather than the whole marketing/sales/shipping thing 😅

I'm now about using the most boring, reliable, and familiar tools I have. If I keep playing this new-and-shiny game I'll never ship shit! 🤣

Hope you find what works best for you.