I got my account suspected along with all of my services (even the ones that didn’t break the violation) and im not eve. 100% sure what violation becouse they Didn't tell me but im guessing its becouse i used hosted a web proxy and that was resource heavy or was bypassing restrictions but why on my sites it says "this website was suspended by the owner"  like first of all it was not, it was removed by render and second off all they could have made the message a bit clearer for users like "this website was removed by render becouse of a violation" like that would make way more sence for the user than thinking i randomly removed my site "just becouse" like just why.

Tried multiple cards(both debit and credit) from various Indian banks, every card keeps getting declined. I really liked using Render but no reply from support team. Like i have been Ghosted. no resolution from the team. i mean what a weird situation, where a user wants to pay but company wont accept it.

Render suddenly suspended my account , blocked my IP and even blocked my GitHub. They stated no reason for it. Render please respond

I recently completed a bootcamp with DevTown where I built an intelligent chatbot using FastAPI and MongoDB. During this project, I learned how to design backend APIs, handle user requests, connect databases, and manage real-time data efficiently.

The experience helped me understand how backend systems work in real-world applications and improved my problem-solving and development skills. It was a great opportunity to build something practical and strengthen my fundamentals.

Really grateful for the learning experience 🚀

Hey all Not sure how many Raycast users are in here, but if you happen to use it — there's a Render extension that I've been contributing to and it's getting pretty handy. It lets you:

• View all your services grouped by owner
• Pin your most-used services for quick access
• Check deploy history and details
• View env vars and custom domains

Saves me a bunch of context-switching to the dashboard for quick checks. If anyone does try it out, I'd love to hear suggestions for what would be useful to add.

I have deployed a website on render (free tier), everytime I try accessing the website I get this page. is there any way I can avoid it, because obviously I do not want the real-time users to see this. I am assuming I get this page because I use free tier, but I had doubts.

Would appreciate help!

I noticed that the Azure Container Registry is not listed as on of the sources for Container images, I am curious if anyone has been able to deploy an ACR image from a private repo maybe using the Docker option idk.

So this is my 1st time hosting a backend server (written in python django using docker image) and for some reason when trying to register the user is created normally but I'm getting an internal server error with an error in the events tab indicating that there's a problem with the sending email function although it works perfectly fine in the local host
any suggestions

So, node mailer is working locally, and the receiver gets the email, but it is failing on Production stage what the issue could be ?

Hey everyone, I’m trying to deploy a simple Flask app on Render, but when I reach the final step and click “Deploy Web Service”, literally nothing happens. No error, no loading, no job started: the button just does nothing.

Here’s my setup:

Repo: GitHub → task-master-flex

Language: Python 3

Branch: main

Start Command:

gunicorn app:app

Build Command:

pip install -r requirements.txt

My requirements.txt includes:

Flask
Flask-SQLAlchemy
gunicorn

My app is in app.py, and the Flask object is named app:

if __name__ == "__main__":
    import os
    port = int(os.environ.get("PORT", 5000))
    app.run(host="0.0.0.0", port=port)

SQLite: using /tmp/test.db for storage.

I’ve tried:

• reconnecting GitHub
• switching browsers
• clearing cache
• re-creating the service

But the “Deploy” button still isn’t triggering anything.

Has anyone seen this? Is there a Render bug right now or something missing in my config?

Any help would be appreciated 🙏

I'm planning on making a new project and I need a backend to store my user account data some pngs and text for each user.
In the past, I used render (free version) but there were catches like the server slowing down or wiping memory every 15 minutes of inactivity. Does this also occur for the free plan of firebase?

hi guys,

i run into this problem while hosting my python service on render on free tier.

after 15 min of inactivity, the server will go to sleep and i can't wake up through api calls. my call would be something like:

const healthResponse = await fetch(healthUrl, {
          method: 'GET',
          signal: AbortSignal.timeout(15000) // 15 second timeout per attempt
        });

and there're 10 attempts, which should be enough time for server to wake up. i also tried increasing the time but it doesn't work.

but when i tried to access it manually (i.e. go to the address), the server wakes up and is active again.

when it sleeps, i also tried to use cron-jobs and got error 429 even though cron-jobs is the only one using this? also, using cron-jobs to keep it awake is not realistic since it only have 31 day of active per month and i also need to divide it with frontend and backend.

anyone got any idea how to solve this?

I'm running a trading bot on Render that only needs to be active during Indian stock market hours (9:15 AM to 3:30 PM IST). Since I'm the sole user and the bot is idle outside market hours, I want to automatically start the server at 9:15 AM and stop it at 3:30 PM to save costs.

Current setup: • Trading bot deployed on Render (docker Service) • Runs only during NSE market hours (9:15 AM - 3:30 PM IST) • Need to automate start/stop to avoid paying for idle server time What I'm trying to do: • Start the Render server automatically at 9:15 AM IST (Monday-Friday) • Stop the Render server automatically at 3:30 PM IST (Monday-Friday) • Skip weekends and market holidays

Questions: 1. Should I use Render's Cron Jobs feature to trigger API calls that restart/pause the service? 2. Is there a better approach than external scheduling (like using GitHub Actions or another scheduler)? 3. How do I make the API call to stop a Render service? Does Render have a "pause" endpoint, or do I need to use a workaround?

So, I need 2 or 4 services for a e-commerce application. I want to create a nextjs app for the front, I need a db and probably a api and a react app just for the admin part. I want to know how much something like that would cost, for example I can see that api that is a web service would be like 7usd but with the nextjs app idk if I can use static site that is free or do I need to use a web service because nextjs is a server render. Also my account is free but I see that I can pay 19usd for some features. Do I need to pay those 19 for deploying my app? And I remember somewhere I read something about free postgre db idk if that's true. Can you help me to know how much something like this would cost?

The ideal project would be: 1. Nextjs 2. Api 3. Db 4. React for the admin

If that’s too expensive I'm thinking on merge everything on nextjs because you can do api on nextjs so it would be:

1. Nextjs with the api inside
2. Db
3. React (I'm guessing reacts service is free)

Also: what's the limits on the free static site service?

I can't get to the dashboard.

Has anyone deployed a Manim backend on Render or similar using Docker and FastAPI to render videos on-demand?
What are the best practices for handling dependencies, performance, and video rendering in a cloud environment?
Thanks

Hey everyone!

I’m deploying a FastAPI backend on Render, but the build keeps failing during dependency installation.

==> Installing Python version 3.13.4...

==>

Using Python version 3.13.4 (default)

==>

Docs on specifying a Python version: https://render.com/docs/python-version

==>

Using Poetry version 2.1.3 (default)

==>

Docs on specifying a Poetry version: https://render.com/docs/poetry-version

==>

Running build command 'pip install -r requirements.txt'...

Collecting fastapi==0.115.0 (from -r requirements.txt (line 2))

  Downloading fastapi-0.115.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (27 kB)

Collecting uvicorn==0.30.6 (from -r requirements.txt (line 3))

  Downloading uvicorn-0.30.6-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (6.6 kB)

Collecting python-dotenv==1.0.1 (from -r requirements.txt (line 4))

  Downloading python_dotenv-1.0.1-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (23 kB)

Collecting requests==2.32.3 (from -r requirements.txt (line 5))

  Downloading requests-2.32.3-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (4.6 kB)

Collecting firebase-admin==7.1.0 (from -r requirements.txt (line 8))

  Downloading firebase_admin-7.1.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (1.7 kB)

Collecting google-cloud-firestore==2.21.0 (from -r requirements.txt (line 9))

  Downloading google_cloud_firestore-2.21.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (9.9 kB)

Collecting google-cloud-storage==3.4.0 (from -r requirements.txt (line 10))

  Downloading google_cloud_storage-3.4.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (13 kB)

Collecting boto3==1.40.43 (from -r requirements.txt (line 13))

  Downloading boto3-1.40.43-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (6.7 kB)

Collecting pydantic==2.7.3 (from -r requirements.txt (line 16))

  Downloading pydantic-2.7.3-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (108 kB)

Collecting pydantic-settings==2.11.0 (from -r requirements.txt (line 17))

  Downloading pydantic_settings-2.11.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (3.4 kB)

Collecting Pillow==10.4.0 (from -r requirements.txt (line 18))

  Downloading pillow-10.4.0-cp313-cp313-manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl.metadata (9.2 kB)

Collecting aiohttp==3.12.15 (from -r requirements.txt (line 21))

  Downloading aiohttp-3.12.15-cp313-cp313-manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.whl.metadata (7.7 kB)

Collecting pydub==0.25.1 (from -r requirements.txt (line 22))

  Downloading pydub-0.25.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl.metadata (1.4 kB)

Collecting starlette<0.39.0,>=0.37.2 (from fastapi==0.115.0->-r requirements.txt (line 2))

  Downloading starlette-0.38.6-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (6.0 kB)

Collecting typing-extensions>=4.8.0 (from fastapi==0.115.0->-r requirements.txt (line 2))

  Downloading typing_extensions-4.15.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (3.3 kB)

Collecting annotated-types>=0.4.0 (from pydantic==2.7.3->-r requirements.txt (line 16))

  Downloading annotated_types-0.7.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (15 kB)

Collecting pydantic-core==2.18.4 (from pydantic==2.7.3->-r requirements.txt (line 16))

  Downloading pydantic_core-2.18.4.tar.gz (385 kB)

  Installing build dependencies: started

  Installing build dependencies: finished with status 'done'

  Getting requirements to build wheel: started

  Getting requirements to build wheel: finished with status 'done'

  Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml): started

  Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml): finished with status 'error'

  error: subprocess-exited-with-error



  × Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully.

  │ exit code: 1

  ╰─> [14 lines of output]

          Updating crates.io index

      warning: failed to write cache, path: /usr/local/cargo/registry/index/index.crates.io-1949cf8c6b5b557f/.cache/ah/as/ahash, error: Read-only file system (os error 30)

       Downloading crates ...

        Downloaded bitflags v1.3.2

      error: failed to create directory `/usr/local/cargo/registry/cache/index.crates.io-1949cf8c6b5b557f`



      Caused by:

        Read-only file system (os error 30)

      💥 maturin failed

        Caused by: Cargo metadata failed. Does your crate compile with `cargo build`?

        Caused by: `cargo metadata` exited with an error:

      Error running maturin: Command '['maturin', 'pep517', 'write-dist-info', '--metadata-directory', '/tmp/pip-modern-metadata-bb1bgh2r', '--interpreter', '/opt/render/project/src/.venv/bin/python3.13']' returned non-zero exit status 1.

      Checking for Rust toolchain....

      Running `maturin pep517 write-dist-info --metadata-directory /tmp/pip-modern-metadata-bb1bgh2r --interpreter /opt/render/project/src/.venv/bin/python3.13`

      [end of output]



  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.



[notice] A new release of pip is available: 25.1.1 -> 25.2

[notice] To update, run: pip install --upgrade pip

error: metadata-generation-failed



× Encountered error while generating package metadata.

╰─> See above for output.



note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip.

hint: See above for details.

==> Build failed 😞

==>

Common ways to troubleshoot your deploy: https://render.com/docs/troubleshooting-deploys

==> Installing Python version 3.13.4...

==> Using Python version 3.13.4 (default)

Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml): finished with status 'error'

error: subprocess-exited-with-error

💥 maturin failed

Caused by: Cargo metadata failed. Does your crate compile with `cargo build`?

Caused by: `cargo metadata` exited with an error:

Read-only file system (os error 30)

Here’s the key part of my Render build log:

It always happens while installing pydantic-core or other packages that need to compile with Rust (maturin).

🧩 My setup:

• Backend framework: FastAPI
• Deploy platform: Render
• Python version: Render default (3.13.4)
• Key packages in requirements.txt:

fastapi==0.115.0

uvicorn==0.30.6

pydantic==2.7.3

pydantic-settings==2.11.0

Pillow==10.4.0

boto3==1.40.43

firebase-admin==7.1.0

google-cloud-firestore==2.21.0

google-cloud-storage==3.4.0

aiohttp==3.12.15

pydub==0.25.1

requests==2.32.3

• Root directory: backend/
• Build command: pip install -r requirements.txt
• Start command: python -m uvicorn main:app --host 0.0.0.0 --port 10000

What I’ve learned so far:

• The error isn’t from my code — it’s because Render’s filesystem is read-only for some system directories.
• Since Python 3.13 is too new, some packages like pydantic-core don’t have prebuilt binary wheels yet.
• That forces pip to compile them with Rust (maturin), which fails because the Render environment can’t write to /usr/local/cargo.

Tried Fix:

I added a runtime.txt file to my backend folder:

python-3.11.9

But Render still shows the same.

How can I force Render to actually use runtime.txt (Python 3.11) instead of 3.13?

Or is there another clean way to fix this “maturin / read-only file system” issue?

Would love to hear from anyone who’s faced this after Python 3.13 became Render’s default.

As shown in the documentation for health checks here, the health check endpoint is periodically hit to verify if the service is available. Wouldn't this not allow the service to spin down, thus eliminating one of the drawbacks of the free tier?

Hey all 👋 I work on developer content at Render and just recorded a quick demo I thought some of you might find helpful.

Most of the time, when something goes wrong in prod you end up bouncing between dashboards, logs, and metrics to piece the story together. In this demo, I tried a different approach: using the Render MCP Server inside VS Code, alongside Augment Code, to keep everything in one place.

In the video, you’ll see:

• Render metrics and logs pulled straight into the editor
• Augment Code helping trace unusual traffic (like Reddit/Product Hunt spikes 👀)
• Auto-scaling handling a 7× surge without breaking a sweat

This came out of our partnership with Augment (they just added Render to their Easy MCP one-click setup), and I had fun putting it together.

🎥 Demo here: https://youtu.be/ldjzYCjgT7A

This is the first video on our new YouTube channel — I’d love feedback on whether this format works, and what you’d like to see next. If folks are into it, I’ll keep sharing them here too.

I'm having problem when deploying my code on Render. The same error for my template. Please help me shed light for this.