Feature Requests

Hi Render team, I’d like to request a South Africa deployment region, ideally Johannesburg or Cape Town. Render is a great platform, but for South African applications the closest practical regions are still far away. This creates unnecessary latency for users, especially for apps with server-rendered pages, APIs, authentication flows, dashboards, and database-backed interactions. A South Africa region would be valuable for: Lower latency for South African users Better performance for SaaS apps, dashboards, and APIs Improved local hosting options for startups and agencies Easier compliance conversations with South African clients who prefer regional hosting Better competitiveness against cloud providers that already offer local infrastructure There is a growing developer and startup market in South Africa, and Render’s simplicity would be a strong fit here if local hosting were available. Please consider adding South Africa as a supported Render region. Thanks.

Currently Grafana Loki is not supported. It would be great if you can add support for a generic HTTPS endpoint so we can build (the users) a custom collector. The endpoint could receive a standard Bearer Token for auth and get a JSON payload. It should be pretty straightforward to implement in your side. I need this to get the load balancer logs so I can get detailed stats regarding our endpoints (the app logs are already being send by Grafana Alloy running inside the docker container). Having support for generic HTTPS endpoints will allow us build custom collectors that can be hosted on Render. The only custom solution I've found so far is to build a generic collector (with SSL certificates) on AWS EC2 which defeats the purpose of simplifying our infra.. Thanks,

It would be really nice to have built-in password protection for static sites, so I don't have to use something like Auth0.

I would love to be able to deploy from another host, from Subversion, or from a local repo.

Add the Apache AGE postgres plugin to enable using Postgres as a Graph DB and avoid an outside call to Neo4J/Memgraph/etc.

There's no African region making our apps build take a little longer to finish. It will be a lot better to have servers in Africa for faster build and deployment time.

Allow deployments for region: Africa