Not really, Render is a managed stack, just like Heroku. If you want full control over the stack you can obviously do that. You pick Render so these choices are managed for you.
I still find the trade off worth trying to roll out our own infrastructure (no, k8s isn’t “easy”). And it looks like they are already working on a more robust solution around this particular issue.
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Kind of worrying that something like Cloudflare is so deeply baked into Render and customers don’t have a choice on whether or not they’re using it.
Not really, Render is a managed stack, just like Heroku. If you want full control over the stack you can obviously do that. You pick Render so these choices are managed for you.
Picking technology to pick your products upon is not the customer's decision. It's the one who creates the product that the customers of Render wants.
It would be the same like requiring them to use Postgress instead of Ms Sql as a backend.
I still find the trade off worth trying to roll out our own infrastructure (no, k8s isn’t “easy”). And it looks like they are already working on a more robust solution around this particular issue.