Case Study: Hodinkee cuts cloud costs by 56% with Render

Hodinkee cut cloud costs by 56% with Render

Hodinkee, the media company behind a popular watch enthusiast platform, needed a simpler way to manage infrastructure as it grew. After moving from Heroku to AWS, its small engineering team found that the added complexity slowed development and made routine operations more time-consuming, even as it tried to improve reliability and control. Render was the cloud platform it chose to address those challenges.

With Render’s native Ruby support, Blueprints, and managed Postgres, Hodinkee migrated services quickly with minimal downtime and no major rewrites. The team moved 100% of its infrastructure to Render, cut cloud costs by 56% compared to Heroku, and experienced less than 15 minutes of downtime during the transition. Render also helped engineers deploy and manage infrastructure more easily, accelerating development and improving day-to-day productivity.

Hodinkee

Brayden Sterrett

Head of Technology