Case Study: BeerMenus boosts uptime and cuts costs with Render

How BeerMenus Elevated its Craft with a Seamless Move to Render

BeerMenus, a craft beer menu management platform for bars, restaurants, and bottle shops, had run its infrastructure on Heroku for more than 10 years. Over time, the team faced increasing reliability issues, deploy blocks, and frustrating support interactions, especially as their Ruby on Rails application with PostgreSQL, Redis, and Memcached grew more complex.

Render helped BeerMenus migrate with minimal risk by setting up a live database sync and supporting a cutover with about 15 minutes of downtime during a low-traffic window. Since moving to Render, BeerMenus has seen comparable or better uptime, 35% lower monthly hosting costs despite increased capacity, faster issue resolution through responsive support, and improved preview environments with fully isolated databases.

BeerMenus

Eric Stephens

Founder