A Render alternative that runs on your own servers
Build from GitHub or pull an image. Your machines, your cloud bill, and no idle spin-down.
What you get moving from Render
Render runs your services on its own infrastructure and bills per service. Serversinc deploys to servers you own and bills per server.
Machines you own
Import a box you run, or provision one on DigitalOcean or Hetzner with your key.
Per server, not per service
Run as many apps and databases as fit. £5 a month for three servers.
No idle spin-down
Applications run while the server runs, on every plan.
Rollback on a failed check
Traffic stays on the old container until the new one passes its health check.
Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB
Provisioned on your server, with users, schemas and grants, no per-instance charge.
In your bucket
Scheduled database and volume backups to S3, R2, B2 or Spaces.
The bill, side by side
Render charges a workspace plan (Hobby $0, Pro $25 flat) plus compute per service, from $7 a month for 512 MB, plus bandwidth past the allowance at $0.15 per GB.
- Platform fee
- Render $0 Hobby, $25/mo Pro Serversinc £5/mo for three servers
- Compute
- Render Per service: $7 (512 MB), $25 (2 GB), $85 (4 GB) Serversinc Your server at your provider's price; run as many apps as fit
- Three small web services
- Render $21/mo on Hobby, $46/mo on Pro Serversinc £5/mo, plus one server from your provider
- Bandwidth
- Render Allowance per plan, then $0.15/GB Serversinc Not billed by Serversinc; your provider's terms apply
- Seats
- Render 1 on Hobby, unlimited on Pro Serversinc Up to 10, no seat charge
Prices checked on 2026-09-27, in each vendor's own currency.
From Render to Serversinc
Run both side by side. Cut over when the new deploy is green.
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01
Provision a server
Pick a size on DigitalOcean or Hetzner that fits all your services, or import a server you own.
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Recreate each service
Point a GitHub application at the repo, with a Dockerfile at its root, or deploy the image. Copy env vars in bulk.
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Move the databases
Provision Postgres on Serversinc, restore a pg_dump from Render, then schedule backups.
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04
Switch the domain
Set the domain, deploy, confirm the health check passes, then move DNS.
Switching from Render
Bring your first server
£5 a month covers your first three servers. Every server after that adds £2.