# Render alternative for your own servers and the full chain

> Render alternative with SSH to the machines, EU operations, GitLab CI and mobile releases. Not only managed web services.

> Source: https://www.mainpath.ai/en/alternatives/render-alternative/

Render sits between Heroku and a VPS: comfortable, but the machine stays foreign. The comfort ends the moment you want logs on the box itself or need to sign an app.