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Cloud platform deployments run ParadeDB Community, which does not include WAL support. This makes them suitable for hobby, development, and staging environments. For production, we recommend ParadeDB Enterprise deployed via Kubernetes or BYOC.
Render is a cloud platform that makes it easy to deploy and manage applications. The ParadeDB Render Blueprint provides a one-click deployment that runs ParadeDB Community as a private service with persistent SSD storage. You can either follow Render’s official ParadeDB deployment guide or use the steps below.

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One-Click Deploy

The fastest way to get started is to click the button below, which deploys ParadeDB to your Render account. Deploy to Render This will:
  1. Create a private service named paradedb running the official ParadeDB Docker image.
  2. Attach a 10 GB persistent disk for your database data, mounted at /var/lib/postgresql.
  3. Set up POSTGRES_USER, POSTGRES_PASSWORD, and POSTGRES_DB environment variables automatically.

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Manual Setup

If you prefer to configure the deployment yourself:
  1. Click Use this template at the top of the render-blueprint repository to create your own copy (or fork it).
  2. In the Render dashboard, create a new Private Service using the Existing Image runtime, pointing at docker.io/paradedb/paradedb:latest (or your preferred tag).
  3. Attach a Disk of at least 10 GB mounted at /var/lib/postgresql.
  4. Set the following environment variables:
VariableDescriptionDefault
POSTGRES_USERDatabase userpostgres
POSTGRES_PASSWORDDatabase passwordAuto-generated
POSTGRES_DBDatabase nameparadedb

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Connecting to ParadeDB

ParadeDB runs as a private service on Render, which means it is not exposed to the public internet.

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From another Render service

Connect from any other service in your Render private network using the service name as the host: 
psql -h paradedb -U postgres -d paradedb

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From your local machine

Since the service isn’t exposed publicly, SSH into the service and run psql from inside the container: 
ssh srv-XXXXXXXXXXXXX@ssh.<region>.render.com
psql -U postgres -d paradedb
Replace srv-XXXXXXXXXXXXX with your service ID from the Render dashboard, and make sure you’ve added an SSH key to your Render account first.