Hey folks,
I’m using my 7-day free trial to get an idea of how things work on Render. Looks like something’s not quite configured correctly, though, and it’s getting in the way of my testing/evaluating.
As part of my evaluation I’ve set up a Postgres DB and a Node.js web service. I just went to set up a static site to see how that would integrate with the Node.js web services, and got this message:
Payment Information Needed
You have created two paid services on Render already!
Please enter your payment details to create more paid services.
But static sites are free (specifically, $0/mo - Pricing | Render · Cloud Hosting for Developers).
It’s not a huge deal, I can just enter my payment details, but this seems like a really common thing for people to want to do: A DB, an API server (Node.js in my case), and a static site that talks to the API. It would be good to be able to eval it without roadblocks.
Obviously I can serve the static assets from the Node.js server, but I’m keen to see how this would really work, and I wouldn’t do that in production (at least, not if I can avoid it). That’s what the CDN is for. 
(I’m aware of the static assets feature request that has the status “planned” which I was very glad to see.)
Why prevent creating static sites during the free trial, even if you have two “paid” services, if they’re free?
TIA,
– T.J.