QuotaGuard and Render Integration Guide
QuotaGuard Static IP Static IPs allow your services on Render to send outbound traffic through a load balanced pair of static IP addresses. Once set up, you can use QuotaGuard’s IPs to connect to IP-restricted environments outside your Render network.
You do not need QuotaGuard to connect to your databases or private services on Render.
Getting Started
After creating a QuotaGuard account, you will be redirected to your dashboard, where you can find all the information needed to proxy your traffic through QuotaGuard’s static IPs.
For more information on navigating the QuotaGuard Dashboard, including how to manage your Account Information, Subscription Configuration, Proxy Connection Strings, and Static IP Addresses, please visit our QuotaGuard Account Administration Dashboard documentation
Configuring Your Application
You can configure QuotaGuard the same way you would configure your app to use any HTTP proxy. QuotaGuard provides examples for common languages:
Most of these examples involve adding the QUOTAGUARDSTATIC_URL environment variable to your service in the Render Dashboard. Set the value to the HTTP/HTTPS URL from your QuotaGuard Outbound Proxy Setup page. Any requests your application makes using QuotaGuard’s proxy URL will be routed through one of the IPs displayed in your QuotaGuard configuration.
Using QuotaGuard Static IPs will add an additional hop to your network requests and can affect response times for your application. Make sure to test application response times before and after enabling QuotaGuard.
Testing Your Implementation
Requests to ip.quotaguard.com always return the request client’s IP address. Requests made to this address with your QuotaGuard proxy configuration will return one of the static IPs listed in your configuration.
$ curl -x QUOTAGUARDSTATIC_URL ip.quotaguard.com
=> {"ip":"52.34.188.175"}