I'm new to Strapi and trying to get it to production on Render.com

I don’t know render.com, but it sounds like your database is not persistent. What is your database client? /config/database.js
If you are using sqlite, the db file is recreated on every deploy. Render.com also offers Postgres database. That’s what you want to use.
Also check out this instruction from render.com: Deploy Strapi | Render · Cloud Hosting for Developers

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