Hi nswekosk hope your having a jolly day!
See this link Deployment Platform: Render ✅ There are many posts of the issues people have deploying their models. I use exactly the same code to deploy locally on my mac, via docker on my mac in a virtual directory on my mac or on an online host.
Pay particular notice to posts about pip list in relation to requirements.txt, your torch version and server.py config.
I nearly always start with this repository starter code https://course.fast.ai/deployment_render.html and build on it when I have it working.
Lastly this Running, Deploying Fastai successes: Links, Tutorials, Stories is a thread started recently which shows various ways people have deployed their models.
Hope this helps
mrfabulous1 