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Efficient, Straight to the point, PaaS solution
What do you like best about the product?
Customer's value preponderance
Real life knowledge
Real life knowledge
What do you dislike about the product?
Classical PaaS drawback = no "under the hood" access
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
No more energy spent on cloud infra expertise.
Rather focus on application.
Rather focus on application.
The hosting solution Product Managers needed
What do you like best about the product?
Platform.sh, since years already, offer the key ability to deliver and seamlessly test new features just as if they were on a live site.
No matter what kind of agile workflow you work with (or non-agile, for that matter), new features can be deployed in test environments from a "copy" of the production version. May you need to run automated tests (unit tests, integration tests, performance tests), or just "clic-clic-clic-it-works" tests, this just removes the "it works on my machine" risk.
No matter what kind of agile workflow you work with (or non-agile, for that matter), new features can be deployed in test environments from a "copy" of the production version. May you need to run automated tests (unit tests, integration tests, performance tests), or just "clic-clic-clic-it-works" tests, this just removes the "it works on my machine" risk.
What do you dislike about the product?
Platform.sh is a change of paradigm. From a DevOps world where developers and "Ops" have fine grained control over every service that get your app running, they give away *some* control, as Platform.sh is a "fully managed hosting". To some extent, of course. Developers request and configure services as they code, depending on the support provided by Platform.sh.
Can they do everything as before? No. Is it less time-consuming now? Most Likely. Now such a huge change of workflow needs some change management in the mindsets. That also has a cost in time, money, and in some organizations it has a "human cost".
It's all a matter of choice.
Can they do everything as before? No. Is it less time-consuming now? Most Likely. Now such a huge change of workflow needs some change management in the mindsets. That also has a cost in time, money, and in some organizations it has a "human cost".
It's all a matter of choice.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As a non-developer, I'm given enough tools to manage some simple sites myself.
As a product manager, I'm given the tools to review more reliably new features developments.
In all perspectives, I'm gaining consequents amounts of time, and confidence on new deploys.
As a product manager, I'm given the tools to review more reliably new features developments.
In all perspectives, I'm gaining consequents amounts of time, and confidence on new deploys.
Great product to et into CI/CD
What do you like best about the product?
Great product for those who want to get into CI/CD smoothly. It was my first steps with a PaaS. Used it with eZ Platform with the help of eZ Launchpad. Customer service was really helpful to help me out at the few places I was stucked. Went to a session tutorial they organized at a dev conference and was really satisfied by what I learned.
What do you dislike about the product?
If I didn't have the help of an onboarding tool (eZ Launchpad, in my case), it would have been really hard for me as I have very little devops knowledge. I have heard that they will have such tools in the near future that will cover a range of applications.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Hosting a website built with eZ Platform 2.5. Allowing it to make branches for new features and bug resolution in a breeze.
Great website deployment workflow and top-notch personal service
What do you like best about the product?
Platform.sh's technology allows you to deploy your website quickly. Running copies of the site in multiple environments allows near-live testing, which reduces downtime and increases quality. Their "deploy on Friday" slogan is true. You won't look back.
What do you dislike about the product?
I'm missing the possibility to use automated provisioning. If a site needs more resources due to a spike in traffic I have to manually upgrade the plan.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Rapid deployment and multiple testing environments means sites means our deployment and testing workflow has improved. There is also a cost benefit over other services, where Platform.sh seems to require less effort to do more.
We don't think or talk about deployments anymore
What do you like best about the product?
They take care of running the application so we can focus to build it.
The usage simplicity is THE best. That's so clear and super flexible, in 2 simple files you can get your complex architecture as well as many environments as you need for feature management.
Developers love it and clients too.
We don't even think about deployment, we just merge. There is a fluid simple git-based workflow, you can synchronize with your favorite git repository or use their repo and that's it.
Obviously, on top of this, the production environments are stable, robust, secure, and scalable. Their support team is awesome and really reactive and almost always available for you.
Technically, you still have SSH access, you get to use a CLI command that helps all your developers on day-to-day actions on your app, that's also very convenient.
The usage simplicity is THE best. That's so clear and super flexible, in 2 simple files you can get your complex architecture as well as many environments as you need for feature management.
Developers love it and clients too.
We don't even think about deployment, we just merge. There is a fluid simple git-based workflow, you can synchronize with your favorite git repository or use their repo and that's it.
Obviously, on top of this, the production environments are stable, robust, secure, and scalable. Their support team is awesome and really reactive and almost always available for you.
Technically, you still have SSH access, you get to use a CLI command that helps all your developers on day-to-day actions on your app, that's also very convenient.
What do you dislike about the product?
The difference between the Enterprise version and the Standard version was a bit confusing at first. And, yes sometimes builds are blocked but that does not affect production.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have more than 30 projects on Platform.sh spread on many clients. We recommend Platform.sh to all of them and we also use it for all our projects internally. Why? because it just works and provides this peace of mind for agencies like us: no deploy and at the same time an environment per branch on production-like clones!
That simplifies everything for us and for our clients. It reduces the feedback loop on new features and therefore improves decision making.
We even have clients working with us on the same code base, that was not possible before because of the complexity of managing QA, Tests, and those many environments. Now that's over.
That simplifies everything for us and for our clients. It reduces the feedback loop on new features and therefore improves decision making.
We even have clients working with us on the same code base, that was not possible before because of the complexity of managing QA, Tests, and those many environments. Now that's over.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's flexible, it's fast, it's secure, they have great support. If they propose all the software you need don't hesitate to try it. Once you'll have tried it, you'll be convinced.
Highly knowledgeable team, no unnecessary complexity, hosting without the anguish
What do you like best about the product?
* Platform.sh bakes in a "dev/staging/production" model to help you deliver well-tested code and content.
* Professional plans offer cloud reliability married to a simple persistent filesystem. Unlike Heroku, you're not forced into S3 or similar if it's overkill for your needs.
* If you know how to code it you know how to host it — you're not responsible for the care and feeding of operating systems and servers.
* MongoDB available as a standard option, as well as relational databases.
* Enterprise plans also available, which is good insurance if you find yourself going in a more "webscale" direction.
* Good developers rely on git; Platform's deployment via git is a natural fit.
* Smart team that responds quickly to questions.
* Professional plans offer cloud reliability married to a simple persistent filesystem. Unlike Heroku, you're not forced into S3 or similar if it's overkill for your needs.
* If you know how to code it you know how to host it — you're not responsible for the care and feeding of operating systems and servers.
* MongoDB available as a standard option, as well as relational databases.
* Enterprise plans also available, which is good insurance if you find yourself going in a more "webscale" direction.
* Good developers rely on git; Platform's deployment via git is a natural fit.
* Smart team that responds quickly to questions.
What do you dislike about the product?
Platform's pricing is very reasonable for what they provide, but on the very low end you might have a budget more in line with running a single instance, with no separate dev/staging/prod environments. Just remember that you get the reliability you pay for.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I'm exploring Platform.sh for web application hosting. Although I have expertise with web server administration, it's a great load off my shoulders to be able to focus on the code.
Helpful, powerful, useful.
What do you like best about the product?
Platform.sh's support staff were very helpful when I was setting up my initial project on their hosting. The fact that they run a wide variety of technologies seems promising for the future.
What do you dislike about the product?
Lack of a linked/dedicated local development environment.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Plaform.sh covers my current needs in web hosting. I am not a very sophisticated client, but they keep my infrastructure up and running reliably.
A great PaaS for deploy easily your project
What do you like best about the product?
Platform.sh permits you deploy your project easily! It's just some clicks and containers are up and running. Very useful for who need start a small project very fastly. Git integrates is fantastic too! You can branch, merge and/or sync directly on platform.sh console or terminal. Very useful for update your project without need to copy files, deploy manually on application or opening a ticket to support/infrastructure team.
What do you dislike about the product?
Platform.sh maybe need you change your mindset. As a PaaS provider, you won't have root acess to container. You need to worry just to mount your infrastructure correctly using Infrastructure-as-a-Code files and tools. In my case, I was frustated for some weeks because I did want implement some softwares that are not natively integrated with platform.sh.
Another problem using platform.sh is when your deploy freeze and you simply can't reset your environment to restore infrastructure. For this problem you need open a ticket for support team, wait for platform.sh SLA for have your envinronment restored and operational for you. In some cases supports can delay like 10h-12h. In my company, I delayed one sprint's delivery because the environment stucked and supports delayed like 10h.
Another problem using platform.sh is when your deploy freeze and you simply can't reset your environment to restore infrastructure. For this problem you need open a ticket for support team, wait for platform.sh SLA for have your envinronment restored and operational for you. In some cases supports can delay like 10h-12h. In my company, I delayed one sprint's delivery because the environment stucked and supports delayed like 10h.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's awesome to have a development environment without a DevOps Engineer or a Infrastructure Analyst. The Developers can easily construct your containers without too much knowledge in infrastructure. Just need create a code to create containers of applications and services and branch your master to others to start develop features of your app.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you are looking for a easy and fast to use PaaS at web, use Platform.sh surely. If you are a DevOps Engineer, maybe you can try a IaaS Provider to deploy your envinroment in your way.
Best thing happened to us!
What do you like best about the product?
It simply makes the hassle of DevOps and System Administration goes away.
What do you dislike about the product?
all seems to have been working for us pretty well
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have saved a huge amount of time on administrating our Servers and DevOps Process compare to before.
Loved the configuration part
What do you like best about the product?
I really love the configuring part with yaml files
What do you dislike about the product?
Since it is not open-source, I just dislike in this one thing.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I work with Magento projects so they are part of platform.sh I create my own architecture in platform.sh
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