Quickly build and host more ecommerce sites and apps with less

Your clients engage your agency’s expertise to create and launch fresh ecommerce experiences. But managing heavy, complex ecommerce platforms can co-opt your development team’s time and impact their agility. The mass of moving parts—including extensions, third-party apps, and technologies, integrated in different languages. Configuring servers. Diagnosing security issues. Managing setup. All before developers can even get to their code.

Relying on a managed hosting provider adds layer upon layer of inefficiency—from cumbersome manual processes like submitting requests and waiting to scale up (or down) to time-consuming deployments. Even in the public cloud, managed hosting reduces flexibility, increases risk of data loss, and can come with a hefty price tag.

So, how can you cut this DevOps fat and get back to the business of website and application development?

Free your dev team to work on more projects, generate more revenue

Platform.sh eliminates tedious, routine infrastructure maintenance tasks that can’t be billed back to clients. Instead, you can free your dev team to focus on building and delivering innovative solutions faster—and taking on more billable projects.

Speed

• Fully automated DevOps. Eliminate low-value repetitive tasks—like updating security patches or configuring infrastructure—so developers can spend more time on code.
• Instant clones of your production environment in seconds. Perfect clones of production—including all code, files, critical data, and services—enable your team to quickly build, experiment, and iterate on new features/designs: every idea can be fully tested, finalized, and merged confidently into production.
• A single standardized platform and integrated tooling. With consistent workflows and processes, save time and keep costs in check for all website and application development—regardless of tech stack.
• Integrated application-performance monitoring and profiling. Identify issues and bottlenecks before they reach production; rapidly implement recommended changes with quantifiable benefits that include faster websites and applications.
• Frictionless approvals. Create on-demand preview environments in seconds to improve in-agency and client collaboration, secure approvals, and complete projects faster.

Reliability

• High-levels of built-in security and compliance (e.g., SOC-2, PCI-DSS, HIPAA). Fully automated and managed through the principles of our shared-responsibility model, instill client confidence and give your team more time to focus on code.
• Global support. An up-to 99.99% SLA and a 24x7, globally distributed, enterprise support team, let you and your clients sleep better. Every night.
• Scalability. With one-click scaling and automated resource allocation, easily scale your infrastructure to meet increasing end-customer demand.
• Automated backups. Simplify the process of securing your environments and backing up your websites and applications.

Flexibility

• Power of choice. Enable your team to choose from the most up-to-date array of languages, frameworks, runtimes, services, tech stacks, and clouds to find the perfect fit for every client project.
• Confident, anytime deployments. Exercise the freedom to deploy whenever business requirements demand—even on the blackest of Fridays.
• Location and data sovereignty. Choose the IaaS platform—either by geography (to improve performance and user experience) or cloud provider—that best supports your clients requirements. Whether that’s Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Orange, or OVHcloud (where you can select a sovereign region).

Sustainability

• Lower emissions. With multicloud options, your team can take a location-based approach to deployment—redirecting it from a high-carbon grid to a low-carbon grid, reducing your CO₂eq emissions by up to 15x.*
• Greener regions. The Platform.sh open Regions API exposes the underlying infrastructure provider, data center location, and carbon intensity in CO₂eq/kW for each project your team creates—giving them the option to select the greenest possible region for new project deployment.
• Reflecting customer values. Today, clients, their end customers, and your staff want to do business with organizations that have a positive impact. That’s why Platform.sh became a Certified B Corporation™ (B Corp™)—meeting B Lab™’s high standards of social and environmental impact, accountability, and transparency. We hope our commitment will help you attract more clients who share our collective values.

Agency Partner Program: quantifiable value for you and your clients

The Platform.sh Agency Partner Program supports agency growth at your pace. Transparent pricing—predictable costs, without add-ons, without charges for pageviews or unique visitors—means you won't have any unexpected costs or charges when your projects and agency grow. From commissions and discounts to training and co-branded marketing materials—the Partner Program offers a diverse portfolio of benefits to help strengthen your bottom line, build expertise, and make clients stick.

• A new revenue stream
  Recurring commissions from client projects—for Silver partners and above
• Go-to-market support
  Collaboration on joint proposals and RFPs, with timely support throughout the sales cycle
• Exclusive pricing
  A direct discount that can increase as you progress through the program
• Free agency website hosting
  A no-charge Platform.sh subscription for your agency’s site
• Complimentary user licenses/dev plans
  Unlimited access for Silver partners and above
• No-charge technical training
  Platform.sh developer certification and features training
• Exclusive marketing tools, resources
  A library of co-branded materials, opportunities for co-marketing, and market development funds
• Agency listing
  The Platform.sh Partner Locator to lead prospective clients to your team

* Electricity Maps. Climate Impact by Area. Accessed April 2023.