Case Study: Comic Relief achieves 40% savings on Drupal projects and rapid feature deployments with Platform.sh

Comic Relief brings laughter and hope to the world—at scale

Comic Relief, the charity behind Red Nose Day, needed to speed development of campaign sites and donor experiences during a migration to Drupal 8. Before working with Platform.sh, Comic Relief’s team relied on a WebOps bottleneck to spin up QA environments (taking days), which slowed feature review, testing and releases across multiple concurrent development branches.

Platform.sh provided automated, GitHub-integrated preview environments and deployment tooling so every feature branch gets its own environment (often up to 20 concurrently), with previews ready in ~10 minutes on first commit and ~5 minutes thereafter. Using Platform.sh’s pipeline enabled multiple daily merges and sub‑hour production deployments, freed 85% of DevOps/QA capacity for other work, eliminated a dedicated WebOps role, lowered hosting costs, and delivered an estimated 40% savings on Comic Relief’s Drupal projects.

Comic Relief

Peter Vanhee

Engineering Practice Lead