Case Study: Slate.fr accelerates deployments and DevOps agility with Platform.sh

Slate.fr revived its DevOps approach with Platform.sh

Slate.fr, a French media and publishing site built on Drupal, needed a more agile hosting setup to handle breaking news, traffic spikes, and faster feature delivery. Its previous provider was not keeping up with technical demands, and Slate.fr wanted more test environments, real-time server scaling, and better value.

Slate.fr chose Platform.sh, then called Upsun, for its continuous deployment PaaS and DevOps-oriented platform. The migration took about three weeks, and the new setup increased development-to-production velocity by 30–40%, improved time to market, and let Platform.sh quickly add server resources during peak events such as elections.

Slate.fr

François Pottier

Technical Director