Case Study: Thinkbean achieves faster development and lower costs with Platform.sh

Thinkbean - Customer Case Study

Thinkbean, a Boston-area Drupal-focused web development agency, faced constraints from their previous hosting provider that limited workflow consistency, slowed feature delivery, and raised client costs. Seeking flexible pricing, modern features (CI, VCS, multiple environments), unlimited GitHub integration, APIs, automation, and strong support for Symfony/NodeJS, Thinkbean evaluated alternatives and chose Platform.sh to deliver the infrastructure and tooling they needed.

Platform.sh provided a hosted platform with deep GitHub webhook integration, multi-environment provisioning, CI/VCS, project/environment APIs, CLI libraries, and dedicated Slack-based support; Thinkbean automated health checks, backups, SSL renewals, and deployments, and spun up prototype branches in minutes. As a result, support resolution times fell from days to minutes, DevOps efficiency and stability improved, teams could create unlimited QA/prototype environments, and Thinkbean offered lower-cost packages (matching Platform.sh would have cost ~300% more with their prior vendor), yielding faster development, quicker approvals, and happier clients.

Thinkbean

Glenn Hodgkinson

Co-founder