In this context, the question is no longer whether to migrate, but how to structure what already exists, maintain control over day-to-day operations, and retain ownership of environments and data.

On Tuesday 28 April at 11:30 AM, Clever Cloud and Cycloid are hosting a webinar to address these challenges.

Two complementary perspectives on a shared challenge

We are offering a cross-functional discussion to provide concrete insight into these topics.

Cycloid covers the structuring and governance of environments through a unified internal developer platform and portal. Clever Cloud addresses managed operations, operational maintenance (MCO) and operational sovereignty.

Join Florent Perreux (Chief Sales Officer @ Clever Cloud), Steven Le Roux (CTO @ Clever Cloud), Alexandre Blin (Business Director SEMEA @ Cycloid) and Olivier de Turckheim (Solution Architect @ Cycloid) to understand how to align governance and operations without adding complexity.

Agenda

🔹 Why cloud modernisation goes beyond migration;plus à une migration;

🔹 Structuring and governance challenges in multi-cloud environments;

🔹 Operational challenges related to operations and maintenance;

🔹 How to align governance and operations without multiplying complexity;

🔹 A live Q&A session to ask your questions directly.

Why attend?

✅ Understand the root causes of complexity in cloud projects;

✅ Identify the levers to structure your usage and reduce vendor dependency;

✅ Gain a clearer understanding of operational and sovereignty challenges;

✅ Benefit from concrete real-world experience;

✅ Engage directly with experts.

Register now

🗓️ Tuesday 28 April 2026

⏰ 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM

💻 Online webinar on Livestorm

Facing these challenges? Join us on 28 April!

In a context where scalability, availability, and speed are essential, hosting becomes a key element. An optimized infrastructure like Clever Cloud enhances performance and secures both deployments and environment management.

What is Sylius?

The technical robustness of Sylius allows teams to quickly tailor the platform to your specific business needs while providing a stable and maintainable foundation that grows with your company.

Why Build a Sylius Project with Monsieur Biz?

Monsieur Biz is a specialized agency in Sylius since 2017. This early positioning allowed the agency to develop deep expertise in the framework and its ecosystem. As an official Sylius partner and active contributor, the agency has built numerous open-source plugins and developed custom solutions tailored to specific business needs.

This dual competency—community contribution and bespoke development—makes Monsieur Biz a trusted technical partner for Sylius projects.

Why Sylius is a Strategic Choice for Custom Projects

While platforms like Shopify may be suitable for simple, standard needs, they quickly become limiting (and expensive) when customization is required. Sylius, by contrast, offers a robust and modular technical foundation built on Symfony, allowing for a high degree of customization.

Sylius uses modern standards. All features are thoroughly tested, and the framework recently transitioned from PHP Spec to PHPUnit—more widely adopted within the PHP community—thus improving code quality and maintainability. If you’d like to learn more about Sylius, feel free to consult the available documentation.

A Team of Web & E-Commerce Quality Experts

All Monsieur Biz developers are Opquast-certified, a well-recognized standard in the web industry. This certification ensures strong mastery of essential e-commerce topics: performance, accessibility, security, user experience, and development best practices.

Monsieur Biz doesn’t just deliver technical features; they guide, advise, and structure complex e-commerce projects while contributing meaningful insights.

A Key Player in the Sylius Ecosystem

Monsieur Biz is deeply involved in the Sylius community. The agency regularly participates in technical conferences like Forum PHP, where it will speak in October 2025 about the release of Sylius 2.

They also take part in strategic roundtables organized by the Sylius team, enabling them to closely follow the framework’s roadmap and technical direction.

Hosting & Deployment on Clever Cloud: Performance at Scale

To support its Sylius projects, Monsieur Biz naturally turned to Clever Cloud. The agency was seeking a reliable and flexible PaaS hosting platform perfectly suited to developer workflows.

Clever Cloud meets these requirements by offering full control over infrastructure, advanced deployment automation, and high production stability—key assets for industrializing complex e-commerce platforms.

A Fully Controlled Environment

With Clever Cloud, you retain control over every component of the project:

• File systems
• Databases
• PHP applications
• Redis cache
• Keycloak authentication, and more

All environments are configurable entirely via command-line, simplifying the automation of deployments, removals, and infrastructure updates.

Proactive Technical Support and Expert Guidance

When needed, Clever Cloud provides ultra-responsive support with complete transparency. This close collaboration is especially valuable for high-stakes projects.

In critical situations, Clever Cloud can quickly mobilize a dedicated team of experts to analyze and resolve issues—whether infrastructure-related, application-specific, or security-related.

This level of commitment is rare among cloud providers and is widely recognized by Clever Cloud clients as a key differentiator.

Security, Data Sovereignty, and GDPR Compliance

Clever Cloud’s hosting can be localized in France if requested—a crucial advantage for Monsieur Biz clients operating primarily within the country. Beyond GDPR compliance, local hosting also benefits SEO: servers located near end users reduce page load times, a ranking factor considered by Google.

Clever Cloud also holds the necessary security certifications for managing sensitive data, including health data (HDS certification obtained in January 2025), ensuring full regulatory compliance.

Importantly, Clever Cloud is not subject to any extraterritorial legislation, such as the Cloud Act or FISA.

SEO Advantages

As mentioned, hosting in France improves loading times (a known Google ranking factor). But Clever Cloud goes further with technical SEO enhancements. Its high-performance infrastructure enables excellent Core Web Vitalsscores, particularly in server response time (TTFB) and layout stability (CLS).

Thanks to fine resource management, load times remain consistent even during traffic spikes. Continuous deployment also supports frequent optimizations (compression, caching, URL structure) without regression risk—key levers to improve organic visibility and deliver a top-tier user experience.

Accelerate Your E-Commerce Projects with Monsieur Biz, Sylius & Clever Cloud

Whether you’re launching an e-commerce website, a business platform, a showcase site, or any other headless architecture, the combination of Monsieur Biz, Sylius, and Clever Cloud is ideal for demanding web projects. This synergy tackles complex use cases while ensuring high performance, reliability, and control.

The high level of industrialization shortens go-to-market times and ensures long-term service quality. The customization of Sylius, the development rigor of Monsieur Biz, and the infrastructure reliability of Clever Cloud create an environment primed for continuous innovation—with no hidden costs or technical compromises.

This trio is ideal for companies seeking customization, performance, and expert guidance, no matter the complexity of their project.

FAQ

How much does it cost to develop a Sylius project?

The cost depends on the level of customization and features needed. Faster to develop than Magento, a project typically starts around €10,000. Pricing increases with project complexity.

How is Sylius different from Shopify and Magento?

• Shopify is a turnkey solution, quick to launch but limited in flexibility.
• Magento is powerful but expensive to build.
• Sylius offers the best of both: more open than Shopify, lighter than Magento, and fully suited to custom projects.

Is Sylius suitable for large-scale use?

Yes. Sylius is designed for scalability. Its modern architecture (Symfony) supports large catalogs and high traffic with the right infrastructure.

What resources are needed to maintain a Sylius site?

A Sylius site requires a technical team proficient in Symfony/PHP for development and maintenance. One or more developers are typically needed. Costs and workload depend on the complexity and evolution pace of your site.

For Madietenligne, a platform that supports over 2,500 dieticians in managing their business, ensuring compliance was becoming more and more complex... until they migrated to Clever Cloud's HDS-certified PaaS.

On Tuesday June 17, 2025 at 11:30 a.m., Madietenligne looks back at this strategic shift during an HDS-certified webinar.

Why an HDS compliance webinar?

As a certified healthcare data host for the 6 activities covered by the standard, Clever Cloud supports editors who want to focus on their core business, without sacrificing security or sovereignty.

In this webinar, we will discuss:

• A clear overview of HDS obligations and their practical impact on your solution;
• HDS compliance “fast-track”: benefit immediately from a certified, sovereign cloud, with no regulatory or administrative formalities to deal with;
• Behind the scenes of Madietenligne's < 3 week migration, and the gains observed (security, scalability, sovereignty);
• Any points you'd like to clarify, through a live Q&A session.

The program

Join Florent Perreux (Chief Sales Officer @ Clever Cloud) and Eddy Montus (Co-founder @ MaDietEnLigne) as they explore, step by step, the challenges and rewards of migrating to a sovereign, HDS-compliant cloud.

On the agenda:

🔹 The challenges of HDS compliance for companies processing healthcare data ;

🔹 The concrete benefits of an HDS-certified PaaS ;

🔹 The experience of a customer committed to security and sovereignty issues ;

🔹 A Q&A session to ask your questions.

Why participate?

🔖 Understand HDS obligations and how to meet them;

🎯 Discover a real-life case study from a committed SaaS healthcare publisher;

👑 Explore a sovereign, scalable and compliant cloud solution;

❓ Chat live with our speakers.

🗣️ "In less than three weeks, we migrated our dev and prod environments.  And most importantly, I'm more than satisfied with the service and excellent support!"— Eddy Montus, Co-founder @ Madietenligne

Register now

📅 Tuesday, June 17, 2025

⏰ 11:30 AM - 12h00 PM

💻 Livestorm online webinar

You code, we guarantee HDS compliance, combined with sovereign, scalable and automated hosting. Join us on June 17 to find out how! 🚀

The attacker is only one wrong click on a lovingly crafted PDF file away from your network.

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Assuming that servers will be safer if they are on your own network leads to a false sense of security.

Geoffroy Couprie is a consultant in software security and a independant developer. After testing Clever Cloud for a while, he challenged himself trying to run Smalltalk on our PaaS. Here's the recap of his findings.

The Smalltalk world offers a radically different way to create and run software, and I have always loved to tinker with it. Thanks to the recent work around Docker at Clever Cloud, it is now possible to run Pharo Smalltalk apps, even Seaside ones, on this PaaS.

Thinking in Smalltalk

One of the most interesting features of Smalltalk is the image, which is a file containing a list of serialized objects. When you start your virtual machine, you load the image. When you stop, you serialise everything: classes, methods, instances of classes, windows, even running web servers. And when you start, you get back your environment in the same state. Even writing code is different: you are not editing a file, you are editing the implementation of a method, serialised like everything else in the image. That way, you can modify code while it is running easily.

The traditional method for deploying a web server consists in preparing the image with the code, and uploading the whole image on the server. This is at odds with deployment process at Clever Cloud, based on a simple Git push. So it requires a few steps.

Docker

Thanks to the recent developments around Docker support, it is now possible to run any language or platform on these servers. So I prepared two images, one to install Pharo Smalltalk on an archlinux Docker container, and the other, based on the first, to install the Seaside web framework.

There is nothing tricky in the first image, except needing to install lib32-zlib, lib32-ncurses and lib32-bzip2 to run the 32 bits VM on a 64 bits CPU.

The second image runs a .st file to download Seaside, remove default Seaside apps and deactivate the debug bar:

Gofer new
url:'http://www.smalltalkhub.com/mc/Seaside/MetacelloConfigurations/main';
package: 'ConfigurationOfSeaside3';
load.
((Smalltalk at: #ConfigurationOfSeaside3) project version: #stable) load.

WAAdmin applicationDefaults removeParent: WADevelopmentConfiguration instance.
WADispatcher default handlers keys do:[:name | WAAdmin unregister:name].
Smalltalk snapshot: true andQuit: true.

Now, we have an image ready for deployment, and usable for all the future Seaside projects.

Preparing the code for deployment

We could save the image in a git repository, and push the whole file to Clever Cloud, but that would be too easy. What if we could send just the required code through git? Here comes FileTree, a library pre-installed in Pharo, that you can use to export code from the image and add it to a Git repository.

First, let's get some code to deploy. I will spare you the details, just get the WebCounter example from the Seaside book, it is doable under 10 minutes.

Done? Alright. Choose a folder that will contain the code you will push to the server, and git init in that folder. Now open the Monticello browser, add a new repository, select "filetree://" then choose your git folder.

Now select your WebCounter package in the Monticello browser, and save the code.

It should now appear in file form in the git folder:

$ tree .
.
└── WebCounter.package
    ├── WebCounter.class
    │   ├── README.md
    │   ├── instance
    │   │   ├── decrease.st
    │   │   ├── increase.st
    │   │   ├── initialize.st
    │   │   └── renderContentOn..st
    │   ├── methodProperties.json
    │   └── properties.json
    ├── monticello.meta
    │   ├── categories.st
    │   ├── initializers.st
    │   ├── package
    │   └── version
    └── properties.json

Loading the code

Now that we have an export of the Seaside component, we will create a Docker image to load the code. First, we need a small script to give the virtual machine at startup, to load the code and run it:

"this uses FileTree to load back the code from the /home/deploy folder"
(MCFileTreeRepository new directory: '/home/deploy' asFileReference) packageDescriptionsFromReadableFileNames  do:
  [:name || version |
  version := (MCFileTreeRepository new directory: '/home/deploy' asFileReference) versionFromFileNamed: name first, '.package'.
  [version load ]
        on: MCMergeOrLoadWarning
        do: [ :ex | [ ex load  ] on: MCNoChangesException do: [] ] ].

FileStream stdout nextPutAll: 'WebCounter installed'; lf.

"the Clever Cloud platform expects the app to listen on the 8080 port"
ZnZincServerAdaptor startOn: 8080.

"Register the code we just loaded on the /webcounter address"
WAAdmin register: WebCounter asApplicationAt: 'webcounter'.

Save that code as seaside.st, then we will create the Dockerfile to make it work on the server:

# -*- sh -*-
FROM geal/archlinux-seaside
MAINTAINER Geoffroy Couprie, contact@geoffroycouprie.com

ADD . /home/deploy

EXPOSE 8080

CMD ./pharo Pharo.image ./deploy/seaside.st

It reuses the archlinux-seaside image I prepared previously, copies the code from the repository in /home/deploy, then starts the image with the code loading script.

With this, you can build and run the image to test it:

$ docker build -t "geal/seaside-example" .
$ docker run -t -i -p 8080:8080 geal/seaside-example /bin/bash
[root@8e726df1bf4e home]# ./pharo Pharo.image ./deploy/seaside.st

UndefinedObject>>DoIt (WebCounter is Undeclared)
WebCounter installed

If you are on Linux, the website will be available on http://localhost:8080/webcounter. If you use OS X, run boot2docker ip, then access the server at http://<virtual machine IP>:8080/webcounter.

Creating the app on Clever Cloud and deploying

Go to https://console.clever-cloud.com, create a new application of type Docker, then get the git URL for your app, and do in your repository:

$ git remote add clever git+ssh://git@push.par.clever-cloud.com/<your app id>.git
$ git push clever master

And that's it! You can now access the Seaside component at http://<your_app_id>.cleverapps.io/webcounter.

At each new version of the code, export it to Git then push again, and the platform will redeploy everything automatically, rebuilding the Docker containers and the Pharo images. Now, you just need to add a few components to store state, like a database or S3 component, and you are good to go!

All the code is available on Github if you need to play with it:

• Archlinux Docker images
• WebCounter loaded with Docker, also contains an example for a web application using the Zinc server directly
• The example is currently running at http://pharo-seaside.cleverapps.io/webcounter

Webelis is a web agency company mainly focused on Open Source CMS, with strong Joomla! expertise. Founded in 2009, the company has realised 100+ customers Joomla based websites. As a Joomla expert, Philippe decided to test the very latest Joomla 3.0 beta on the Clever Cloud Platform, in order to benchmark its overall performance.

“The fact is, I have been positively surprised in two ways:

1. The Clever-Cloud setup/account creation process is very straight forward, without any hassle. I’ve been able to setup a full ready-to-go environment in less than 5 minutes. Deploying Joomla CMS is like a breeze, the FTP access and the database setup (pretty basic though) are standard compared to usual hosting providers (ftp/phpmyadmin), which is a good point.
2. It’s all about performance. Wow. The Joomla instance is fast as hell. The site runs smoothly and page loading is near instantly. Believe it or not, the hosted site is much faster than my own local install using EasyPhp (running on a 2,53 Ghz core 2 duo / 4GB).

This first “hello cloud” test seems more than promising. Next step consists in deploying an existing Joomla-based website of mine, running on a popular hosting provider, in order to compare performance. I’m very curious and excited to see how the platform reacts under a heavy load.

About prices

So far, though testing is completely free for the first steps, I intend to test the service in a deeper manner to see how much an average site can cost a month. This is where you may want to stay on a mutulalized hosting for small projects, and keep the Clever-Cloud high-end platform for projects that really need heavy load capabilities.”

Philippe Destré, CEO @Webelis

Thanks to Phillipe, we’ve noted the importance of giving a clear view on our pricing. That’s why we’ve published this week the Clever Cloud Pricing Sheet. Tell us what you think

Oh! You should also note that Ouest Numérique‘s website is also a Joomla! site running on Clever Cloud!