How!?

In the console

With Clever-Tools

• Paris, France -> par
• Montréal, Canada -> mtl
• Singapore, Singapore -> sgp
• Roubaix, France -> rbx
• Warsaw, Poland -> wsw
• Sydney, Australia -> syd

One more Data Center on the way!

Good news everyone, a new Clever Cloud zone is opening in the USA! BSO Network is now a Clever Cloud on-premises customer. And has such allows us to become one of their resellers and bring you this new New-york based zone which will be available mid-march 2020.

If you are not familiar with Clever Cloud, we made a Platform as a Service available on public or private cloud and on-premises. You write code and we run it, no YAML involved, just a git push away from production. From there you get native support for most languages, Let's Encrypt integration, automatic scaling, monitoring, log collection, blue/green deployment, basically everything you need for production. And did I mention we are the one on call, not you :)

As it works on premises it can be installed anywhere. And this time it’s installed on BSO Network datacenter in new york.

Which Infrastructure does it use?

This infrastructure is within the Equinix NY4 Data Center, built with 2013 PCI-DSS and ISO 27001 certified. There are more than 500 customers doing business within this 103,630 square meters facility, which houses infrastructure for major financial exchanges.

The infrastructure is accessible through X POPS in North America, 10 DC in New Jersey and NYC area. The cloud Platform provides high availability with high-performance SLAs and is build for scale. BSO and Clever cloud also plan a West Region extension in order to add compute and geographic resiliency.

Cloud Act vs. GDPR

Our worldwide, global industry is more and more regulated and several countries came up with new laws. In our case, we need to talk about the American Cloud Act and the European GDPR. Clever Cloud being a European company, we are de facto GDPR compliant. And as the GDPR is a contaminative law we need to apply GDPR to all our customers, even non-European ones, which means we are de facto, not Cloud Act compliant

But fear not, Clever Cloud is first and foremost a Software Vendor and as such can be resold by a Cloud act compliant company like our partner BSO Network.

The way we've engineered this partnership will allow you to use Clever Cloud in the US without issues. Here's why. A communication or cloud provider may fall under the cloud act if:

• HQ of the company is in the US
• One of the branches is in the US
• A service offer is in the US for as long as the organization exists

As none of the above is true for our company, Clever Cloud won't fall under the Cloud Act law. BSO Network is operating the data center and rely on our software to manage the NYC zone with our on-premises platform. This way allows the US zone to have the full set of Clever Cloud functionalities, with multi-zones deployment made possible.

Customers using the NYC zone will be customers of BSO Network (buying them infrastructure and access cost to Clever Cloud Platform, the software) resell by Clever Cloud (here it’s more acting as a marketplace), and we will make Terms and Conditions changes in the next days to reflect that. From a practical standpoint, it will be transparent for our users. This also means that everything hosted on the NYC zone is compliant to the cloud act and not to the GDPR nor protected by the GDPR.

Can I use it?

If you are interested in the NY zone, please fill out the form below to get in touch! We will come back to you with the exact date and pricing for all our services.

To get your invite to the NYC zone, please fill this form:

Companies we are talking about

BSO is the award-winning Ethernet network, cloud and hosting provider of choice building superior infrastructure and connectivity to the world’s most dynamic marketplaces. With the recent acquisition of IX Reach, BSO increase his footprint and SDN Cloud to Cloud capabilities, becoming The world’s largest privately-owned telecom company by PoP count. Coupled with our Extensive expertise in Devops NetOPs, we provide our client on end to end service with SDN direct interconnection to all major cloud providers, remote peering at key Internet Exchanges, high-speed point-to-point/multipoint ethernet private line, metro DWDM, IP BGP transit and colocation.

Clever Cloud is a Europe-based PaaS company. They help developers deploy and run their apps with bulletproof infrastructure, automatic scaling, fair pricing, and other cool features. They aim to make an easy-to-use service, without any vendor lock-in and able to grow with your needs.

We are finally landing in America! As most of our customers are outside of Europe, our hosting service has made its way to a new continent. Same service, same price, same dashboard and now a regional choice on top.

Our team has been working on this development for a long time. We wanted to improve the user experience for American users, and we are very excited that everything is working out today, just as we wanted.

Why Canada?

We have selected a great partner, Netelligent, to ensure high quality and high availability of your applications. Users throughout Canada, US and Latin America will benefit from an enhanced connectivity and enjoy a better experience of PaaS with Clever Cloud.

Here at Clever Cloud, we care about your data privacy. Our European data-centers suit our security standards and that’s why we chose to partner up with Netelligent in Quebec, Canada.

Simple and Easy Migration

Migrating existing apps to a new location is quite simple. To switch from a location to another, you simply have to change the Zone field in the Information tab of your apps:

Once you're done, if you're using a .cleveraps.io domain name, everything is automatic, otherwise you will have to update your DNS settings to go directly to Montreal without going through Paris.

Note that this quick migration isn't currently supported for php applications, or for applications using File-System buckets.

Deploying on both continents

For reasons of clarity, we ask you to choose one zone per app. So you need to create two Clever Cloud applications.

Running the same code base on both regions is pretty straightforward:

• Create a second app in the new region via the dashboard
• Get the new git push URL and add it to your git config via the following command line:

# Assuming you added a "clever" remote as described in the documentation like this:
# git remote add clever git+ssh://git@push.par.clever-cloud.com/appid1.git

# Set your first specific push URL for Paris on the "clever" remote
$ git remote set-url --push clever git+ssh://git@push.par.clever-cloud.com/appid1.git

# Set your second specific  push URL for montreal on the "clever" remote
$ git remote set-url --add --push clever git+ssh://git@push.mtl.clever-cloud.com/appid2.git

Then your project config file located in .git/config should contain something like this:

[remote "clever"]
  url = git+ssh://git@push.par.clever-cloud.com/appid1.git
  pushUrl = git+ssh://git@push.par.clever-cloud.com/appid1.git
  pushUrl = git+ssh://git@push.mtl.clever-cloud.com/appid2.git

Note that, due to git internal behaviour, you explicitely need to re-add the first remote url (the Paris one) as a pushUrl too, otherwise it would only push to Montreal.

Now, one push will deploy your code both in Paris and Montreal.

Security and Patriot Act

We care about our customers privacy. We have selected this location because it is Patriot Act-free, and Canada has IP laws to protect your data. Privacy is a strong part of our core values at Clever Cloud.