A seamless HDS migration from bare-metal to a sovereign PaaS
Discover the testimonial of Eddy Montus, Co-Founder of Madietenligne
A fully in-house healthcare platform
Created during the pandemic, Madietenligne built and operated its entire platform internally from day one. This includes:
- video consultations,
- document sharing,
- patient record management,
- automated SMS and email reminders.
The architecture ran on self-managed bare-metal servers. As the platform grew, now used by more than 2,500 dietitians, maintaining the infrastructure became increasingly demanding: zero-downtime deployments, server configuration, monitoring, version upgrades and data reversibility. Madietenligne needed to preserve its HDS compliance while reducing operational effort.
Compliance and simplification at the core
To support its growth, the platform needed to:
- maintain strict HDS-compliant hosting,
- ensure encryption at rest for database and file storage,
- guarantee 24/7 service continuity despite constant reminders being sent,
- reduce operational workload,
- rely on a sovereign infrastructure located in France.
Why Madietenligne chose Clever Cloud
In late 2023, Eddy Montus benchmarked several PaaS providers. The decision criteria were clear: performance, HDS, and French sovereignty. Clever Cloud met all three requirements, with a clear and transparent HDS contract.
The choice was simple: it had to be performant, HDS and French. So we went with Clever Cloud.
Eddy Montus
Co-Founder of Madietenligne
Customer support also played a key role. Many technical questions emerged during the migration, all addressed promptly at the start of each day.
A fast migration with no noticeable downtime
The full migration, both test and production environments, took less than two weeks. It involved:
- transferring and synchronising 500 GB of documents,
- converting files previously stored on Azure,
- deploying PHP and Node applications via GitHub,
- managing CRON jobs and monitoring on the PaaS.
The DNS switch was the only potential interruption. For end-users, the transition was seamless.
We migrated all test and production environments in under 15 days. Each time, support replied within the day.
Eddy Montus
Co-Founder of Madietenligne
Immediate benefits and full HDS continuity
By migrating to Clever Cloud, Madietenligne maintained its HDS compliance while significantly reducing its operational workload.
Key outcomes include:
- full continuity of HDS compliance, with encryption at rest enabled at database creation;
- simplified operations: no more NGINX configuration or fragile scripts;
- reliable, zero-downtime deployments, thanks to automatic swap and validation;
- responsive support, especially during migration;
- future-ready infrastructure, with autoscaling available if needed.
All I had to do was encrypt the files on the storage space. And that’s it — we’re HDS, which feels almost magical.
Eddy Montus
Co-Founder of Madietenligne
A sovereign and sustainable infrastructure to support future growth
With a sovereign, automated and easier-to-maintain HDS environment, Madietenligne can now focus on improving its product. The platform continues to grow in France and abroad, while maintaining a high level of security and regulatory compliance for health data.