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News: New plans, lower prices make Platform.sh the go-to PaaS in Oceania

Announcement posted by Platform.sh 16 Nov 2018

Sydney November 16 2018 - Platform.sh, the Idea-to-Cloud Application Platform, is extending its investment in Australia and New Zealand with more competitive pricing and new services, making it even easier build and run high-volume web apps without DevOps investments. Beginning immediately, Platform.sh will reduce the price of its Professional hosting region in Australia by approximately 25%; this will apply to both new and current  customers.

New plan sizes—suitable for regional businesses, programs for government, not-for-profits, education, and freelancers, as well as new services to help businesses improve their development velocity and reduce costs—further expand the company’s investment in the region.

The company is also announcing a range of new measures, including:

  • New Partner Program for agencies, including direct access to pre-sales and bid management, and access to client productivity metrics data

  • Better offers and discounts for not-for-profits and education providers

  • A special offer for freelancers

  • Special services for government agencies

  • Consulting and advisory (Technical Account Management) for maximising project velocity

  • More support people in Asia-Pacific timezones

Managing Director of Platform.sh in Australia, Christopher Skene, is excited about the improvements. “Despite achieving some excellent results with our Enterprise service, our Professional region had some stability issues, so we worked hard with our clients to resolve those issues. We’ve spent a lot of time listening to their needs, and this has resulted in a really significant number of improvements to the product in Australia,” says Skene.

“We’re the only full-stack Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) on the Australian market with continuous deployment, one-click development environment cloning, and hosting all built-in,” Skene adds, “however, we knew we could do better in some areas. These measures help us towards that goal.”

Launched in Europe in 2013 and available in Australia since 2017, Platform.sh is a PaaS for web applications that enables businesses to achieve world-leading development speeds—without the requirement to skill or build a DevOps practice.

Offering a seamless developer workflow, high-availability Enterprise plans with 99.99% uptime SLAs, and no infrastructure maintenance tasks, Platform.sh is the market-leading PaaS for a wide range of web-facing applications, including Drupal, Wordpress, Magento, and many others.

Contact: Christopher Skene