More and more companies and institutions are opting for fully flexible hosting with our platform-as-a-service (PaaS), Jelastic Cloud. It allows you to choose your technologies in a few clicks with a custom architecture and fully scalable resources.
A crucial overhaul for WWF Belgium’s activities
The WWF website regularly has to respond to massive peaks in traffic during environmental news or disasters. For example, the terrible fires in Australia in 2020 alone generated 80% of the annual traffic. The WWF website must be available at all times to provide information and collect donations for concrete action on the ground.
The site had previously been built using the Silverstripe CMS, whose technology is now obsolete: it could no longer be modified, nor could it evolve. For activities to continue, the website had to be overhauled.
A bespoke project developed by Walking Men in Brussels
Brussels agency Walking Men was chosen to oversee the WWF project from start to finish and to provide the hosting.
From Silverstripe to Drupal 9
The Walking Men team recommended switching to a new CMS, Drupal 9, which is also used by WWF Switzerland. This CMS allows customised interactions with external tools such as CRM and donation management platforms.
In addition to language management, this technology is also ideal for managing numerous content types with dedicated templates and fairly detailed taxonomies. It also ensures a user-friendly content management experience.
Jelastic Cloud: for flexibility and efficiency
For Walking Men’s CTO, Nicolas Glinoer, Jelastic Cloud is more advantageous and flexible than other PaaS.
“The management interface is wonderful and allows you to juggle with all the technologies. With Jelastic Cloud, we were able to build a robust and redundant infrastructure without having to get into the nitty-gritty of the network architecture. This allowed us to focus on our core business in order to bring our full added value to WWF.”
Jelastic Cloud met all the requirements for the WWF Belgium project:
Automatic scalability to respond to peaks
The new site maintains responsiveness, regardless of the number of visitors. Jelastic Cloud automatically deploys a large number of micro instances under load. These additional instances ensure high availability of services. WWF Belgium can now launch its fundraising campaigns in support of the latest disaster in the knowledge that everything will run smoothly.
Cost control with a transparent pay-per-use tariff
There’s no need to opt for very greedy hosting with the risk of not using it to its full potential. Even if the website has to mobilise major resources at certain times, WWF Belgium pays only for those it actually uses. Jelastic Cloud’s pricing is clear and transparent.
Ability to set up an architecture quickly and easily
Jelastic Cloud allowed the development team to deploy, in a few clicks, all the infrastructure needed for the project, such as load balancers, database servers, application servers, caching, backup, etc. This architecture can evolve as often as needed, and there’s no need for a system administrator. Everything is deployed automatically, in a few clicks, via the Jelastic Cloud admin console.
Ability to create on-demand environments
The development team can manage temporary evolutions on the WWF Belgium website or different versions by creating staging environments in a few minutes. Jelastic Cloud is ideal for deploying development, production and test environments, etc. As for the rest, everything is done very easily using the intuitive Jelastic Cloud console.
Why Infomaniak?
The previous host was taken over by a larger one and no longer met the WWF’s ecological criteria. For this complete overhaul, WWF Belgium was looking for a host capable of meeting the technical needs of the project, but also its environmental requirements in a bid to minimise its digital footprint. Criteria such as data centre cooling, energy sources and the power usage effectiveness (PUE) were just as much an issue as the performance and cost of the hosting solution.
“The fact that Infomaniak offers a wide range of solutions that correspond to needs that we are constantly encountering (dedicated managed cloud servers, Jelastic Cloud, very high availability hosting, etc.) allows us to envisage a long-term collaboration. The responsiveness of the hosting company and the experience of the support department are also essential criteria from our point of view.” Nicolas Glinoer, Walking Men CTO
For WWF Belgium, Infomaniak’s ecological approach was a key criterion. Jessica Nibelle, WWF spokesperson:
“Infomaniak’s overall commitment, its excellent PUE figures and its ISO 50001 and 14001 certifications relating to energy and environmental management spoke in its favour, as did the fact that it operates its own data centres. We also liked Infomaniak’s transparency concerning its environmental commitments, as this information is not always easy to obtain.”
Jelastic Cloud: an easy and attractive alternative to AWS or Google Cloud
If you need to deploy a complex architecture
Jelastic Cloud gives SMEs and start-ups easy access to all technologies within their budget. Infomaniak’s PaaS solution is extremely intuitive and frees developers from tasks related to the administration of servers and network architecture.
Fewer and fewer companies, NGOs and institutions are able to spend time and energy deploying and administering a hosting architecture. The realisation of projects must become a top priority again. Jelastic Cloud therefore enables significant cost savings and faster project delivery.
If your site’s subject to traffic fluctuations
Jelastic Cloud is particularly powerful for businesses exposed to high seasonality such as e-commerce, education and events. This solution allows you to ensure the continuous availability of your services by dynamically resizing the resources of your infrastructure according to circumstances. And you only pay for the resources you actually use.
A recognised PaaS that’s constantly evolving
Jelastic Cloud offers high-end services in a package that’s easier to use, more flexible and less expensive than the solutions of the Web giants. Exclusively hosted in Switzerland in our environmentally friendly data centres, this solution ensures the sovereignty of your data and integrates perfectly with Swiss Backup, which automatically backs up your environments to three different media in two data centres.
Find out more
Don’t miss all new Infomaniak features
We also suggest...
Partner programme (B2B): become a reseller of Infomaniak services to develop your business
Friday March 25th, 2022
Case study: Axium IT creating a new IaaS offering to migrate customers to Infomaniak’s Public Cloud
Friday February 4th, 2022
Octree is accelerating the adoption of digital participatory democracy with the Infomaniak Public Cloud
Friday November 19th, 2021
Case study: Deeplink is migrating its AI platform from AWS to the Infomaniak Public Cloud
Friday October 1st, 2021
Public Cloud: Infomaniak is launching a sovereign alternative to the GAFAM group at very aggressive rates
Tuesday September 28th, 2021
Events streaming: Théâtre Confiture becomes an innovation laboratory for Infomaniak Tickets
Thursday July 8th, 2021
Webmail that’s 100% independent: Infomaniak offers a unique alternative to GAFAM
Thursday May 20th, 2021
kMeet: the local alternative to Microsoft Teams and Zoom becomes more powerful
Tuesday May 11th, 2021
Datacenter security: how does Infomaniak protect itself against the worst-case scenarios?
Thursday March 18th, 2021
Control over data: data centres are the cornerstones of Infomaniak’s independence
Friday March 5th, 2021
Infomaniak × École 42 Lausanne: free local developer training for world-class skills
Friday January 22nd, 2021
Roadmap 2021: Infomaniak accelerates the development of its independent technology
Tuesday December 8th, 2020
Engineers, whistleblowers, ethical hackers… this is how Infomaniak protects your URL data
Monday November 9th, 2020
Encrypted email address: Infomaniak supports HIN for professionals dealing with health-related issues
Monday September 7th, 2020
kMeet, which is still free of charge, gets a makeover and now features moderation and recording
Monday September 7th, 2020
Swiss Made Software: building the technological alternative in the heart of Europe
Wednesday August 26th, 2020
One single password to manage everything: Infomaniak’s continuing its simplification process
Friday August 14th, 2020
Infomaniak 2020 Roadmap: a genuine alternative to the Big Five tech companies
Friday February 21st, 2020
9 reasons to choose Infomaniak to store your data and ensure data confidentiality
Monday February 3rd, 2020
Introducing kDrive: Switzerland’s first collaborative storage solution for SMEs and individuals
Friday December 20th, 2019
Black Friday: Infomaniak is clear – the planet is not something to haggle over
Friday November 29th, 2019
Infomaniak makes life easier for domain name owners and purchasers through bulk transfer
Monday September 23rd, 2019
Application hosting: an on-demand infrastructure to host a public service (case study)
Wednesday September 4th, 2019
How to create a Google Analytics goal for monitoring subscriptions to a newsletter
Friday August 16th, 2019
Web hosting with DIVI: free access to all WordPress themes by Elegant Themes
Thursday June 27th, 2019
Jelastic Cloud: the easy alternative to Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform
Wednesday May 15th, 2019
Infomaniak makes your sites even more secure with Patchman Security Scanner
Friday February 22nd, 2019
Infomaniak launches Swiss Transfer, the Swiss high-capacity alternative to WeTransfer
Friday February 15th, 2019
Speed up the page load time of your website anywhere in the world with Fast Anycast DNS
Friday February 1st, 2019
Guest Manager: the one-stop event organisation solution is now more powerful than ever before
Friday January 18th, 2019
Swiss Backup, the Swiss backup solution for Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android
Thursday November 29th, 2018
Infomaniak Sync: the Android app to sync your WorkSpace calendars and contacts
Friday November 9th, 2018
DebConf18 in Taiwan: Infomaniak contributes to Open Source at the highest level
Tuesday October 16th, 2018
WorkSpace 3: the new generation of Swiss Webmail is evolving with its users
Friday September 14th, 2018
Infomaniak launches Jelastic Cloud: the Swiss PaaS platform for developers and businesses
Tuesday September 4th, 2018
ISO 27001: Infomaniak stands out for its optimal management of information security
Friday August 3rd, 2018
Invitation management service: Infomaniak launches a tool for organising your events
Friday July 27th, 2018
Create an on-line store: e-commerce sites are becoming increasingly popular
Wednesday March 21st, 2018
How to create a VPN in Switzerland with a Synology NAS, hosted with Infomaniak
Thursday March 15th, 2018
Infomaniak integrates the European General Data Protection Regulation – GDPR
Tuesday February 6th, 2018
Is your WordPress site not yet in https format? Here is how to enable it
Wednesday November 15th, 2017
5 concrete, simple recommendations for increasing your open rate – Email Marketing
Friday April 28th, 2017
Starting 4 April, your admin console interface is going to be gradually evolving
Thursday March 30th, 2017
Transfer a domain without interrupting the operation of your emails and Internet sites
Monday March 20th, 2017
The Rolex Grand Slam organiser sends its newsletters with Infomaniak: Interview
Thursday November 24th, 2016
A specialized partner of Solar Impulse, Infomaniak is actively involved in the adventure
Tuesday June 16th, 2015
Sync your contacts and calendars (even more easily) with the Infomaniak WorkSpace
Tuesday May 5th, 2015
Install Joomla, ownCloud, phpBB, and more… in just a few clicks with Infomaniak hostings
Friday January 23rd, 2015
Rencontres du Management Durable (Sustainable Management Meetings) at the CCIG
Friday June 20th, 2014
The new “Mon Site Facile” tool: easy web site creation in just a few clicks of the mouse
Friday February 28th, 2014