Why did Sloop choose cluster hosting?

Published on October 10, 2022 by Laure - Updated on 14 mai 2024 à 14H04

Clustered hosting is an architecture widely used by web agencies. A cluster of servers enables them to benefit from a highly available, high-performance infrastructure, as well as easier maintenance, all of which reinforces the security of their applications. Germain Lecourtois, Technical Director of the Sloop agency, explains the 3 main reasons why he chose cluster hosting for his client BNP Paribas.

1. Guaranteeing our customers an available, high-performance infrastructure

Our agency's customers have websites with high visitor traffic, applications with services based on different technologies and/or frequently updated applications, requiring a powerful infrastructure. To ensure high availability of their websites and enhanced performance of their applications, the Sloop agency offers them hosting in a cluster.

For our customer BNP Paribas, hosting was originally carried out on monolithic machines for the 4 sites for which we were responsible: My campus, the website dedicated to the training of their employees, B-school, the website of BNP's apprentice training center, and the Big change site, which offers a tool designed to support change within the company. As their various websites were experiencing a number of slowdowns, we opted for cluster hosting to provide them with a scalable and highly available scalable and highly available platform.


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Now with cluster hosting, architecture components are redundantThis eliminates single points of failure (SPOF). In the event of failure of one of the servers, tasks are distributed to one or more other servers in order to enable load balancing and fault tolerance (failover).
Today, this new architecture meets their performance and availability requirements and secure their applications.

2. Working with technical and business experts in cluster hosting subjects


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We've been working with the NFrance teams for 4 years, and were introduced to them by one of our customers, IRP auto. We were definitively convinced by the quality of their services when we learned that the digital spaces of many Schools, hosted by NFrance, continued to operate despite the explosion in connections at the time of the lockdown.
What's more, after studying BNP Paribas' specifications and assessing the technical maturity of the applications produced by our agency, the technical experts proposed cluster hosting that met the functional requirements and standards of the BNP Paribas network. to meet the customer's functional requirements and hosting standards, while reinforcing the security of its applications..

The ability to offer a simple control interface interface for the cluster, so that we can autonomous to install new customerswas a real asset. The experts helped us to wire up our workflow for automated industrial deployments on the infrastructure, and to adapt its architecture to the needs of the application. We now have a solid, available and secure infrastructure with which our customer BNP Paribas no longer has any problems. In fact, for around a year now, the audits carried out by BNP Paribas have revealed no security flaws. These reports prove the quality of the cluster architecture. Our customer is very satisfied with the service, given the availability and performance of their web platforms.

3. Customized support you can trust

NFrance experts are always available to respond to any malfunctions. Smooth communications to ensure technical maintenance because they have a real technical knowledge technical knowledge of our software, our applications and our customers' needs.. At the slightest failure of one of our servers, our teams intervene and analyze the problem to provide a Reply adapted to the problem as quickly as possible. In this way, a website that has been the victim of a failure or attack remains accessible at all times.
The use of theticket assistance tool alongside instant messaging facilitates exchanges, whether for actions that need to be followed up over time, or for more occasional questions and interventions.
The addition of a metrology tool tool dedicated to the cluster also enables us to view live performance indicatorsor share with experts the analysis and evolution of the infrastructure in relation to its load.


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Like the Sloop agency, you want to take advantage of available, high-performance hosting that's 100% managed by our team?

Don't hesitate to contact an NFrance expert at 05 34 45 55 00.