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Clever Cloud
Company blog · clever-cloud.com/blog · on HN as waxzceprogrammingsystems
Clever Cloud is the company blog at clever-cloud.com, writing about programming and systems. Since 2012, 38 different Hacker News readers have linked it 65 times, most often “Biscuit, Better Than JWT”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (19) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters mostly recommend Clever Cloud as a hosting service. Its engineering blog's Biscuit and Datalog explainers are praised as clear overviews for newcomers to authorization.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 19 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Clever Cloud provides you with the best tools to host, deploy and maintain your applications in operational conditions, at a controlled cost.
Most-linked posts?
- /5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2016-12-03
- Biscuit, Better Than JWT4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-04-12
- Smalltalk in 2015, heading for the cloud3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-01-07
- Auto increment is a terrible idea3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-11-30
- Clever Cloud (french-based PaaS with auto-scaling)2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2012-10-17
- Use Datalog to write your authorization rules2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-04-15
- In Defense of Optimization Work2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-12-03
- Code Running on Ionized Particles, or WTF Is Serverless2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-07-04
- /en/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-03-18
- Let your logs help you2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-05-24
What Hacker News says?
I wasn't aware of Gigalixir, thanks for mentioning that. Looks very promising. I've been hosting my site at https://clever-cloud.com with good results. I've been using Docker there but they just added beta Phoenix support which makes it really easy. They're French, and I'm in the US. So there have been time zone issues and support has been a bit lackluster at times, but generally they've fixed all the issues I've br…
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on “Elixir 1.5 released”Submitted Auto increment is a terrible idea as a story · 55 points
HN discussionVery simple: you need to get higher level of service, instead of paying for servers you need to pay for up-time. It's what PaaS, managed service or serverless does : manage server for you, at scale. To have something online you need: - servers - VM/OS management - Scalability system - monitoring (hardware, OS, applicative & functional) - action on monitoring and escalation management - update every weeks - observabi…
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on “Ask HN: How do you make sure your servers are up as a single founder?”Submitted Clever Cloud, a European Platform as a Service as a story · 44 points
HN discussionWe are really recommending https://www.clever-cloud.com/ . Their stack is awesome, great uptime and great support.
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on “Ask HN: So you moved off Heroku, where did you go?”Submitted Docker Support Done Right as a story · 27 points
HN discussionWorking link : https://www.clever-cloud.com/blog/engineering/2015/05/20/why...
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on “Post-Mortem and Security Advisory: Data Exposure After travis-ci.com Outage”Submitted Smalltalk in 2015, heading for the cloud as a story · 18 points
HN discussionReminds me of this: "Why Auto Increment Is A Terrible Idea" (2015) https://www.clever-cloud.com/blog/engineering/2015/05/20/why... (update: link fixed).
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on “Post-Mortem and Security Advisory: Data Exposure After travis-ci.com Outage”Submitted Black Friday 2014 for Clever Cloud PaaS Service :-) as a story · 15 points
HN discussionFor EU-based PaaS, check out Clever Cloud. They are based in Nantes, France and have servers in France (Paris, Roubaix) and Poland (Warsaw), and other locations outside the EU. I host my Node.js apps & databases (PostgreSQL, Redis) there and their GitOps is smooth. https://www.clever-cloud.com/
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on “I Miss Heroku's DevEx”Submitted Clever Cloud PaaS new pricings : cheaper and more finesse in your app config. as a story · 14 points
HN discussionA couple of French-based options that I've been using as replacements: - https://www.clever-cloud.com - https://scalingo.com - https://www.qovery.com
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on “Why companies move off Heroku (besides the cost)”Submitted European-based GPU service starting at 40cents per hour as a story · 13 points
HN discussionHi, I'm the CEO of http://www.clever-cloud.com/ and I'll be happy to help you on this, ping me on twitter : @waxzce
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on “Tell HN: Server Status”Submitted Code Running on Ionized Particles, or WTF Is Serverless as a story · 12 points
HN discussionI would recommend http://clever-cloud.com/ I use it for Node deployment, but they also host ruby, php, go and java apps.
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on “Goodbye Heroku”Submitted Why auto-increment is a terrible idea as a story · 12 points
HN discussionI'd definitely recommend http://clever-cloud.com/ It scales automaticaly, analyzing the resource you need on your server, and you only pay what you use, like electricity. It supports actually PHP, Scala, Ruby, Java, Node JS, and it's still upgrading. Also they have deployed PostgreSQL, MySQL, CouchBase and they are working on MongoDB integration, and ElasticSearch as well. This company is pretty young, so they have…
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on “Ask HN: Best alternative to Heroku?”Submitted Why we are betting on Rust for the future as a story · 11 points
HN discussionNote: the project was started during the first lockdown by the staff of Clever Cloud [1], a French PaaS based in Nantes. [1] https://clever-cloud.com
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on “MakAir: Covid-19 ventilator with a Raspberry Pi”Submitted European PaaS Clever Cloud Dashboard Update 3.1 as a story · 11 points
HN discussionYou may want to check out the following offerings: - https://appsdeck.eu/ - http://www.clever-cloud.com/
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on “Codename: BlueMix – IBM's New PaaS Offering”Submitted Introducing Clever Cloud Metrics, real time app monitoring as a story · 10 points
HN discussionClever Cloud[0] is a PaaS, has an API, UI and CLI as well. While it's not open source, we do however open a lot of things on our Github[1]. [0]: https://www.clever-cloud.com/en/ [1]: https://github.com/CleverCloud/
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on “Qovery Engine – open-source multi-cloud deployment”Submitted Async, Futures, AMQP, pick three as a story · 10 points
HN discussionthere is http://www.clever-cloud.com/ and the http://nodejs-cloud.com/ services :-) no PRISM issue on it & auto scaling
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on “Ask HN: Where do you host your NodeJS applications?”Submitted Nom, the fast Rust parser combinators library, just reached 1.0 as a story · 10 points
HN discussionCheck out this French company https://www.clever-cloud.com/en/ They have support for Erlang although I don't see it advertised there anymore.
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on “Ask HN: Is deploying Erlang web applications to a public PaaS viable?”Submitted Why free tier is a very very bad idea for PaaS market as a story · 10 points
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