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I was able to migrate a complex site onto Pantheon, with a large database and many gigs of files with ease, by following through their migration guide and had very little problems. It also splits between Drupal 7, Drupal 8 and WordPress documentation on the same page without being too busy or crowded. They have clearly spent a long time making sure that everything is up to date, and have even added in hints and tips that have tripped up other people in the past.

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One good thing about Pantheon's container based setup is that you can set up a sandbox for your client and then when you are ready you can upgrade it to whatever plan you think is needed without having to migrate to a different environment. The team I work with on Pantheon has really taken to it and we are regularly setting up containers for testing purposes. The multidev environment is a really good feature and I have used it with a team for a few months now. Thins like New Relic support, or log forwarding just come as part of the platform.Īs Pantheon is container based it allows certain actions to be handled with great ease, the platform can be configured using a YML file, and it is able to scale up (and down) depending on your need.

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There are lots of things that you just get for free out of the box that I have seen other platforms charge quite a lot for. Pantheon is a great platform, with extensive documentation and well thought out processes. This is an example of a site I set up prior to go live (hence the small visitor counts). Multidev environments allow developers to spin off their own branch and host it entirely separately from the rest of the codebase. Pantheon's dashboard is clean and easy to navigate, I was able to find my around things without looking at the documentation once.Įvery account on Pantheon received a free developer sandbox. Not a massive drawback as you can do this through services like Google pretty easily, but something that you should be aware of. Pantheon has no support for native Drupal emails so you need to use a module to allow for Sendgrid or SMTP emails.For context, Solr Version 3 was 'end of life' in 2015. The Solr version being used by Pantheon is quite low (version 3), which is somehow even lower than the version available on Acquia.

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They do support artefact deployment though so you can set up Travis to send code to the platform.

Pantheon's deployment methods can be a little prescriptive in that you are forced to go from dev to stage to live with your code all of the time.

I guess that's only important if you absolutely require multisite, but there is a solution available.

Code uploaded to the template system can be merged upstream to other sites.

Pantheon doesn't fully support Drupal multisite, instead they work on a template system.

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There is an odd split between git and SFTP, which you are reminded of every time you update any code.

Relatively low cost, compared to other PaaS solutions.

Top notch documentation on all aspects of the platform, including code snippets to aid with some specialist problems.

Onboarding support so you can be shown the ropes as you and your team get to grips with a new environment.

24 x 7 on call support with worldwide support engineers for multi-region support.

Free HTTPS with certificates provided by Let's Encrypt.

This is a Varnish based CDN with proven Drupal support.

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Configuration of the site allows for the inclusion of password protection without the need to install the Shield module.

Log forwarding can be enabled for a variety of different platforms.

Solr search is built into the platform.

Multi-dev environment where development can be done independently without the need to set up multiple, separate, environments.

Dev, stage and live environments allowing for independent development and testing of code before being put live.

Container based infrastructure, which means it is highly resilient to traffic spikes as it can be set up to auto scale with the amount of traffic encountered.

99.9% uptime with SLA and penalties for non-compliance.

They started out as a specialist Drupal host, but now have support for WordPress hosting solutions. They now have a worldwide support staff and have data centres in a variety of different locations throughout the world. Pantheon provides a PaaS solution started in 2010 in the USA. I'm sure they will be happy to hear from you. You will know the requirements of your project and what you need to accomplish.Īlso, if you want to know more about a platform, then please contact them directly. Ultimately, your milage will vary and what you get out of these platforms will be different for most people. What I'm not doing is a massive deep dive on all platforms. Continuing my review of some Drupal PaaS hosting platforms I am taking a look at Pantheon.