Pantheon Review: Deploy Drupal and WordPress on Pantheon Hosting
August 8, 2022
This is an article about Pantheon Review : Deploy Drupal and WordPress on Pantheon Hosting. In this article I will invite you to take a walk into the infrastructure of Pantheon Hosting. I will show you how to build and run a website with Drupal and WordPress on the Pantheon hosting infrastructure.
But before that you certainly need to know in advance what is Pantheon Hosting?
What is a Pantheon Hosting ?
Products
Lightning-Fast Hosting Features
DRUPAL HOSTING
One-click core updates, no server management, and the highest performance possible.
WORDPRESS HOSTING
Pantheon is the fastest, most reliable high performance hosting solution for WordPress websites.
WOOCOMMERCE HOSTING
Boost sales with faster page loads and all the security and infrastructure you need to grow (or scale) your business.
Features
Whosting features as follows:
High-Performance Hosting
Build best-in-class Drupal and WordPress sites with scalable infrastructure and a lightning-fast content delivery network.
Automated Workflows
Empower your web team to develop, test, and launch new sites in real time with industry standard Git-based workflows.
Collaboration Workflow Features
VERSION CONTROL AND WORKFLOW
- Every site comes with identical Dev, Test, and Live environments.
FEATURE BRANCH WORKFLOW
- Easily create feature branches for your sites or fix and test patches in isolation with Multidev environments.
LOCAL DEVELOPMENT
- Work in a local Docker-based environment that mirrors your Pantheon websites.
Professional Developer Tools
Supercharge your WebOps team with high-performance tools that keep projects running on time.
Innovate Faster with Cutting-Edge
Developer Tools
- Pantheon’s out-of-the-box web management tools increase productivity and make developers happy by easily integrating their favorite apps and services into any web project.
Workflow Efficiency Features
VERSION CONTROL AND WORKFLOW
- Every site comes with identical Dev, Test, and Live environments.
COMMAND LINE INTEGRATION
- Access complete platform functionality from our integrated command line.
PLATFORM INTEGRATIONS
- Automate your team’s workflow and integrate Pantheon with your favorite apps and services.
Dependable Website Security
- Protect your Drupal and WordPress sites with secure infrastructure, carefully configured access to resources, and best practices around safeguarding data.
Innovate risk-free with security best practices
- Pantheon is trusted industry-wide for our leadership and knowledge in today’s ever-changing tech landscape.
Website Security Features
SECURITY PLATFORM
- Built-in hardened security features. Secure infrastructure, encrypted channels, and least-privileged user access.
DISASTER RECOVERY
- Maintain 99.99% uptime for your Drupal and WordPress sites, regardless of disaster.
SECURE INTEGRATION
- Safely share data behind a protected firewall while your website runs in the cloud. No more servers to configure.
SAML/SSO INTEGRATION
- Manage thousands of sites from one codebase to control universal standards while allowing individual sites freedom to customize.
Protect digital assets with round-the-clock website security
- Pantheon is the only hosting platform to include fully managed and free HTTPS certificates, automated backups, and one-click updates for all hosting plans.
Website Automation and Software Update
Features
MANAGED HTTPS
Keep your site and your visitors secure with HTTPS certificates. Certs are renewed and managed by them.
AUTOMATED BACKUPS
Nightly automated backups of your site’s database, files, and code plus single-click restoration if something goes wrong.
AUTOMATED UPDATES
Easy-to-apply updates with built-in testing environments ensure quick security fixes with confidence.
Pricing
Basic
- $41/mo*
- or get Pantheon Preferred $29/mo*
- 25K Monthly Visits
- 125K Pages Served
- 20GB SSD Storage
- $2.50/1000 visits for traffic overages
Small
- $160/mo*
- or get Pantheon Preferred $114/mo*
- 25K Monthly Visits
- 125K Pages Served
- 30GB SSD Storage1 app server with failover
Medium
- $275/mo*
- or get Pantheon Preferred $206/mo*
- 50K Monthly Visits
- 250K Pages Served
- 50GB SSD Storage
- 2 load balanced app servers
Large
- $550/mo*
- or get Pantheon Preferred $412/mo*
- 150K Monthly Visits
- 750K Pages Served
- 100GB SSD Storage
- 3 load balanced app servers
Extra Large
- $916/mo*
- or get Pantheon Preferred $687/mo*
- 300K Monthly Visits
- 1.5M Pages Served
- 200GB SSD Storage
- 4 load balanced app servers
*All monthly pricing is listed at prepaid annual rate.
All Pantheon Plans Include
VERSION CONTROL AND WORKFLOW
Every site comes with identical Dev, Test, and Live environments.
MANAGED HTTPS
Keep your site and your visitors secure with HTTPS certificates. Certs are renewed and managed by them.
AUTOMATED BACKUPS
Nightly automated backups of your site’s database, files, and code plus single-click restoration if something goes wrong.
GLOBAL CDN
Achieve sub-second page loads around the world thanks to Global CDN powered by Fastly.
MANAGED SITE MIGRATIONS
Stay focused on the work that matters. Pantheon migration experts provide white-glove, managed migrations.
CHAT SUPPORT
Get live chat support from Drupal and WordPress experts.
Ok. Let’s go in…
I will try a trial package to see how things are in this Patheon hosting infrastructure.
Try Drupal on Pantheon
When we register and start the trial package. We will go to page:
After completing the form filling will continue to the page:
On this page we can create new site or migrate existing site. In here we will create a new Drupal site.
When we create a new site we will get a temporary sub-domain from Pantheon. For us to build our new site before it is produced to the public with its own custom domain.
Name your site then continue
The name you give will be your temporary sub-domain. After finishing giving the name, continue …
Wait until the deployment process is complete.
After the deployment process is complete, we will be taken to the dashboard page. On this dashboard we can build, manage and maintain our website.
On the dashboard page we can see many sections.
- Multidev
- Dev
- Test
- Live
- Workflows
- Team
- Settings
- Billing
- Support
On Multidev section we can see…
In dev section..
In test section
In live section
In workflows section
Lets begin to install our Drupal..
Congrats.. Now Drupal has been installed…
If we go back to the Dashboard project
We will see the Drupal site projects that we have worked on earlier. Where in the Pantheon Dashboard, a project is called a Sandbox.
Now let’s try installing WordPress on the Pantheon Dashboard …
Try WordPress on Pantheon
On the dashboard create new site
Give the name to your new site. And the name you give will be a temporary sub-domain .. continue ..
Visit development site
Setting your new Pantheon WordPress site…
Success, your Pantheon WordPress site installed
Let’s login
Ok work… Congrats your Pantheon WordPress site its ready…
If we go back to the Dashboard project ..
Now we have two projects or two Sandbox.
If you want to enter one of your projects, just click on the respective Sandbox image.
Conclusion
Starting to build, manage, and take care of a blog or website on the Pantheon Hosting is very easy. For Drupal and wordpress just one click install.
Coupled with features for developers, so you will be more free and easier to express and explore.
If you are a beginner and not a developer or not an expert. You can visit complete documentations, which will guide you with directions that are very easy to follow.
If you want to try first, to find out what’s in the hosting package on offer. You can try it free and without having to provide credit card information. Just register and you can immediately try hosting Patheon like what I have done.
For the complete guide, just go to documentation. You can see a complete guide. Pantheon provides text and video guides.
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