We launched TheFix.com on Pantheon, very early on (eight months ago), and have been really happy with the platform. Pantheon costs them about 20% of the server cluster we would otherwise have recommended.
This is an bigger deal, from a tech perspective, than the TC story implies. Automating Drupal hosting and really solving the developer workflow is a real feat. Most of what Rails or Django has in config files or framework-driven build scripts is stored in the database. This makes staging and deployment kind of a pain.
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We launched TheFix.com on Pantheon, very early on (eight months ago), and have been really happy with the platform. Pantheon costs them about 20% of the server cluster we would otherwise have recommended.
This is an bigger deal, from a tech perspective, than the TC story implies. Automating Drupal hosting and really solving the developer workflow is a real feat. Most of what Rails or Django has in config files or framework-driven build scripts is stored in the database. This makes staging and deployment kind of a pain.
We were lucky to get into their beta and for the past 6 months been building our site on their platform. Great platform, great team.
Congrats on the announcement Zack & Team!!!!
Can you run custom modules on it?
[I work at Pantheon]
Yes, you can run your custom Drupal site on it, contributed or custom modules.
Yeah, you commit to git, they deploy. You could probably run some non-Drupal stuff on it though the dashboard and features are optimized for Drupal.
Yep - we have about 15 custom modules and counting..
This sounds more PaaS than SaaS.
This is correct.
Happy to see some competition enter the market, to keep Acquia on their toes and continuing to innovate.
I find it curious that the Drupal architecture was never succesfully duplicated in another language.