Backed With $1.3 Million, Pantheon Launches Drupal-Based Development Platform

by njudahon 9/30/2011, 4:41:58 PM with 5 comments
  • by netaustinon 9/30/2011, 5:39:34 PM

    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.

  • by niron 9/30/2011, 5:16:11 PM

    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.

  • by rdlon 9/30/2011, 5:11:12 PM

    This sounds more PaaS than SaaS.

  • by nowarninglabelon 9/30/2011, 5:25:54 PM

    Happy to see some competition enter the market, to keep Acquia on their toes and continuing to innovate.

  • by dreamdu5ton 9/30/2011, 5:28:15 PM

    I find it curious that the Drupal architecture was never succesfully duplicated in another language.