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

by njudah on 9/30/11, 4:41 PM with 11 comments

• by netaustin on 9/30/11, 5:39 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 nir on 9/30/11, 5:16 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 rdl on 9/30/11, 5:11 PM

  This sounds more PaaS than SaaS.

• by nowarninglabel on 9/30/11, 5:25 PM

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

• by dreamdu5t on 9/30/11, 5:28 PM

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