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

Posted by njudah on Friday September 30, 2011 @12:41PM
from the techcrunch.com dept.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/30/pantheon/

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Re:Backed With $1.3 Million, Pantheon Launches Drupal-Based ... by netaustin on Friday September 30, 2011 @01:39PM (#3057858)

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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Re:Backed With $1.3 Million, Pantheon Launches Drupal-Based ... by nir on Friday September 30, 2011 @01:16PM (#3057758)

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.

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Re:Backed With $1.3 Million, Pantheon Launches Drupal-Based ... by gustaf on Friday September 30, 2011 @01:30PM (#3057830)

Congrats on the announcement Zack & Team!!!!

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Re:Backed With $1.3 Million, Pantheon Launches Drupal-Based ... by mcantelon on Friday September 30, 2011 @01:19PM (#3057773)

Can you run custom modules on it?

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Re:Backed With $1.3 Million, Pantheon Launches Drupal-Based ... by jemond on Friday September 30, 2011 @01:25PM (#3057801)

[I work at Pantheon]

Yes, you can run your custom Drupal site on it, contributed or custom modules.

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Re:Backed With $1.3 Million, Pantheon Launches Drupal-Based ... by greggles on Friday September 30, 2011 @01:24PM (#3057795)

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.

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Re:Backed With $1.3 Million, Pantheon Launches Drupal-Based ... by nir on Friday September 30, 2011 @01:29PM (#3057824)

Yep - we have about 15 custom modules and counting..

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Re:Backed With $1.3 Million, Pantheon Launches Drupal-Based ... by rdl on Friday September 30, 2011 @01:11PM (#3057739)

This sounds more PaaS than SaaS.

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Re:Backed With $1.3 Million, Pantheon Launches Drupal-Based ... by knieveltech on Friday September 30, 2011 @01:13PM (#3057750)

This is correct.

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Re:Backed With $1.3 Million, Pantheon Launches Drupal-Based ... by nowarninglabel on Friday September 30, 2011 @01:25PM (#3057805)

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

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Re:Backed With $1.3 Million, Pantheon Launches Drupal-Based ... by dreamdu5t on Friday September 30, 2011 @01:28PM (#3057820)

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

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