Focus on content, let pantheon do the heavy lifting.
May 05, 2023

Focus on content, let pantheon do the heavy lifting.

Lankit Patel | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

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  • Gold

Overall Satisfaction with Pantheon

Use case: we primarily used it to leverage serverless CMS deployment for our subsite that is developed on WordPress. Scope Of Usage: we used it to host our blog and share updates with our community. we employe whole department of content writer and marketing folks, thus continues stream of blog post was estimated. if we had chosen traditional server, we'd have to scale it manually, This is where Pantheon comes in handy, it provides our site on serverless platform so we'll never have to worry about scalability. on top of it, we needed in-depth insights of applications. Pantheon provides performance monitoring using New Relic. this was epitome of this service because we were actively monitoring performance gain and bottlenecks. it aligned pretty well with our agenda of optimizing our website for performance across all device.

Pros

  • Performance monitoring.
  • CDN
  • Serverless

Cons

  • Since it can host CMS, it would be nice if it could also host Laravel.
  • Caching is not on-par compared with AWS Elasticache.
  • Less DevOps task.
  • Focus on content.
  • Performance insight to improve the deliverables.
Yes - AWS Lightsail: it was a manual deployment and required technical knowledge to deploy and reflect changes over time. Caching was also being done manually using AWS CloudFront. The database was self-hosted on the same instance. Caching was mostly managed through plugins and AWS CloudFront. Monitoring was done via AWS CloudWatch along with alarms which work well but had to be set up manually.
Although it may seem a good fit for a company that needs extra control over the deployment process and development process, for a firm that is mainly concentrating on SEO, it would be an overkill. Pantheon provides that sweet automation that allows us to shed some weight on development and focus on our business activities.

Do you think Pantheon delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Pantheon's feature set?

Yes

Did Pantheon live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Pantheon go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Pantheon again?

Yes

Well-suited: Below are the criteria that you should consider if you want to check whether you should jump into Pantheon. if you're firm whose primary focus is not web development you're most business is centered around SEO, where implementation of idea take precedence. if you want to focus on content of website or posts of your blog you dont want to manage the tideos task of DevOps engineer to deploy and maintain your website. Less Appropriate: below if you're primarily a development firm need custom solution with extra control on resources.

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