Pantheon builds the world's best WebOps (Website Operations) platform, one that empowers marketing and development teams to take control of their websites, while giving them the agility to win in the dynamic world of digital marketing. Pantheon's mission is to make the web a first-class platform that delivers results.
| Support | 24/7 (Live rep) Business Hours Online | Customer Type | Large Enterprises Medium Business Small Business |
| API | Location / Phone Number | San Francisco, California | |
| Deployment | SaaS/Web/Cloud | Category | New SaaS Software |
Disclaimer: The pricing details were last updated on 28/11/2019 from the vendor website and may be different from actual. Please confirm with the vendor website before purchasing.
Learn more about Pantheon pricing.
Pantheon offers the following functionalities:
Learn more about Pantheon features.
Yes, Pantheon provides API.
What do you like best?
What defines Pantheon other than the intelligently designed DevOps setup is speed and efficiency. The speed of deployment, setup and the development workflow as well as content delivery on the front end.
I have been recommending Pantheon to my clients for years, not just because of the great workflow, performance benefits and great support but mostly because it makes developing so streamlined, from the effortless multi-dev environments to game changing tools like Terminus.
What do you dislike?The only downside I find is there is a lack of an entry level option lower in price and performance than the "Basic" offering. I find some clients would prefer something like that for very small websites or blogs.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?Since we started using Pantheon in 2014, our workflow has seen a massive efficiency improvement. We spend not time on system administration anymore and all of our time on developing. The multi dev staging workflow in particular has enabled us to develop fast and efficient in conjunction with our clients. Tools like Terminus make it very easy to perform admin tasks.
PROS & CONS
What are the best aspects of this product?
I like that Pantheon’s developers have done a great in creating the platform to help optimize our site migration process. I like it most because of its ability to host websites and accommodate high volume traffic, especially during peak hours. Ever since we decided to move to Pantheon, we seldom experience issues with our website, which is favorable on our end.
What aspects are problematic or could work better?
Although Pantheon's performance is better than any web hosting platform, I'm still not too fond of the dashboard design. I find it confusing to use, so I am rooting for a newer or upgraded version of the product. It takes me more time to accomplish some of my tasks because I still have to familiarize myself with Pantheon's layout.
What specific problems in your company were solved by this product?
We feel more secure that Pantheon will keep our website no matter what happens. The coding structure is robust as it seems to withstand any bugs or issues that we may encounter while visitors flood our website.
Are you a current user of this product?
Yes
What do you like best?
Easy to use and track changes, painless handoffs between teams.
What do you dislike?The deployment site is sometimes a little slow - though I've never seen any impact to actual hosting.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?Getting deployment environments up quickly and easily when working with distributed teams and clients.
What do you like best?
Reliability, customer support, dev/test/live workflow
What do you dislike?Not always clear what changes will be included in commits
Recommendations to others considering the product:Learn the details of the workflow and you will be all set.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?Having the dev environment makes building a site easy, even with client access. nothing goes live until everything is totally working
PROS & CONS
What are the best aspects of this product?
Our development team spent too much time scouting for a tool that can help us fully scale websites and make them faster and more profitable. We heard many amazing reviews about Pantheon, so we decided to give it a try and see how it fares up to our standards. So far, we could migrate several sites successfully that made us more confident to continue our work. Most of its features are the ones that we offer and discuss with our clients, and luckily, most of them like the results of the sites that we have developed for them.
What aspects are problematic or could work better?
The good thing about having to use Pantheon is that the workload that we have in our department has been reduced dramatically, and some of my employees don’t like it. I find it amusing that they are willing to take in more work as long as they get to host websites that they have maintained and developed for quite some time.
What specific problems in your company were solved by this product?
We are currently doing a complete overhaul of our websites by changing its overall interface and content. We are doing this because we want our business to be more competitive and produce more traffic. We are happy that we can utilize the testing environment as much as we can to ensure that our launch will become a success.
Are you a current user of this product?
Yes
PROS & CONS
What are the best aspects of this product?
Pantheon can bring out the best in any website in terms of speed, stability, and performance. I am glad that I can migrate our WordPress site to Pantheon without dealing with numerous coding issues.
What aspects are problematic or could work better?
Pantheon offers high web development standards, so it's not that easy to comply with their basic requirements before you can proceed to the migration process. That is why you need to have full coding knowledge of all your sites to avoid experiencing any problems along the way. You should also be aware that several adjustments can affect your area's development workflow after you have transitioned to Pantheon.
What specific problems in your company were solved by this product?
We can acquire more clients who trust us to develop and launch their sites using Pantheon. It offers a stable environment that you can certainly perform to increase your site rankings as you invite more traffic. We would rather pay for better bandwidth as long as the site produces more ROI than projected.
Are you a current user of this product?
Yes
PROS & CONS
What are the best aspects of this product?
I am extremely confident working on new sites that I need to develop further because it's so easy to reach out for support. The platform is structured in a manner that is easy to understand and deploy changes.
What aspects are problematic or could work better?
There are times when the sites we work on start to slow down or are unable to load. It can cause us frustration at certain times, but we could find a way to get over the situation.
What specific problems in your company were solved by this product?
The entire process of developing a website has been more straightforward and more structured since we have shifted to Pantheon. I don't have to worry about working on different testing apps simultaneously because everything can be done seamlessly through Pantheon's help.
Are you a current user of this product?
Yes
PROS & CONS
What are the best aspects of this product?
Using this software is indeed life-changing for most of our staff. It helps take good care of many things, including malware and hacking issues that are known to be prevalent in the online world. Pantheon does an amazing job of keeping the sites secured no matter what happens. This means that our company is also saving a lot of money. We can divert the saved money to maintenance instead.
What aspects are problematic or could work better?
I think that Pantheon is a competitive tool that can help you boost your business. But if you would ask me if there are any improvements that I would personally like to implement, I think they should work more on developing a reporting portal. This way, it would be easier for us to show clients how the metrics are being managed.
What specific problems in your company were solved by this product?
There is a long list of things that we can benefit from using Pantheon. I know that it does an amazing job in web development. It also allows us to improve our customer online experience.
Are you a current user of this product?
Yes
What do you like best?
Pantheon's "opinionated" platform is well thought out, and the setup saves tons of development time compared to more basic hosting plans. Pantheon may as well be the gold standard for how to host -- how to keep sites running well, how to avoid common development problems, and how to develop more quickly because you're not fiddling around with creating a custom setup that keeps things running well.
What do you dislike?The Pantheon Dashboard, once excellent, is now a barely functional mess. They said that a new version is coming soon, but I wish it hadn't broken so badly in the meantime. The problems don't stop me from getting things done, but they make certain tasks more confusing and a little slower than they need to be. I hope that they fix all the dashboard problems soon.
Recommendations to others considering the product:Pantheon just works. See whether their plans are in your ballpark budget, and if they are, see if you can partner with a Pantheon-approved agency to get preferred pricing. You'll probably save money on the development end of things because your developer(s) will spend less time dealing with hosting-related issues like they would on many other hosting platforms.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?We don't have to worry about sites going down due to cowboy coding, poorly-coded plugins, unexpected updates, or sudden spikes in traffic. We've experienced a number of avoidable disasters before we moved to Pantheon, and now things run well.
What do you like best?
Pantheon knows what they're best at, and focuses on just doing that. By focusing on WordPress and Drupal as their only supported platform, support staff is able to offer support for software as well as the hosting environment.
What do you dislike?There are a lot of limitations or specific requirements for using the Pantheon platform. If you follow coding best practices you should be in good shape, however all of the optimizations they do for site performance as well as the CDN require some changes to your workflow. For example one can only write to the server on the Dev environment, Test and Live are locked down.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?Pantheon allows us to give our clients the best possible hosting environment. One of the interesting things we realized recently is that on a VPS or other hosting environment you tend to upgrade resources because your site goes down or otherwise has performance suffer. On Pantheon, you performance never suffers, you just pay for more bandwidth.
The research is compiled using multiple sources, let us know of any feedback on feedback@saasworthy.com
