If Pantheon used traditional architectures (e.g. shared hosting, VMs, or clusters) we'd never achieve our goals. "Hosting" is too slow, clunky and manual, even in the era of virtual machines. We needed something that could be fully automated via software, and could deliver breakthrough performance, scalability, and efficiency.
Instead of "hosting", we built a massive multi-tenant platform using containers on top of dedicated infrastructure. Watch this video to learn more about how Pantheon scales with containers.
Ok, that’s still a lot of buzzwords. How does the Pantheon Platform work in practice?
Runtime Matrix
Content Base
Dashboard
The Dashboard is a real-time interface into Pantheon. It includes everything you need to build, launch and run sites. You can create new projects, manage team access, interface via SFTP or Git (version control), and track miscellaneous tools like backups. It also allows you to deploy and scale your sites.
You're not stuck with a web UI, either. Terminus, a command-line interface to the platform, lets you script and automate everything from imports to testing to go-live. The CLI allows you to leverage existing DevOps resources to move even faster with the Pantheon platform.