Content Delivery

Advanced Global CDN

Edge configuration tools that enable advanced site management, enhanced security, and a robust WAF.

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For Customers That Require Unique Optimizations for Digital Delivery at Scale

Advanced Global CDN takes Pantheon's CDN offering a step forward. Manage sites, drive growth through iteration, calibrate control over branding, and extend enterprise-grade security.

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Secure, Reliable, and Fast

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Connecting the platform to the cloud.

We Handle Setup, Maintenance, & Support

Advanced Global CDN is supported by Pantheon’s highly experienced professional team who can set up, configure, and maintain your Fastly edge configurations. Tap into the expertise of a team with vast experience implementing CDNs, WAFs, and complex edge logic.

Shape Advanced Content Delivery at Every Level

Manage groups of websites without subdomains and unlock personalization and targeted messaging at scale. Maintain control over messaging and IP with location-based blocking and redirection

Direct Site Traffic Seamlessly

Domain Masking

With domain masking you can review requests at the edge, and direct traffic to new pages before your CMS application starts - all with a seamless experience for visitors.

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Set Your Brands & Teams Free

Empower your best teams and brands to own their websites, while maintaining visibility and security compliance. With Advanced Global CDN's domain masking and reverse proxy, teams can independently manage multiple Drupal and Wordpress sites without the obstruction of subdomains or risk of SEO loss.

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Control Messaging & Intellectual Property

Exercise control over your website like never before with measures that include geolocation blocking and redirection. Leverage custom logic on the Fastly edge cloud platform to show your visitors exactly what they should see and nothing else

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Rest Easy With Powerful Edge-Based Security

Unlock the power of the edge to enable secure control over your full stack. Advanced Global CDN allows for the delivery of custom edge-based services and rules including a robust web application firewall (WAF) for calibrating control over your brand.

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Security for Everyone
Domain Masking

Direct Site Traffic Seamlessly

Domain Masking

With domain masking you can review requests at the edge, and direct traffic to new pages before your CMS application starts - all with a seamless experience for visitors.

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Visibility & Compliance

Set Your Brands & Teams Free

Empower your best teams and brands to own their websites, while maintaining visibility and security compliance. With Advanced Global CDN's domain masking and reverse proxy, teams can independently manage multiple Drupal and Wordpress sites without the obstruction of subdomains or risk of SEO loss.

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Messaging & IP

Control Messaging & Intellectual Property

Exercise control over your website like never before with measures that include geolocation blocking and redirection. Leverage custom logic on the Fastly edge cloud platform to show your visitors exactly what they should see and nothing else

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Web Application Firewall

Rest Easy With Powerful Edge-Based Security

Unlock the power of the edge to enable secure control over your full stack. Advanced Global CDN allows for the delivery of custom edge-based services and rules including a robust web application firewall (WAF) for calibrating control over your brand.

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Security for Everyone

Solutions To Fit Business Needs on Every Step of the Journey

Content delivery and website interface has moved to the edge. Geofencing, A/B testing, stage migrations, firewalls - all can be done better and more efficiently with Pantheon's Advanced Global CDN

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Advanced Global CDN

Pantheon users can easily manage edge customizations for groups of websites, unlock personalization and targeted messaging at scale. With Advanced Global CDN, users can regain control over messaging and intellectual property with location-based blocking, redirection, and IP blocklisting.

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Advanced Global CDN w/ WAF IO

Bring a full suite of edge security capabilities with a CMS-tuned web application firewall (WAF), rate limiting to guard critical assets, and engage visitors in rich content with image optimization (IO). The WAF inspects requests and rapidly applies rules to protect your site integrity.

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Global CDN is Always Included

Never miss a chance to engage with a visitor. Every site on Pantheon benefits from a faster visitor experience because the Global CDN caches pages nearby. Advanced Global CDN offers the ability to tailor Global CDN to your unique needs to go above and beyond in delighting your customers.

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The huge speed improvement meant adopting Image Optimization with Advanced Global CDN had real benefits - helping us drive traffic and visibility to local business - Bao Truong, Director of Engineering, Los Angeles Tourism & Convention Board quote
Customer Story

L.A. Tourism and Convention Board

The Los Angeles Tourism and Convention Board overcomes demand spikes and prepares for a major CMS version upgrade.

Improved Performance & Security

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Security Starter

As attack surfaces expand, businesses require additional security beyond the CMS to protect their web sites. Bring industry standard rules including OWASP and Drupal/WordPress protections and secure your sites with a web application firewall (WAF) - tuned for each CMS, geolocation and IP blocking.

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IO Starter

Improve Lighthouse scores and core web vitals with improved page load times. Modern image optimization and auto WebP support to render pages at light-speed from the edge, offloading work from your servers and adds resilience to your site.

See which Advanced Global CDN offering suits your content delivery and website needs best

 
Global CDNAdvanced Global CDNAdvanced Global CDN + WAF IO
Performance Features
   
Image Optimization (IO) at the Edge*With IO StarterWith IO StarterYes
Full-Page & Asset CachingYesYesYes
Security Features
   
IP Allow/BlocklistingYesYesYes
IP Allow/Blocklisting at EdgeWith Security StarterYesYes
Layer 3 & 4 DDoS Protection & MitigationYesYesYes
Layer 7/Enterprise WAF Rules*With Security StarterNoYes
Managed HTTPS (SSL/TLS)YesYesYes
Origin ShieldingYesYesYes
OWASP & WAF Rules for WordPress/DrupalWith Security StarterNoYes
Rate Limiting for Form & Log-in PagesNoNoYes
SOC 2 Type 2 ComplianceYesYesYes
Token Authentication / JWT (JSON Web Token)YesYesYes
Token Authentication / JWT - AdvancedNoYesYes
Management Features
   
Custom Error & Maintenance Page RulesNoYesYes
Device Detection & Edge ControlNoYesYes
Domain MaskingNoYesYes
Edge RedirectsNoYesYes
Enterprise Blue/Green SupportNoYesYes
Full CDN Edge LogsNoYesYes
Geolocation / Geofencing Edge Control
 
With Security StarterYesYes
Modify Headers at the EdgeNoYesYes
Starter Packages
   
Security Starter*OptionalOptionalIncluded
IO Starter*OptionalOptionalIncluded

*Contact Sales for standalone WAF and IO options

Advanced Global CDN Features

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Domain Masking

With domain masking, brands with multiple websites can combine their online experience under a single domain - to create a seamless user experience. By leveraging domain masking, businesses can combine new sites and legacy sites, without having to wait months for a traditional site relaunch.

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Geolocation Detection and Blocking

Regain control of your brand and intellectual property with fast and accurate location-based blocking and redirection. Save resources, improve security, and maintain compliance with routing that takes place at the edge, before your CMS ever starts.

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Web Application Firewall (WAF)

Stay on message and ensure site integrity with a custom web application firewall. Pantheon's WAF inspects each uncached request in excruciating detail and rapidly applies rules to keep your online presence stable.

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IP Allow/Blocklisting

Keep the wraps on your latest product launch, while holding competitors and intellectual property thieves at bay. Easily manage IP address lists and restrict access to your development and test environments to just your team.

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Edge Logging

Gain visibility into the security of your site and take action on your site’s end-to-end traffic with access to edge logs and tools to merge and synchronize edge and server logs.

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Custom Rules and Redirects

Our Advanced CDN unlocks the ability to implement custom site rules including bespoke cookie-handling, URL rate-limiting, header modifications and filters, and URL and query string sorting and filtering.

Advanced Global CDN Customer Stories

Case Study

L.A. Tourism Optimizes Media Rich Site for Online Programming to Support Local Businesses

The City of Los Angeles’ tourism board overcomes demand spikes for its largest event and executes a major CMS version upgrade.

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Massachusetts’ Wheaton College Launches Digital Transformation and Fine-Tunes Marketing Engine

Pantheon and Boston Digital Enable Small Web Team to Transform Users’ Website Experience.

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O2E Brands Transforms Customer Digital Experience with Pantheon

O2E Brands Innovates Franchise Services and Support, Boosts Productivity, and Enhances Security with the Powerful Pantheon WebOps Platform.