As a platform, Pantheon is proud to provide the best development tools along with our lightning fast hosting. As part of that Pantheon provides a free New Relic APM Pro plan for every site on Pantheon, regardless of plan level. New Relic’s best-in-class tools allow developers to pinpoint exactly what’s slowing sites down and track performance over time.

With your New Relic account from Pantheon, you get access to the following New Relic products:

Pantheon often touts version control, namely Git, as one of the tools of successful developers. However, for the many developers out there currently not using Git, I am going to go out on a limb: you probably know about it, have tried it, and are doing just fine without it, thank you very much. Your customers are happy, sites are chugging along, and the last thing you need is a cryptic command-line tool to add complexity and slow your flow.

Let’s face it—nobody likes to rely on patches. A project is much easier to maintain when it is using standard versions of all of its dependencies. Without patches, a project can be kept up to date simply by running composer update. 

Today I’m excited to announce that Pantheon enforces HTTPS by default. For quite some time, HTTPS has been included for all Pantheon sites, but you’d need to do some extra work to make sure your site isn’t accessible over insecure HTTP. That’s changed as of today, thanks in part to the magic of Pantheon’s upstream model. Now it’s easier than ever to implement best practices, make your site and your visitors more secure, and to boost SEO.

Update (April 17, 2023): In addition to our always included Global CDN, Pantheon now offers additional features and customizations with Advanced Global CDN, enabling delivery teams to shape customer experiences at all levels. With Advanced Global CDN, empower teams to independently manage multiple sites without using subdomains, drive growth through iteration, calibrate control over branding, and extend enterprise-grade security.

Building the Pantheon platform meant tackling one of the big remaining “hard problems” in cloud services head-on: how to provide a secure, scalable, synchronous network-attached filesystem for Drupal? We solved this problem with Valhalla, a breakthrough technology that serves files for the 10s of 1,000s of Drupal sites running on Pantheon.