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Let’s Talk Authentication: Social Login Released

Today we’re pleased to announce the release of social login, allowing you to authenticate to Pantheon with your Google identity. Social login is part of a larger drive to let you connect other online services you rely on to Pantheon, and comes on the tail of the release of Cloud Integration Tools. It also adds another option for you to interact with Pantheon without a password, which translates into stronger security and a better user experience.

Importing Large WordPress sites into Pantheon

Recently I wrote about how to prepare your site and import it into Pantheon’s new WordPress platform. This process works well for smaller sites. However, if you have a large WordPress installation, the process may not work. The Pantheon Importer has a limit on the size of files it can process. If you are uploading the file to Pantheon, the limit is 100MB. If you are giving the Pantheon Importer a URL, the file cannot be larger than 500MB.

How Pantheon Scales

We often get questions from customers about how Pantheon scales to meet production traffic demands. Usually, people want to know how much memory or many cores their site gets for running PHP and the database, which is not quite the right questions for Pantheon projects.

Let’s step through common site bottlenecks and explore how Pantheon supports scale—and your sites can too with the right design.

Build & Launch New Landing Pages (Without Stressing IT)

Marketers like to dream big, especially when it comes to websites. We’re always looking to optimize our sites to increase pageviews, decrease bounce, and move prospects along the buyer’s journey. That’s because we know an optimized website is critical to any company’s success, regardless of industry. In the consumer market, 81% perform online research before making big purchases. As far as the B2B market?

The 60-Second FTP Demo

One of the features we've built into Pantheon is an active "on-server development" mode that allows you to use an (S)FTP client to work directly on the platform. It even tracks the files as you change them, and gives you a helpful UI for turning your changes into a Git commit:

When and How to Pay for Pantheon

Pantheon is free for developers to use for as long as you need. You can spin it up and try almost all features without seeing a credit card form. No trials, no tricks, no crippleware. 

But clearly we're running a business here, so where does the money come in? This post details when it makes sense to keep your site on the “free” plan, and when you’d benefit more from a paid account.

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