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.
Using the HTTP Archive—presented by Google at WordCamp US—which tracks detailed performance data for hundreds of thousands of sites in the Alexa top 1M, I was able to show that the median WordPress site on Pantheon is 3x faster than elsewhere:
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.
Pantheon has always provided full page caching at our edge layer so that your HTML responses are served as fast as possible to your website's visitors, as well as handling huge spikes of traffic. Now with the launch of our Global CDN, those cached responses and their metadata go to 30+ points of presence worldwide. Responses from your site will come much faster when the caches are physically closer to your site visitors.
As the owner of a WooCommerce site, speed has a direct impact on your bottom line. The faster your site responds, the more your visitors will convert, and the higher your revenue will grow.
WooCommerce, meet Pantheon. Pantheon’s new Global CDN serves your cached product pages in milliseconds from 40+ worldwide points of presence. Rather than passing requests all of the way back to WordPress, it stores a rendered version of a page in Fastly’s distribution network.
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.
WordPress Multisite is widely used to power some of the largest WordPress sites on the internet.
Migrating a WordPress site onto the Pantheon platform is an easy process and can be done with just a few clicks. However, one of the limitations to that import process is the size of the tarball you create.
Today I am extremely proud to announce Pantheon’s Cloud Integration Tools suite, comprised of Quicksilver Platform Hooks, a new release of our Terminus command-line interface, a new YAML-based project configuration interface, and broad compatibility with SAML for centralized authentication.
Ready to move sites from a slow, old host to Pantheon? Does your old site need some TLC? Today I’m happy to announce a new migration experience to help move your Drupal and WordPress sites to Pantheon. Check it out yourself by selecting the “Migrate existing site” button in your User or Pantheon for Agencies dashboard.