Overall Satisfaction with Acquia Digital Experience Platform
Our brand website is hosted on Acquia [Digital Experience Platform]. We have just begun moving our corporate website there as well. In addition, the development team is just transitioning to the Cloud IDE for development (from using Docksal/Docker and PhpStorm). We have longer-term plans to move other web properties to Drupal/Acquia as well.
- Dashboard makes deploys simple
- Automatically created dev and stage environments are useful
- IDE promises to simplify employee onboarding and dev environment setup in general
- The technical support is exceptionally good.
- Some setup issues with using IDE with external code repo
- Naming of environment URLs is a little confusing/inconsistent
- Drupal itself has enabled us to build a rich editor experience that our non-technical marketing team appreciates
- The ability to focus more on development and less on technical infrastructure allowed my team to execute a complete site redesign in 6 months
The decision to host on Acquia [Digital Experience Platform] was made before I joined the company, so no insight here.
The VPS/cPanel solution is just "raw" LAMP stack hosting, so nothing Drupal-specific and no automatically set-up multiple dev environments with a dashboard to manage them. This is what I [have done] for the last 15 years for my clients. For one client, we evaluated Pantheon, and I would have been happy to go with them, but Acquia [Digital Experience Platform] had a better reputation for security and support. I never got to migrate that client to Pantheon (still too pricey), so my experience is only cursory.
Do you think Acquia Digital Experience Platform delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Acquia Digital Experience Platform's feature set?
Yes
Did Acquia Digital Experience Platform live up to sales and marketing promises?
I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process
Did implementation of Acquia Digital Experience Platform go as expected?
I wasn't involved with the implementation phase
Would you buy Acquia Digital Experience Platform again?
Yes