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Pantheon is the best website host you had never heard of
Updated March 30, 2017

Pantheon is the best website host you had never heard of

Rob Watson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Reseller

Overall Satisfaction with Pantheon

Pantheon solves the problems we used to have with other brand hosting providers where the management of the hosting accounts and all the technical pieces used to be a huge pain. Pantheon makes hosting management AND continuous integration of code a seamless, enjoyable process by comparison. It has become the only hosting company we recommend without any reservation to all of our clients and we use it for all of the sites we develop for clients whether they choose to host on Pantheon or some other service.
  • Free development and testing environments
  • Secure hosting
  • Fast page and site performance
  • Free NewRelic APM tools
  • Seamless continuous integration
  • Sometimes the use of WP-CLI and Terminus (command line tool, not the marketing software by the same name) is necessary to complete a task when there ought to be a way to do that task via the UI
  • Sometimes Dev and Test URLs can leak into Production sites (and vice versa), requiring database UPDATE queries to correct. I'm told this is being worked on.
  • Hours of time saved normalizing dev and test environments
  • Hours of time saved cloning between dev, test, and live environments
  • Faster site performance resulting in more ROI for ecommerce sites
GoDaddy, HostGator and 1&1 all rely on an antiquated, virtual machine paradigm that doesn't scale well in shared hosting environments and is really difficult for novice website owners to upgrade to more sophisticated services. By contrast, Pantheon is engineered from the ground up to use containerization on nginx and abstracts away the complexities of cpanel. Pantheon's opinionated approach to continuous integration cuts way down on "human error" factors of website development and deployment. GoDaddy, HostGator, 1&1, and other traditional hosting companies just don't have the seamless dev/test/live workflows that Pantheon has.
Pantheon is well-suited for creating development sites quickly and avoiding all of the hours and pain involved with spinning up a new site for development in the "old" localhost way. For one project I'm involved with, a developer who was used to the localhost tooling was amazed at how quickly he could begin writing and testing WordPress code with Pantheon and could hardly believe he had never heard of it!