Pantheon hosting and DevOps: launches that are boring in a good way

A good deploy is a non-event. You click nothing, nobody holds their breath, and the site just has the new feature. We set up and run Drupal and WordPress sites on Pantheon with a workflow built to make every launch that uneventful. Our Pantheon hosting and DevOps work covers organizations in Birmingham, Montgomery, and well beyond Alabama.

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Why we host on Pantheon

We've worked with a lot of hosts since 1997. For Drupal and WordPress sites where reliability matters, we keep coming back to Pantheon. We wrote about why in our 2026 hosting guide. The short version:

Separate development, test, and live environments. Changes are proven before they reach visitors.
Daily backups you don't have to think about, so a bad change costs you minutes, not a week of rebuilding.
A platform built for Drupal and WordPress, with a global CDN and enough headroom for traffic spikes.

We're a Pantheon partner, so we know the platform from the inside, not just from the dashboard.

Drupal and WordPress DevOps: what we set up and look after

Migration onto Pantheon. We move your site, database, and files, test everything in the new environment, and switch DNS when it's ready. Coming from another host? Yes, we migrate sites from other hosts. Downtime is planned around you.

Git-based workflow. All code lives in version control. Nothing gets edited directly on the live server, so you always know what changed, when, and why.

Three-step releases. Development, then test, then live. Each release is checked in an environment that mirrors production before it goes out.

Visual checks before deploys. We built dd_sitediff to compare test and live screenshots and flag what changed visually. It catches the CSS slip that unit tests miss.

CDN, SSL, and DNS. We set them up properly, document them, and don't leave you wondering who owns the domain.

Backups and recovery. Backups run daily, and we test recovery, so getting back up after a problem is a practiced routine, not a first attempt.

The tool we built because a typo shouldn't take down your live site

Most of the dangerous moments in hosting are command-line moments: deploy to the wrong environment, overwrite the wrong database. So we built dd_pantheon, an open-source terminal cockpit for Pantheon sites. Every Terminus, Lando, or git command shows up in a preview before it runs, and anything that touches live requires typing the word live, not hitting "y."

You'll probably never see it. It's one of the reasons your deploys are quiet.

Who this is for

Organizations on Drupal or WordPress that want hosting and deploys handled by the people who know the code.
Teams moving off shared hosting after one too many outages or slow months.
Agencies that need someone to run Pantheon workflows for client sites. See agency partners.

Case study: a national non-profit network, all on Pantheon. A national non-profit's web presence was scattered across its local chapters, and the sites didn't match from one to the next. We put the national WordPress site and more than 70 chapter sites on Pantheon, so the whole network runs on one consistent platform that's easier to maintain, secure, and keep fast. Then we rolled the chapter sites out in phases rather than all at once. After the relaunch, the network saw about 20% more visitors and a significant rise in donation clicks. Read the full case study

FAQ

Usually directly. You own your Pantheon account and give us access, so the site stays yours no matter what. If you'd rather not deal with it, we can own the account for you and pass the hosting cost through.

Yes. For Drupal and WordPress, Pantheon is our first choice, but we also work on Acquia, and on AWS and Azure through DevPanel. For static sites, we've used other platforms, including Sevalla, as covered in our hosting guide.

It means the path from "a developer changed something" to "it's on your live site" is automated, repeatable, and checked at every step. You get fewer surprises and faster fixes when something does go wrong.

We plan cutovers so any interruption is brief and happens when it hurts least. We'll agree on the timing with you in advance.

Hosting keeps the server healthy. Drupal core, WordPress core, and module or plugin updates are still part of looking after the site. Our care plans start with managed quarterly CMS updates, with more available as add-ons.

Get off the fragile setup

If deploys at your organization involve crossed fingers, tell us how things work today. A developer will look at it and explain what we'd change and why.

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