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The OSU College of Engineering Leans on Pantheon to Migrate to the Cloud
Why Pantheon: Expert and Responsive
When Hopkins-Lutz was researching web platform vendors, two companies made their way to the top of the shortlist. One vendor submitted its bid five weeks past the deadline and lacked important features. Pantheon was on time and eager to support the College’s needs. Additionally, Pantheon offered a critical feature for the College: Terminus command-line utility for scripting and automating site maintenance and code deployment tasks — further saving the team time and effort.
Pantheon Support was excellent, easy to work with, and responsive, said Hopkins-Lutz. The platform’s efficient architecture ensured at least 99.9% uptime over the past four years. Should any issue occur, support engineers respond immediately to find the solution.
He added, “I met the Pantheon people at DrupalCon and was struck by how friendly and attentive they were. That never changed. I've had nothing but good experiences.”
Results: A Renewed Focus on Faculty and Students
Robust management tools and built-in redundancy saved system admins 20% of their time, allowing them to concentrate on optimizing and improving the College websites. Dev-Test-Live, Multidev, and Terminus saved time by automating multiple processes and improved development outcomes. The team calculated that without this level of automation, they would have hired at least one extra developer, just to keep up with the rate of development that Pantheon enables.
Pantheon’s Global CDN improved performance and page loads with the Drupal 9 upgrade. And Pantheon’s robust infrastructure enabled the team to successfully consolidate 300 smaller websites into 50 to 60 sites — a greater than 80% reduction that resulted in higher traffic and better user satisfaction, from students and faculty.
Hopkins-Lutz added, “Simplifying management and DevOps gave us enough time to help faculty and students with standalone applications and important technical projects. This approach increased our value to the College beyond delivering great websites.”
