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Leaving Pantheon
Pantheon is the most enterprise-flavored host on this list. Real CDN, real workflow, real CI/CD integrations. Real prices, too — they're priced for institutions.
10-year cost projection
What Pantheon actually is
Enterprise-grade managed Drupal and WordPress hosting.
Pricing: Plans start at $41/mo (Performance, one site) and climb steeply for enterprise tiers ($300+/mo common).
If you're a university, government department, or large nonprofit running an actively-developed Drupal or WordPress site with multiple developers, Pantheon is a fair tool. If you're a small institution with a frozen site that nobody touches, you're paying institutional prices for what is effectively static content.
Pantheon migrations are particularly satisfying because the savings are usually large — institutional Pantheon plans often run $1,200–3,600/year. Migrating to a one-time €600 turns a permanent line item into a closed account.
What they do well
- Best-in-class developer workflow for active CMS projects
- Strong CDN and performance guarantees
- Enterprise-grade compliance and support
Why people leave
- The development team that justified Pantheon's price disbanded
- The site stopped being actively maintained
- Budget review flagged the recurring cost
What you keep when leaving
- Every URL
- All content, structure, and meta
- SEO authority
- Domain ownership
What you lose leaving
- Multi-environment workflow (you're not using it anymore)
- Pantheon's compliance certifications (irrelevant for brochure sites)
Our take
Pantheon's price is justifiable while you're shipping. It's hard to justify after.
Questions
We're on Pantheon's Drupal hosting. Does that work?
Yes — we handle Drupal on Pantheon the same way we handle Drupal anywhere else. Render the live site, capture the output, ship to Cloudflare.
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