Hosting Partnerships

Hosting Partnerships

The solution for web development teams wanting to move their Drupal websites to the cloud.

Work with Campus Web Services

Here's what you get:

Platform level support from an experienced team.

We are already hosting over 350 campus websites on Pantheon and have extensive team experience with the platform and all of the tools available to make the most of it. We manage custom upstreams, automate our workflows with Terminus, and meet quarterly with Pantheon to review how we are using the platform and what is coming up on the roadmap. We'll help to make sure that you aren't blindsided by platform level changes and will work with you to iron out any kinks in this new environment.

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The base of the website pyramid

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Diagram showing Quickstart Upstream

Fully maintained Upstream for continuous delivery of Quickstart.

With the Quickstart Upstream, Drupal 9 core is packaged together with the Arizona digital branding assets, and commonly needed components into a desired start-state to use over and over again. Spin up new sites in seconds, with the ability to release improvements to the shared upstream code at scale. No more starting from scratch or needing senior talent to set up a new project, no more headaches over updates. 

Campus Web Services manages this Upstream and typically makes updates available within hours of Arizona Digital tagging a new release of Quickstart.

 

Get full access to all developer features in Pantheon.

Working within our institutional Edu+ contract with Pantheon gives you access to features such as Multi-dev that are typically only available on Elite level sites. Your permissions will allow you to see all of your sites on a single dashboard and have full code level access to all of your environments. We won't be a bottleneck for any of your development work, but are available if you have any problems or questions about best practices.

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Why Pantheon?

Pantheon's container-based, Drupal-centric hosting platform allows us to centrally manage hundreds of sites quickly, securely and confidently.

High Performance Hosting

Take advantage of Pantheon's containerized cloud infrastructure that is optimized for Drupal websites.

Core Updates via Click or Command Line

All Drupal 7, 8 and 9 websites hosted on Pantheon can deploy core updates with the push of a button. If using Quickstart, even tracking contrib module updates is taken care of.

Confidently deploy updates

Every single site has access to Dev, Test and Live environments. When deploying updates, they can be fully tested in an environment that is identical to the Live environment and includes your latest content. Even when database updates are required, the Global Edge Cache ensures that site visitors never experience any downtime.

Dev  Test  Live

Every site comes with three identical environments and automated workflows to move code and content.

Achieve peace of mind when deploying updates. 

Pricing

Step 1: Pick your partnership level

 

Level 1

$1,200/year

Level 2

$2,400/year

Level 3

$3,600/year

Number of Sites Up to 10 Up to 25 Up to 50
Platform support hours Up to 20 hours Up to 40 hours Up to 60 hours

Step 2: Hosting plans are paid for by UITS based on the following criteria

  Basic
(90% of sites)
Performance - Small
 
Performance - Medium
 
Performance - Large
 
Monthly Visits Up to 25,000 Up to 25,000
Note: Same as Basic
Up to 50,000 Up to 150,000
Max domains 5 10 15 35
Storage 20 GBs 30 GBs 50GB 100GB
Application Memory Limit 256 MB 256 MB 512 MB 512 MB
HTTPS Included Included Included Included
Edge Cache Included Included Included Included
PHP Workers 4 8 16 24
Redis Object Cache   Yes Yes Yes
Faceted Search   Yes Yes Yes
New Relic Monitoring   Yes Yes Yes
Subsidized Cost $250/year $960/year $2,040/year $3,840/year

Optional: Set up Advanced CDN

Only available to Partners, our Advanced CDN allows us to set custom configuration to handle advanced page caching, custom WAF rules, sub-domain masking, additional domains, redirects at the edge and more.

Pricing is simple and tied to the site plan that the configuration is needed for.

 

Basic

$120/year

Performance - Small

$240/year

Performance - Medium

$480/year

Performance - Large

$960/year

Custom Rules Supported 1 2 3 4
Origins allowed Up to 2 Up to 3 Up to 4 Up to 5
Varnish Config Snippets Supported Supported Supported Supported
Custom Redirect Dictionary Supported Supported Supported Supported
Sub-domain Masking Supported Supported Supported Supported

Staff Requirements for Partner Program

You must have developers on staff or have a support contract with an external vendor that can maintain all of your sites.


Site Requirements for Hosting in Pantheon

  • We will require annual verification from you that each of your sites is still needed in the upcoming year.
  • Faculty websites will not be eligible for Pantheon hosting. Please consider our Arizona Faculty Sites service (http://sites.arizona.edu) for these sites instead.

Considerations for Low Traffic or Stale Websites

  • Sites that get fewer than 100 monthly visits
  • Sites that haven't had their content updated in more than a year

Many people believe that the best way to get visibility for your project is to have a standalone website.  In fact, small standalone websites with modest traffic typically never rise to the top in Google's search ranking, making this content difficult for users to find. Adding your content to a relevant website that itself is receiving higher traffic is the fastest and easiest way to help your web content become visible to a wider audience.

Before you request a standalone website, consider consulting with your Designated Marketing Lead to strategize about the most effective way to communicate your message on the web.

If you administer a larger website Campus Web Services can help you create unique permissions on your site to allow for editors to access only pages that you want them to. If not, we can help connect you to site owners that do.

Let's Connect

If you are considering a hosting partnership, you probably have questions.  And we have answers.  Complete the form at the link below to set up an initial consult with members of our team.

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