Case Study: Pantheon achieves 99.95% uptime and 40% infrastructure cost savings with Google Cloud Platform

Pantheon Evolving operations for mission critical websites

Pantheon, a website operations and hosting platform that powers more than 200,000 WordPress and Drupal sites, faced growing strain on its bare‑metal virtual servers as traffic and enterprise customers expanded. The company needed smoother, more scalable container management, better networking and analytics, and higher reliability to support larger customers and tighter SLAs.

Pantheon migrated 200,000+ sites to Google Cloud Platform in two weeks with zero customer impact, adopting Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, BigQuery and managed data services. The move boosted performance and reliability (sites run ~45% faster vs. benchmarks), increased container density, raised availability to a 99.95% SLA, cut cloud infrastructure costs by 40%, and unlocked real‑time analytics and ML capabilities for future offerings.

Pantheon

Niall Hayes

COO