Creating a website with Pantheon requires four steps:
- Secure your website by ensuring it is behind U-M Cloudflare (strongly recommended in order to reduce Pantheon rate plan costs).
- Create an U-M Pantheon website sandbox .
- Build or migrate your Wordpress/Drupal website content in the U-M Pantheon sandbox.
- Publish the completed U-M Pantheon website by selecting a rate plan.
For details and step-by-step instructions, refer to:
What to expect
All websites start on the Sandbox plan, which is free. With this plan you can:
- Access your empty Dev, Test, and Live environments.
- Build your site content or migrate existing site content.
- Test functionality to ensure your site works as desired.
When you are ready to publish the website (i.e., make it accessible through a non-Pantheon domain name), you will choose the paid plan you want for the website based on your anticipated traffic levels.
- If your website won’t have a lot of traffic and you don’t want any of the enterprise features, choose Basic.
- Otherwise, choose Performance Small, which comes with Overage Protection, and move to the size plan your website needs after 2–3 months.
- Refer to the Pricing page for detailed information about plans and rates.
Unit Responsibilities
- Provide a valid Shortcode to rebill Pantheon website costs.
- Provide Themes/Templates or Designs.
- Develop, test, and maintain web content.
- Ensure websites are secure and Accessibility compliant.
- Comply with university data management and security policies, particularly with sensitive data.
- Maintain the MCommunity Group that will be used to control who can manage the website hosting.