Posted by erasepoverty on April 20, 2012 at 3:26pm
Has anyone had any experience using www.getpantheon.com to manage the release process with Drupal? Pros? Cons?
We have setup a test site, and are very excited by the potential. But are having trouble with Cufon rendering correctly on Pantheon. We have spent countless hours and can't seem to overcome it.
Would appreciate feedback on experience with Pantheon. And if you happen to be well-versed in Pantheon and could share insight on this Cufon issue, I'd be so grateful!
Thank you for your input and help!
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I'm using Pantheon on a 2
I'm using Pantheon on a 2 sites. - One is for work and one is a collaborative charity thing.. The biggest challenge is overcoming the fact that you don't as much control over the location and permissions of the sites/default/ folder as you're used to - and what looks right/works on your local won't match the pantheon profile. You have to be really careful as to what you check into git since roving symlinks make it work on the server. This is probably why cufon isn't firing.
Also I had an issue when trying to manually update to 6.25 before it was available through Pantheon. Lesson there was just wait for their update and do it through the UI.
In my experience the support staff is super-responsive - especially to issues like the one you listed. I would send them a message and they'll probably fix the issue for you.
Two negatives are that Pantheon only looks at your master git branch and drush make files are out of the question. (Someone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong about either of those things.)
As for the rest, Pantheon works as advertised. Transferring content and code up and down the chain is easy peasy once you let it do its thing.
Check file system settings
I have a hunch that your cufon fonts want to live in the sites/default/files directory, and that Pantheon's non-standard way of placing and referring to files interferes. Take a look at your Drupal instance's file upload and file system configurations on Pantheon, and revisit cufon's configuration.
Taking a step back, I'm afraid you're painting yourself into a corner with cufon. Now that HTML5 @font-face has somewhat settled and standardized the typeface issue, earlier non-standard solutions like cufon are probably rapidly loosing support and you will feel more and more pain as you go. If I were you I'd carefully evaluate whether cufon is what you want to stick with.
Same holds for any other Drupal module which requires third-party libraries to work. You add two dependencies to your web site: The contrib module itself, and the third-party library, both of which can break or go away. Hence, your risk quadruples. Food for thought.
Back to Pantheon: As Zakiya stated, we love Pantheon so far. You have to wrap your mind around the fact that it is not a standard LAMP environment with its usual controls. Instead of the L (Linux) you have a process space with extremely limited controls, and instead of A (apache) there is varnish/nginx. Even at the MySQL and PHP layers you get near zero controls. But what is there - preconfigured for you - is first rate and works extremely well for a 1.0 revision.
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Christoph Weber
i'm using getPantheon for 2
i'm using getPantheon for 2 sites currently, and i can say that i'm really happy with their service
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