Pantheon is a WebOps platform that helps marketing and development teams to build best-in-class WordPress and Drupal sites with agile workflows, scalable infrastructure, and a lightning-fast content delivery network.

Pantheon powers over 300,000 sites, hosts over 700,000 and is trusted by thousands of marketing and development teams around the world. 

Marketing teams use Pantheon to easily publish content with Drupal and WordPress content management delivered as a service, iterate on new features, and improve global site performance.

Developers use Pantheon to streamline workflows with Pantheon's development tools, support sites with 99.99% uptime, and manage multiple websites.

As an Enterprise WebOps solution, performance metrics including uptime, scalability, and speed are central to their mission. 

However, like millions of other enterprise websites built on other platforms, Pantheon-hosted websites similarly face both infrastructural challenges and code-based incompatibility challenges in China.

Code-based incompatibility

Like the majority of foreign websites, Pantheon sites use a number of inaccessible or slow resources(e.g. Facebook, YouTube, Google, Amazon S3 assets etc.). This often renders websites broken, if not unusable.

Even if these resources are removed, it would come at the compromise of functionality for the rest of the websites’ visitors outside of China.

Infrastructural incompatibility

Pantheon’s default Content Delivery Network (CDN) CDN is Fastly. While Fastly is a leading CDN globally, it nonetheless is not optimal for China.

The Drupal and WordPress ecosystems are also best known for the diverse themes and plugins made available to developers. As these 3rd-party resources are managed with varying degrees of compatibility in mind, Drupal and WordPress sites - hosted with Pantheon or otherwise - are prone to performance issues in China.

Pantheon & Chinafy are official tech partners

As Chinafy specialises in addressing both code-based and infrastructural incompatibilities specific to China, WordPress and Drupal users on Pantheon can continue to use Pantheon, WordPress and Drupal as they normally would - without having to worry about whether that website performs well in China.