Liquid Web vs. Pantheon

Liquid Web

Pantheon

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Liquid Web	Score 8.0 out of 10	N/A	Liquid Web is a fully managed hosting service, boasting VPS hosting on the Storm Platform, and cloud dedicated hosting on the Storm Platform. Liquid Web supports managed WordPress, managed WooCommerce, VMware Private Cloud, as well as HIPAA and PCI compliant hosting, high availability database hosting, and dedicated or server clusters available for a variety of purposes, as well as websites.	$19 per month
Pantheon	Score 8.6 out of 10	N/A	Pantheon is a WebOps platform where marketers and developers collaborate to drive results. The vendor states that with Pantheon, site owners maximize their capacity to update website design and functionality, responding to market trends, catering to consumer behavior, and adding real value to the business's bottom line. Today, companies compete on the basis of digital experiences, and the best results emerge from an agile build-test-learn process. Whether it's publishing content,…	$29 per month

Pricing

Liquid Web

Pantheon

Editions & Modules

Managed WordPress: $19
per month
Managed WooCommerce: $19
per month
VPS: $35
per month
Magenta Cloud: $49
per month
Cloud Dedicated: $149
per month
Private VPS Parent: $149
per month
Dedicated: $169
per month
Cloud Servers: $265
per month
HIPPA: $343
per month
Server Clusters: $743
per month
High Performance: 1,127
per month
High Availability: 1,448
per month
Database Hosting: 1,498
per month
VMware Private Cloud: 1,599
per month

Basic: $29
per month
Performance: $114
per month
Elite: Contact for quote

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Liquid Web	Pantheon
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Optional

Additional Details

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More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	Liquid Web	Pantheon
Considered Both Products	Liquid Web Kaushik Somaiya Owner Chose Liquid Web Liquid Web is more professional than all of them. The main reason is the rock solid support which is 24/7 available. Whenever we contact with queries, the solution is guaranteed. There is no need to create support tickets, all the queries gets solved over live chat. Incentivized Helpful? Francisco Mosse Director Chose Liquid Web In the last 20 years I used, between 5 and 10 hosting companies from Argentina, Canada, and USA. The best is Liquidweb. What I love from them is their support. I always know that I can send a ticket and in a short time (sometimes just minutes) I will have a reply. If I need … Incentivized Helpful? Lindsay Halsey Co-Founder Chose Liquid Web Liquid-Web is miles ahead of GoDaddy and Network Solutions in terms of customer support. It's a pleasure to speak with the Liquid-Web team and we've needed to reach out to support far less often after the shift to Liquid Web. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Liquid Web We evaluated Kinsta and WPEngine. Both offer great platforms but the lack of solid phone support and the substantial difference in server resource allocation made Liquid Web a clear winner. Incentivized Helpful? Tim Sleeper Web Developer Search Engine Optimization Chose Liquid Web The only other serious contender was DigitalOcean. Media Temple and GoDaddy are both terrible. While I liked DigitalOcean and the amount of flexibility it offered, we opted for a managed solution to lighten the workload for us. So, in the end, we picked Liquid-Web and we have … Incentivized Helpful? Chris Putnam Senior Web Developer Chose Liquid Web For me, Liquid-Web is the best overlap of: - Web hosting standardized Tools & Software - Quality Product (Reliable, Well-Performing) Incentivized Helpful?	Pantheon Tyler Brown Cifu Shuster Chief Engineer Chose Pantheon Acquia was terrible. We use DigitalOcean for some all-purpose computing needs and Platform.sh for an application that does more computing and high-throughput processing where we do not want page views (API calls) to count against our usage. Incentivized Helpful? Lankit Patel AWS Developer \| Laravel Developer Chose Pantheon Although it may seem a good fit for a company that needs extra control over the deployment process and development process, for a firm that is mainly concentrating on SEO, it would be an overkill. Pantheon provides that sweet automation that allows us to shed some weight on … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Pantheon We use several hosting solutions depending on the client needs or what they were already setup on. Pantheon is very similar to them and offers similar services however one of the main features we use is the Multidev service which allows us to test pieces of work separately and … Incentivized Helpful? Naz Haque Google Consultant Chose Pantheon I found Cloudways to be a better solution for our needs in comparison to Pantheon. With their integration of multiple hosting providers we had a wider selection of locations to choose from and finally a server nearer to our core audience. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Pantheon Pantheon dashboard is leaner and faster. Pantheon cost is lower comparatively. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Pantheon Linode is good if you want to keep control of the infrastructure, webservers, etc. However, if you want to forget about it and focus in your website content; Pantheon will make your life much easier. acquia support system is terrible, it is slow and they send outdated … Incentivized Helpful? Tyler Shingleton Senior Web Developer Chose Pantheon The differentiating advantage that Pantheon has is the incredibly intuitive workflow UI, with seamless GIT integrations between each environment: Dev, Test, and Live. Incentivized Helpful? Sachin Vinay Network Administrator Chose Pantheon Much more comfortable with Pantheon, more user-friendly and completely moved to the next generation development tools. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Pantheon Pantheon stacks up fairly equally, and we chose Pantheon originally because, at the time of making our decision, they were the best partner for our business size, and who could help us through challenges that VIP could not. Today, we are with VIP as that was a faster and more … Incentivized Helpful? Simon Johnson DevOps Engineer Chose Pantheon Pantheon unlike the above platforms is very easy to use the features and even on initial features configuration and also the deployment on Cloud is excellent. Pantheon has great data and other marketing content management capabilities through Cloud services and the … Incentivized Helpful? Quratulain Habib, PMP Partner / Director / Head of Projects Chose Pantheon A lot of the other providers on this list are different from each other with very different target audiences. The only thing Pantheon can compare with is managed WordPress hosting, WordPress-related support, and hosting on Google Compute Engine. Pantheon wins hands down in … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Pantheon Weebly, Bluehost and SiteGround Incentivized Helpful? Todd Underwood Interactive Director Chose Pantheon GoDaddy can't compete with Pantheon's speed, support, and backed tools. We built a WordPress site for a client in Pantheon, they insisted on us moving it to their existing GoDaddy account, and within three months, they paid us to move it back to Pantheon because of the site's … Incentivized Helpful? CW Caleb Wiedel Web Developer Chose Pantheon Pantheon is great because I can do everything and anything needed as a developer to get my clients satisfied. Drupal is the main CMS we use on Pantheon, and my experience has been pretty positive so far. I manage WordPress sites on my own, and that's easier to maintain for most … Incentivized Helpful? Ali shabaz Assistant Project Manager Chose Pantheon Microsoft Azure and GoDaddy Incentivized Helpful? BP Blake Pritchett Director of Technology Chose Pantheon Pantheon is leaps and bounds ahead of its competition in platform reliability, support, and platform features. The most important factor for us is uptime and support response times. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Pantheon Pantheon provides stellar premium hosting for Drupal and WordPress. The platform is highly performant. Support is responsive and knowledgeable. System-enforced best practices improve site stability alongside rock-solid platform reliability. However, Pantheon absolutely charges … Incentivized Helpful? Larry Downes Director Marketing and Communications Chose Pantheon Pantheon compares well with uptime but far exceeds RackSpace when it comes to ease of use. Incentivized Helpful? Jennifer Blair Creative Director and Owner Chose Pantheon Pantheon offers an advantage over WP Engine and Flywheel by offering hosting support for both Drupal and WordPress websites. Pantheon's pricing model could be much more competitive, however. Pantheon ended up winning out over Media Temple in World Literature Today's hosting … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Pantheon Our former hosting company was Dreamhost. While we loved Dreamhost, especially since it was free for nonprofits, we were always flying by the seat of our pants developing and updating plugins on the live website. Pantheon's multi-dev platform allows us to work on several … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Pantheon Pantheon's use of Git is much better than WP Engine, and Pantheon's interface is better. However, Pantheon costs more and would likely suit medium to larger organizations. GoDaddy's dedicated WordPress offering is much more restrictive compared with Pantheons and suits … Incentivized Helpful? Gabrielle Conley Web Designer Chose Pantheon Pantheon has been only the product I have had experience within my entire working career. It performs effectively with great ROI on the overall production of our company. The deployment process was easy, and all our team members had less time learning how it operates. I have … Incentivized Helpful? Sienna Miller Software Engineer Chose Pantheon I have no experience with similar products though Pantheon has proven to be the best WebOps. It has all tools that we require in website infrastructure from development to launching. Our teamwork has enabled us to create websites that have boosted the growth of our organization … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Pantheon Bluehost, GoDaddy and Microsoft Azure Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Pantheon Bluehost, GoDaddy and Microsoft Azure Incentivized Helpful?

Best Alternatives
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Small Businesses	Flywheel Score 9.9 out of 10	ManageWP Score 10.0 out of 10
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Enterprises	Pantheon Score 8.6 out of 10	Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization Score 8.6 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Liquid Web	Pantheon
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	9.8 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	10.0 (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Liquid Web	Pantheon
Likelihood to Recommend	LiquidWeb is web suited for small and large companies as they offer VPS and dedicated servers, from small to very big servers if you need lot of CPU, RAM or disk. Incentivized Francisco Mosse Director Read full review	Great Cloud-based coordination platform which offers the team excellent capabilities on easy workflow management, multiple project activity tracking and easy to monitor all the project assets from one desk. Pantheon offers the best content management tools, strategic on development project life cycle management is excellent and the reporting features with Pantheon are effective and useful real-time data analytical capability. Incentivized Arianna Thomas Project Engineer Read full review
Pros	Phone support is somewhat rare, but rapid, knowledgeable, and English-speaking phone support is rarer still. Liquid Web ticks all these boxes and more. Easy staging environments. Partnership with iThemes for complete site management. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Effective use of our codebase deployment and implementation. The dashboard functionality and general stability and security are excellent. The server is quite consistent, and if you need assistance from the support team, they are very quick to respond. Automatic updates let me ensure that my customers have safe websites without increasing my own expense. The team offers excellent assistance and help for chat. Incentivized Ali shabaz Assistant Project Manager Read full review
Cons	The only con I can think of is Liquid-Web is more expensive, but it is a managed VPS so the price is on par with other similar services. There are some cheaper managed VPS plans out there, but in my experience, those often come with mediocre support and periodic server issues. Incentivized Tim Sleeper Web Developer Search Engine Optimization Read full review	Pricing structure has too large of a jump between Basic and Performance plans Have run into issues with prescribed WP updates not working through dashboard and having to do manually. Pantheon site dashboard occasionally is unavailable (the site is never affected though) Incentivized Todd Underwood Interactive Director Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	No answers on this topic	The environment is stable and we have not had any issues/downtime. The annual cost is reasonable. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	No answers on this topic	Monitoring of project development is very easy using a dashboard with its integration capability, showing all processes in a single screen which is easy to use and also easy to navigate through. A powerful tool that allows testing to be carried on without the user noticing any changes to the system and a highly interactive tool for groups and project members. Incentivized Lily Adams Software Engineer Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	Even tier 1 Pantheon chat and ticket support are knowledgeable, competent, and useful. They routinely understand and promptly resolve urgent, complex, and/or unusual issues that other hosts need to escalate to tier 2 or tier 3 support personnel. I honestly can't think of a truly negative or disappointing support experience in the years I've used Pantheon hosting for client websites. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Implementation Rating	No answers on this topic	Once the environments were up and running, the implementation was easy to synchronize with latest data prior to switchover. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Liquid Web is more professional than all of them. The main reason is the rock solid support which is 24/7 available. Whenever we contact with queries, the solution is guaranteed. There is no need to create support tickets, all the queries gets solved over live chat. The organization backend is strong. Servers are costly but good. Incentivized Kaushik Somaiya Owner Read full review	Acquia was terrible. We use DigitalOcean for some all-purpose computing needs and Platform.sh for an application that does more computing and high-throughput processing where we do not want page views (API calls) to count against our usage. Incentivized Tyler Brown Cifu Shuster Chief Engineer Read full review
Return on Investment	Positive! Our team voted moving our websites to Liquid Web as a top 3 decision/change made in 2018. Time! We save time managing and maintaining our website thanks to Liquid Web. Incentivized Lindsay Halsey Co-Founder Read full review	Pantheon allows ordinary sites to excel esp if there is consistent development going on behind the scenes. Website management is super easy and the hosting fee gets paid off as you save on developer hours. Expensive for those who are not consistently developing on the platform, there are other options out there at better price points. Incentivized Quratulain Habib, PMP Partner / Director / Head of Projects Read full review
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