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The services and information below are aimed at the Penn IT professionals. For getting IT support, please go to the Get IT Help section on this website.

Overview

ISC Web Services provides a suite of web hosting service offerings for University clients. Our primary service is hosting for Drupal and WordPress sites in partnership with Pantheon. Pantheon’s market-leading, container-based infrastructure provides greater security and stability than traditional shared hosting solutions. The Pantheon deployment tools greatly ease the process of deploying and maintaining websites. The University-negotiated contract with Pantheon provides additional services and protections beyond those provided by self-service hosting plans at a reduced cost.

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Benefits

The Pantheon hosting platform provides:

  • The Pantheon dashboard, which features market-leading deployment tools for Drupal and Wordpress
  • Separate Dev, Test, and Live environments for each site
  • A multi-dev mode that supports team development through the ability to provide additional development environments for a site
  • Git-managed Drupal and WordPress core code upstreams in order to ease deployment of core software updates
  • DNS, security certificates, PennKey authentication, and basic PennGroups integration are provided as part of the service at no additional cost

Target Audience

Schools, departments, centers, research groups, and individuals. To initiate service, please reach out to your local IT support provider, or contact ISC Client Care.

Funding Type

Rates

Pantheon Basic Tier

FY2025
$30.47
Per Month

Pantheon Performance Small Tier

FY2025
$119.77
Per Month

Pantheon Performance Medium Tier

FY2025
$216.42
Per Month

Pantheon Performance Large Tier

FY2025
$432.85
Per Month

Pantheon Performance XL Tier

FY2025
$721.76
Per Month

Pantheon Performance 2XL Tier

FY2025
$1046.40
Per Month

Elite

FY2025
$1,166.17
Per Month
Contact for more detail.

All Pantheon rates include development, test, and live environments with DNS and SSL for each environment. All service at the Performance tiers and above includes New Relic monitoring and Solr search. See Pantheon's rates pages for more detailed descriptions of their service tiers.

Requests for Web Hosting should be made through ISC Client Care.

ISC rate increases are generally aligned with University increases.

The ISC rate review process is timed to coincide with the University’s annual budgeting process. Rates are reviewed over the summer, and if any require a change, they are approved for the following fiscal year. ISC will make its best effort to communicate these changes to clients by the end of October to allow for budget updates. Exceptions may occasionally occur (e.g., a vendor changes a pass-through fee midyear), and when they do, ISC will do its best to provide as much lead time for clients as possible.

Questions & Support

Client Care

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