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The issue I had on Pantheon was already mentioned previously. Then, I would try to migrate directly from the Drupal 6 multidev site to the Drupal 9 sandbox site without using my local machine. My thought was that I would create a Drupal 9 sandbox and also create a 'migration multidev' for my Drupal 6 site. Pantheon allows a small number of free sandboxes to be created for each account. Since I already have a Pantheon account and my site is hosted on Pantheon, I logged in and went to create a new 'sandbox'. Of these 'Big Four', I have the most experience with Pantheon, and I've always enjoyed their workflow and tools. Source: Screenshot of Pantheon.io Home Page I reviewed companies in the following order.

Unfortunately, I found each of the providers had some user experience (UX) or developer (DX) issues when attempting to evaluate Drupal 9.

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I went to each of these 'Big Four' hosting companies websites to see if: 1) they supported Drupal 9, and 2) there was a free trial for me to test it. Then, it will be very simple to jump to Drupal 9 when they flip the switch.

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If you have an existing site, Pantheon's advice is to upgrade your site to the latest version of Drupal 8.9 and make sure your site is completely compatible with Drupal 9. Pantheon has a way to test Drupal 9 on a 'multidev' (testing site) but doesn't have official support yet.Īt the time of writing, Pantheon Co-Founder Josh Koenig said via Twitter that Drupal 9 should be supported by Pantheon within the next few months in time for Drupal 9.1. When I checked the status of Drupal 9 support by these 'Big Four', I found that Drupal 9 was officially supported by Acquia, Amazee.io, and Platform.sh. When I started on this, I looked at 4 of the most popular Drupal managed hosting companies: Acquia, Amazee.io, Pantheon, and Platform.sh. If the client was already using something 'cheap' like InMotion or Bluehost, I would try (usually in vain) to get them to switch to a more robust managed hosting provider. I've almost always used Pantheon or Acquia hosting for client Drupal projects. If your favorite hosting provider isn't covered here, let me know and I might do a follow up post.

In this post, I'll discuss my initial impressions of surveying some of the biggest Drupal managed hosting companies. Yes, Pantheon supports Drupal 6! Maybe they don't want me to advertise that though. One of the first steps of my migration process was to figure out where to host my Drupal 9 site. I just started the process of preparing my Drupal 6 (!) site for migrating to Drupal 9.

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