Drupal Hosting on Acquia delivers a flexible, scalable, and secure hosting infrastructure for your Drupal-based website.
Through a partnership with Acquia, University IT offers this cloud-based platform to web developers and administrators building and maintaining complex, highly customized websites.
Just starting out with a new website? Take a look at the free, centrally-supported Stanford Sites content management platform.
Features
Choose between two service options for website hosting: Acquia Cloud Professional and Acquia Cloud Enterprise. Both services deliver a complete infrastructure to support Drupal deployment workflow processes from development and staging to production.
See more information on Acquia.com.
Acquia Cloud Professional (ACP)
- A self-service Drupal hosting environment.
- Built for developing and deploying one or more production applications.
- Designed for websites that do not have business continuity requirements provided by redundant infrastructure.
Acquia Cloud Enterprise (ACE)
- A fully-managed, high-availability, scalable, clustered Drupal hosting environment.
- Built for the most complex Drupal applications with the highest performance and uptime requirements.
- ACE users have the option to purchase ACE Elite, which provides direct access to the Acquia support team in addition to 24x7 support.
Feature Comparison
| Feature | Acquia Cloud Professional (ACP) | Acquia Cloud Enterprise (ACE) |
|---|---|---|
| Supports complex websites and customization | Included | Included |
| Support for Drupal 10+ | Included | Included |
| Broad developer UIs and APIs | Included | Included |
| Automated deployment from a version-controlled code repository | Included | Included |
| Secure server access using SSH | Included | Included |
| Fully managed platform | Included | |
| Business continuity through redundant infrastructure | Included | |
| Protected by SWS-managed Acquia Cloud Edge (WAF) | Included | |
| Support | Business hours (8 a.m. - 8 pm. CST) |
24x7 |
Drupal Hosting on Acquia does not include website development or maintenance. These services can be provided by Stanford Web Services on a fee basis, or by your web development team.
Designed for
- Stanford units with complex Drupal websites that need a hosting solution.
Data security
This service has NOT been approved for use with data classified as High Risk by the Information Security Office.
Rates
| Service Option | MONTHLY RECURRING CHARGE (Base Cost) |
|---|---|
| Acquia Cloud Professional | Starting at $455/month* - note: this service is deprecated |
| Acquia Cloud Enterprise / Acquia Cloud Next | Starting at $960/month* |
*Monthly rate includes the base level of hardware infrastructure. Additional/larger hardware may be required based on traffic and other resource needs, and will incur additional cost.
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