Pantheon raises $21.5 million to expand its web hosting platform

You’d think that applications like Drupal and WordPress would be as easy to deploy as they are to use. After all, these two are the two leading open source content management systems used for business websites. WordPress in particular powers many millions of blogs around the world and it’s an eminently usable solution. Between the two of them, these solutions power over 50% of business CMS websites globally today. So you’d think actually setting it up would be to, right? You’d also think that running applications on top of cloud infrastructure should be pretty easy these days, right? With all these automation platforms and more and more of the technical nitty gritty being abstracted away from application owners, it should just work, right? Well if you believe Pantheon’s story, the reality is very different. Pantheon, founded in 2010, is a website hosting platform.