Site Factory and Drupal
Site Factory is built using Drupal. However, it provides additional tools and
services to help you focus on building sites, instead of how to build
sites.
The following list explains some of the differences between Site Factory and a
stock Drupal website:
- Hosting and monitoring - Site Factory provides a high-availability
hosting and monitoring infrastructure across multiple web servers, with
Varnish® caching and replicated database servers. An operations team is on
call 24/7 to test your site and keep it up-to-date with all the relevant
updates and security patches. All of this is based on the same Cloud
Platform Enterprise infrastructure
that powers and protects some of the largest and most active Drupal sites in
the world. With Site Factory, you can stop worrying about site speed, site
traffic, disk space, up-time, and backups.
- Single sign-on, multisite management - Instead of signing in to
multiple websites, if they’re on Site Factory, sign in once
to Site Factory to sign in to all of them. This helps users
reduce the number of accounts and passwords they have to keep track
of, and it allows Site Factory website administrators to view
and manage all of their websites from a single interface.
- Acquia Support - Site Factory provides you with access to
Acquia support, providing you with professional Drupal support and
how-to guidance, even for custom CSS. Accounts are also entitled to
support tickets, where they can have one-on-one private support
conversations.
- Open software-as-a-service (SaaS) - There’s no vendor lock-in
with Site Factory. If you decide that you want to move your website to
another hosting service, or even host it yourself, you can export your website at any time.