DevPanel

Introducing DevPanel: Enterprise Drupal Hosting in Your Cloud Provider

A SaaS dashboard to develop, deploy, secure, and scale websites on your own AWS, Azure, DigitalOcean, or Kubernetes—without the DevOps pain.

TL; DR:

DevPanel is a secure, application‑agnostic DevOps + Hosting platform that runs inside your cloud account. It gives you a point‑and‑click control panel (like Acquia/Pantheon) while still allowing you to maintain full control and flexibility. Teams use DevPanel to automate infrastructure, standardize CI/CD, speed up releases, and slash hosting costs—all with root‑level access. DevPanel powers high‑profile initiatives (e.g., DrupalForge.org, GovCMS.com) and is the preferred platform for the Drupal Core AI team.
Why it matters: If you’re moving to cloud‑native (Kubernetes) or to a BYOC cloud model, then DevPanel is the must‑have layer that makes it fast, compliant, and risk-free.

What Is DevPanel?

DevPanel is a PaaS‑style dashboard that connects to your cloud account and automates everything from infrastructure provisioning to deployments, monitoring, and security. It’s CMS‑agnostic (Drupal, WordPress, Backdrop, custom apps) and cloud‑agnostic (AWS, Azure, GCP, DigitalOcean, on‑prem K8s). Unlike traditional hosts, everything lives in your account—so you keep data sovereignty, cost control, and freedom to customize.

Features & Functionality

Infrastructure & Deployments

• Auto‑scaling clusters & HA: Kubernetes‑powered scaling, high availability, DR patterns—all in your account.
• Blue/Green & zero‑downtime deploys: Safe rollouts, instant rollback; route by branch or tag.
• Branch/Tag‑based environments: Promote feature branches to full CBDEs (cloud‑based dev envs) with a click.

CI/CD & Dev Workflows

• Git‑native: Uses your own GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket repos as the source of truth. Webhooks keep DevPanel in sync.
• Your pipelines, your tools: Use built‑ins or bring GitHub Actions / GitLab CI / Bitbucket Pipelines / Jenkins / CircleCI.
• Automated testing gates: Run unit/E2E/security tests before promotion.
• Gitflow or Trunk‑based: Choose the branching model that fits your team.

Development Environments

• Built‑in Cloud IDE (VS Code in the browser): No local setup; instant onboarding for contractors & teams.
• Team workspaces: Isolated per‑branch dev sites with shared logs, terminals, and DB access.
• One‑click clone: Clone prod to stage/dev (DB + files) in minutes for realistic testing.

Resilience & Security

• Automated backups & restores with retention policies.
• Secrets manager & RBAC: Centralized secrets, per‑role permissions.
• Edge security‑ready: CDN/WAF/DDoS integrations; VPN access for high‑security projects.
• Compliance‑friendly: Built to support HIPAA, GDPR/CCPA, FedRAMP‑aligned patterns.

Cloud Control & Efficiency

• BYOC/BYOK8s: Deploy to AWS, Azure, DigitalOcean, or your own Kubernetes.
• Cost controls: Auto‑pause idle envs; right‑size nodes; use cloud credits and savings plans.
• First‑class observability: Centralized logs, metrics, and alerts.

AI & Advanced Tooling

• Public & Private AI integrations: OpenAI, Claude, Gemini—and BYOAI for private inference.
• AI‑ready dev: Use AI assistants inside cloud IDEs; ship AI‑enabled Drupal apps faster.

Application Templates System

• DevPanel’s Application Templates System is a templating engine that provides reusable starting points for projects.
• It makes building sites faster by letting teams capture features, themes, and demo data in shareable templates.
• Templates can be kept private, shared with teams, or contributed to the community for wider reuse.
• Build AI-enabled templates and we will include a free $1 AI API key, making it easy for others to demo your apps instantly.

DevPanel in Action: Case Studies

Voice of America

How a U.S. News Agency Scaled to 11M Daily Hits and 1M Spikes Per Minute with DevPanel on AWS
A U.S. government news agency needed to run one of the world’s busiest news sites, handling 11 million daily hits with the ability to instantly scale to over 1 million hits per minute during breaking news.

How Voice of America Projected $800K Annual Hosting Savings by Migrating from Acquia to AWS with DevPanel

AMA (Academy of Model Aeronautics)

Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA) – AWS Migration with DevPanel
AMA (Academy of Model Aeronautics): Consolidated 30+ Drupal/WordPress/Backdrop sites on AWS; now a single person runs all web ops—“DevPanel is like training wheels for AWS.”

HHS (AHEAD.HIV.gov)

How BCT Partners Solved a Mission-Critical DevOps Crisis in Just One Demo
BCT / HHS (AHEAD.HIV.gov): Team struggled for months to build secure AWS + CI/CD; DevPanel stood up dev/stage/prod with security in 17 minutes and standardized deployment pipelines.

Kaplan Early Learning

How Kaplan Early Learning Company Achieved a HIPAA-Compliant Azure Migration in Weeks with DevPanel
Kaplan Early Learning (Azure): HIPAA‑compliant multi‑env architecture delivered in weeks (not months); ~95% infra setup time saved via Terraform/HELM automation.

PHP.COM website

How a Nonprofit Cut Hosting Costs to $0 and Modernized Their Web Infrastructure with DevPanel + AWS
Parents Helping Parents (Nonprofit): Migrated from WP Engine to AWS; leveraged nonprofit credits; $0 out‑of‑pocket hosting, unlimited dev/stage envs, CDN+WAF, modern CI/CD.

How DevPanel Compares (to other Drupal Enterprise Hosting Companies )

• Ownership & control: Others host in their cloud; DevPanel runs in yours (root access, native services).
• Flexibility: CMS‑agnostic & multi‑cloud vs. opinionated stacks.
• Cost: Cloud cost + lightweight platform vs. premium PaaS tiers; typical 50–75% savings at scale.
• Scale & performance: K8s auto‑scaling + tailored caching/CDN; no plan ceilings.
• Extensibility: Plug any CI/CD, DB/search, security stack; open toolchain—not a black box.
• Hosting model: ALL other Drupal Enterprise Hosting Companies use shared hosting models. With DevPanel, you get dedicated hosting inside your own cloud account.

Benefits of Dedicated Hosting

• No noisy neighbor problem: Your workloads aren’t slowed by other customers on the same hardware.
• Stronger isolation: Better security boundaries and reduced cross-tenant risks.
• Privacy and compliance: Easier to meet strict regulatory requirements with dedicated resources.
• Performance consistency: Predictable compute and network performance under your control.
• Full customization: Freedom to configure infrastructure without shared-platform constraints.
• Choice of hosting location: Users select the country, region, or even city where their sites are hosted.

Benefits of Using DevPanel

• Dramatically lower TCO: Optimize raw cloud spend; avoid managed‑host markups.
• Speed & autonomy: Devs self‑serve environments; releases move from days → minutes.
• Security & compliance by design: Pre‑hardened patterns, RBAC, secrets, backups, auditability.
• Future‑proof & portable: Multi‑cloud, BYO tools, open standards; no platform dead‑ends.
• Happier teams: Zero local setup; consistent environments; less firefighting, more building.

Risks of Not Using DevPanel (Sticking to the Status Quo or Going DIY)

When teams leave traditional hosts, they typically: 1) stay with a managed platform, or 2) DIY cloud + DevOps. Both carry risks.

A) Staying with Traditional Vendors

• Lock‑in & premium pricing that grows with your portfolio.
• Ticket‑driven bottlenecks for simple tasks (new envs, patches, scale‑ups).
• Limited control/visibility (no root, “black box” performance).
• Compliance constraints tied to vendor regions/certifications.
• Slow innovation: limited AI/multi‑cloud/modern CI support.

B) Going DIY (AWS/Azure/GCP/K8s)

• Steep learning curve: Networking, IAM, SSL, K8s, backups, monitoring, hardening.
• Time & resource drain: Months of infra work vs. minutes with automation.
• Hidden costs: Over‑provisioning, outages, senior DevOps headcount.
• Security/compliance risk: Misconfigurations, missed patches, failed audits.
• Knowledge silos: Fragile setups tied to a couple of engineers.
• Slower delivery: Devs become sysadmins; feature velocity suffers.

Bottom line: DevPanel delivers the control of DIY with the convenience of a managed platform—without the downsides of either.

See DevPanel in Action (DrupalForge):

Want to feel the speed? Visit DrupalForge.org—spin up a Drupal dev site in ~5 seconds, fork templates, and explore AI‑enabled demos. DrupalForge is powered by DevPanel (and uses a limited feature set), proving how fast onboarding and scale can be.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ):

• What’s the uptime guarantee? You get up to 99.99% up time guarantee depending on your SLA.
• How is infrastructure support handled? Your infrastructure will be "fully managed" which means that you’ll never have to touch it (unless you want to).
• How is application support handled? Application support is generally best provided by your web development agency, who actually development the application. We generally provide 2nd level support to those app developers. However, you can also purchase application support directly from DevPanel as well.
• How does pricing work? DevPanel fees can be bundled with your AWS, Azure, or Digital Ocean fees so you only have to pay one bill or you can pay those bills separately.
• What level of control do I retain in my own cloud account? You own your cloud account, so you retain full control of it. Your websites keep running, just like before, even if you cancel your DevPanel subscription.