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Drupal Hosting Without Vendor Lock-In: Own Your Cloud, Keep Your Workflow

Drupal Brief Season 2026 Episode 43

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Drupal hosting is no longer just about keeping a site online. For serious Drupal teams, the bigger question is control.

In this episode, we break down why traditional managed Drupal hosting can create long-term vendor lock-in, rising costs, and limited infrastructure flexibility. We also look at the alternative: running Drupal on AWS, Azure, DigitalOcean, OVH, or your own cloud while still keeping the workflows teams expect -- Dev, Test, Live environments, CI/CD, Composer, Drush, backups, SSL, monitoring, logs, and support.

You’ll learn why Drupal teams need more than a basic hosting provider, how cloud ownership changes the conversation, and how DevPanel gives organizations a way to keep control without forcing developers to become full-time DevOps engineers.

For agencies, higher education, government, nonprofits, and enterprise teams managing mission-critical Drupal sites, this episode explores a better path: your cloud, your infrastructure, your control -- with the managed workflows your team needs to move faster.

Additional sources:

Blog: https://www.devpanel.com/blog/drupal-hosting-without-vendor-lock-in/

Video: https://youtu.be/Uj1bN1ZHkY0

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