Thank you to our guest author, Brian Degnan, PhD. for contributing his experience after a battle with Rackspace, Fileconveyor, Drupal, Linux, and inodes. :)
One of the coolest, but probably the least understood features of Pantheon’s cloud based Drupal platform is “SFTP Mode”. This article is all about SFTP Mode and why it is so useful.
We use Pantheon for most of our projects and it is quite wonderful to use. In particular, the multidev feature provided by the Business+ level hosting is a "must have" for development teams. Not only do you get the standard dev => test => live development workflow, you also get separate sandboxed dev sites for each of your developers to work in.
