Case Study: Qatar Living achieves reliable, secure hosting and frees up staff time with Acquia Cloud

Acquia Cloud Takes the Pain out of Web Hosting and Frees Up Resources for Qatar Living

Qatar Living, launched in 2005 and now the country’s largest online brand with about 800,000 registered members and nearly one million page views a day, was struggling to keep pace with rapid growth. The site experienced frequent downtime, security gaps, and heavy operational overhead that even required the Managing Director to spend roughly 20% of his time on hosting and devOps, limiting the team’s ability to respond quickly or develop new features.

By adopting Acquia Cloud’s managed Drupal hosting, Qatar Living gained automatic security patches, expert support, and the ability to run parallel environments for testing, freeing internal staff from routine maintenance. The move delivered significantly improved uptime and security, faster time-to-market for a major relaunch, and freed resources to create new revenue streams (such as promoted ads), improve editorial quality, and pursue mobile and premium offerings.

Qatar Living

Ash Bashir

Product Manager