Case Study: Al-Masry Al-Youm achieves stable, scalable 24/7 news delivery with Acquia Cloud (Acquia)

Al-Masry Al-Youm attains stability with Acquia Cloud

Al-Masry Al-Youm, Egypt’s largest independent daily, delivers timely journalism and a community-driven news platform but faced critical infrastructure challenges during the 2011 political upheaval. With traffic surging around the first democratic elections and a major outage days before the vote, the paper needed a highly available, secure site—downtime was not an option.

Acquia accelerated the migration to Acquia Cloud and deployed a dedicated support team to stabilize the site within 24 hours, then provided ongoing tools and services (Acquia Network, Insight, New Relic, SEO Grader) to improve performance and security. The result is a stable, scalable platform supporting additional sites like sharek.almasryalyoum.com, enabling continued growth and a long-term partnership built on reliability and confidence.

Al-Masry Al-Youm

Hossam Bayoumy

Project Manager