Case Study: Examiner.com achieves a scalable, community-driven social publishing platform with Acquia

Examiner.com is Revolutionizing The Online Media Market Through Open Source Social Publishing

Examiner.com is a rapidly growing, community-driven online news network serving 240 North American markets with over 42,000 local contributors. Its original ColdFusion/SQL Server platform could not keep pace with scale, innovation or search and performance needs, and proprietary server licensing added substantial cost.

To address this, Examiner.com migrated to Drupal 7 with a hybrid MySQL/MongoDB architecture and hired Cyrve to manage a complex, incremental migration of millions of articles, comments and media. The move — supported by enhancements to the Drupal migrate workflow and Drush, plus careful URL-preservation — delivered faster page loads and SEO, easier publishing for contributors, higher engagement, elimination of costly server licenses (saving hundreds of thousands in year one) and a reusable Drupal-based solution for other media outlets.

Examiner.com

Michael Myers

CTO