Case Study: Her Campus achieves scalable growth and improved site performance with Acquia

Her Campus Turns to Acquia for Support and Drupal Expertise

Her Campus Media, launched in 2009, is a Boston-based media brand for college women with a lean team of 20+ employees and a network of about 9,000 student contributors across 300+ campuses, publishing more than 350 articles daily. The company needed an affordable, flexible CMS and hosting partner that editors could use with minimal training and that could withstand unpredictable viral traffic spikes; early hosting caused frequent, extended downtime that hindered growth.

After returning to Acquia in 2015, Her Campus benefited from Acquia’s Drupal expertise, tuned servers, selective Varnish cache control, Cloud Hooks, improved deployment/Git workflow, and a professional site audit, plus responsive support for infrastructure and application issues. The move improved stability and performance during traffic surges, supported audience growth to roughly 5–6 million monthly uniques, and led to a renewed contract and plans for a redesign and migration to Drupal 8.

Her Campus

Annie Wang

Chief Product Officer and Creative Director