Case Study: HousingWire.com achieves reliable uptime and faster page loads with Acquia Cloud

Housingwire.com rebuilds confidence with Acquia Cloud

HousingWire, a leading newswire for the U.S. housing finance market that grew from a 2005 blog into a high-traffic publisher, faced severe reliability issues as traffic topped a million monthly page views. WordPress and a misconfigured managed host could not handle database-heavy caching or Drupal load balancing after a replatform, forcing frequent server restarts and risking the company’s core revenue (about 80% comes from the site).

HousingWire moved to Acquia Cloud for a Drupal-tuned, fully managed hosting solution and completed the migration in three days. The site now enjoys reliable uptime, faster page loads, elastic capacity for big syndication spikes, responsive support, and a Development–Staging–Production workflow that enables Agile/continuous-integration practices—protecting revenue and restoring operational confidence.

Housingwire.com

Paul Jackson

Founder and CEO