Case Study: UCAS achieves greater web stability and scalability with Acquia Cloud Platform

UCAS - Customer Case Study

UCAS, the UK Universities and Colleges Admissions Service, needed to modernize its website and admissions platform as application volumes and web traffic kept rising. Its in-house content management system and on-premises hosting were struggling to keep up, especially during peak periods in August when stability issues affected access to critical information for students, institutions, and advertisers.

UCAS chose Acquia Cloud Platform and Drupal to support a move to the cloud with a fully managed, scalable solution. Acquia handled the migration, platform management, and ongoing support, reducing UCAS’s maintenance burden and improving reliability; the site has had no unplanned outages since deployment, while handling about 110 million hits and sustaining high satisfaction scores, including 92% from applicants and 95% from advisers.

UCAS

Andy Irving

Head of Technology Transition