Case Study: YAAB achieves rapid launch of four scalable Middle East news sites with Acquia Cloud

YAAB building major news source in Middle East

YAAB (Yet Another Amazing Business) is an Amman-based digital media startup aiming to become a major online news hub in the Middle East by designing and launching four distinct media sites in 18 months. Key challenges included tight deadlines, the need for mobile-friendly publishing, and a requirement for high reliability and scalability to avoid downtime during traffic spikes.

YAAB chose Drupal for its modular content capabilities and Acquia Cloud (with Acquia Network) for secure, Drupal-ready hosting, deployment automation, monitoring, and support. With this stack YAAB launched Yakhabar.com on schedule and is building three more sites; Acquia’s 99.95% uptime and on-demand scaling ensure sites stay available during traffic surges while simplifying management and reducing total cost of ownership.

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Ammar Kurabi

General Manager