Case Study: Drugs.com achieves 100% availability and scalable performance with Akamai Technologies

Drugs.com achieves unfailing performance and security with Akamai

Drugs.com, the largest independent online source of pharmaceutical and medical information (also operating Medicine.com), needed to scale as it expanded globally and to protect revenue tied to search rankings and ad traffic. The company faced frequent, massive traffic spikes that threatened uptime, page speed and security—challenges that could drive users away and harm ad revenue if origin servers couldn’t keep up.

Drugs.com deployed Akamai’s integrated edge platform—including Front End Optimization, Ion, NetStorage, Image & Video Manager, Edge DNS, Kona Site Defender and Enterprise Application Access—to move content and caching to the edge, speed pages, and block attacks. The result: uninterrupted availability during surges, the ability to double traffic without growing origin infrastructure, seamless absorption of sudden spikes (e.g., a 75% jump), simplified operations, and continued strong search visibility for its ~30 million monthly users.

Drugs.com

Nick Le Mouton

Chief Technology Officer