Case Study: Rijksmuseum achieves secure, high-performance, DDoS-resilient website with Leaseweb

Rijksmuseum - Customer Case Study

The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s national museum with a 1.3 million–item collection, relies on its website to make high-resolution, zoomable images and content widely accessible. Because site performance directly affects visitor engagement—and the site had been targeted by spammers, hackers and DDoS attacks—the museum needed a flexible, PHP-compatible hosting solution with dynamic load balancing and strong security.

Leaseweb provided a VMware private cloud on dedicated servers with dynamic load balancing, advanced firewalling and high-bandwidth networking, and handles hardware, virtualization, monitoring and backups. The result is a reliable, secure (and CO2‑neutral) hosting platform that mitigates DDoS and flash crowds, keeps the site responsive, and lets Rijksmuseum staff focus on their core mission.

Rijksmuseum

Rob Hendriks

IT Manager