Case Study: Eat Smart, Move More, Weigh Less achieves HIPAA‑compliant, crash‑free holiday reliability with Liquid Web

Health Site Turns to Liquid Web for HIPAACompliant Holiday Reliability

North Carolina State University’s public health program, led online by Sarah Myer, runs esmmweighless.com to offer a free holiday weight‑maintenance challenge. The site repeatedly faced outages when seasonal traffic spiked and needed HIPAA‑compliant hosting to protect users’ health data, so Myer required a reliable, secure hosting partner that could handle surges without slowing service or risking compliance.

Liquid Web migrated the service to dedicated HIPAA servers and provided enterprise‑level support, including a single account executive to coordinate the move. Since the migration the site hasn’t crashed, monthly traffic grew from about 20,000 to 27,000 (a 35% year‑over‑year increase), and the team was able to upgrade and expand other sites once sensitive data was separated onto the HIPAA environment.

Eat Smart, Move More, Weigh Less

Sarah Myer

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