Case Study: Northwestern University achieves secure, high-performance, flexible WordPress hosting and campus publishing with Pagely

Northwestern University - Customer Case Study

Northwestern University, a private research university with campuses in Evanston, Chicago and Doha, needed a way to let campus organizations easily manage and publish WordPress sites without the sprawl and security exposure created by many independently managed instances. Their prior hosting solution could not support certain plugins, themes, and custom configurations required by high-profile sites and research applications, so Northwestern turned to Pagely for a more flexible, secure managed WordPress platform.

Pagely implemented a managed WordPress environment (running on AWS tooling) that lets Northwestern syndicate content from a single networked location to museum-quality interactive displays, supports custom researcher-built applications, and preserves the maintenance, security, performance and uptime the university requires—all in a cost-effective way. Pagely’s platform enabled Northwestern to run feature-demanding sites outside the constraints of their previous host while meeting measurable goals around performance, uptime and security and simplifying publishing and support for campus users.

Northwestern University

Harlan Wallach

Associate Director of Media & Design