Case Study: Acompli achieves 10x faster response times with Pantheon for WordPress

How Acompli Got 10x Faster by Switching to Pantheon for WordPress

Acompli, a mobile email app co-founded by Kevin Henrikson, faced a critical hosting failure the morning before its App Store launch when their WordPress host botched the database. The outage capped a run of slow response times and an 11‑minute downtime that nearly derailed high‑profile press coverage, forcing the team to choose between scrambling through launch day or switching hosts immediately.

They migrated the site to Pantheon in a few hours with zero code changes, retaining full engineering flexibility while gaining best‑practice workflows and support. Load testing showed Pantheon was 10x faster—handling 15,987 hits with only 1 error versus the previous host’s thousands of errors and 30‑second timeouts—so the site scaled during launch and delivered dramatically improved performance.

Acompli

Kevin Henrikson

Co-Founder