Case Study: New Statesman achieves reliable, scalable traffic handling with Pantheon

New Statesman Aces Massive Traffic Spikes with Pantheon’s Scalable Web Hosting

NewStatesman, a leading UK political news site owned by Progressive Media, was facing monthly performance issues and the risk of major traffic spikes ahead of the 2014 election season. The team needed a reliable, scalable hosting solution for NewStatesman.com and its companion site, May2015.com, and chose Pantheon’s WordPress hosting platform.

Pantheon migrated both sites in just three weeks and provided elastic scaling, caching, CDN support, and centralized site management. On election day, NewStatesman handled 400,000 visitors—about 3x normal traffic—without downtime, while the team also improved productivity, managing nearly 4x more websites and developing sites an estimated 2–3x faster with Pantheon.

NewStatesman

Toby White

CTO, Progressive Media