Case Study: Hildesheimer Allgemeine Zeitung achieves reliable high-traffic website performance with Platform.sh

With Platform.sh, the Hildesheimer Allgemeine Zeitung is ready for any headline

Hildesheimer Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany’s oldest daily newspaper still in circulation, needed a more reliable way to handle sudden traffic spikes on its website during emergencies. After its own hosting setup crashed during a major 2014 evacuation incident, the team looked to Platform.sh for a more scalable hosting solution for its Drupal-based publishing environment.

Platform.sh provided an “all-round carefree package” with efficient CLI tools, easy infrastructure management, Bitbucket workflow integration, and 24/7 support. The new setup kept the site stable during later high-traffic events, including Storm Chiara and the COVID-19 period, when visits doubled to 3 million and page views reached 6 million. The newspaper also reported saving time on deployments and testing, and cutting infrastructure costs by one-third.

Hildesheimer Allgemeine Zeitung

Alexander Loss

Head of IT