Case Study: La Nación achieves a high-performance, seamless advanced paywall with Varnish Software

South American Media Giant La Nación & Spanish Partner Allenta Use Varnish Api & Web Acceleration To Build A Robust Advanced Paywall

La Nación is a leading Argentine morning newspaper whose digital edition attracts millions of monthly readers. Facing a digital-first audience and declining advertising revenue, the publisher needed to deliver content faster while integrating access control with existing user and subscription systems and supporting complex signwall/paywall rules.

Allenta implemented Varnish API & Web Acceleration with an Advanced Paywall toolkit, using Varnish Cache Plus, VMODs, VCL fragments, digitally signed cookies and a high-performance key-value store to enforce access control at the edge without degrading performance. The deployment seamlessly integrated with La Nación’s backends, sustained peak traffic with low latency, and created a flexible framework for future paywall features and fraud-detection enhancements.

La Nacion

José Luis Falvo

Manager of Infrastructure and Operations of Digital Media