MEDIA & PUBLISHING · NEPAL
12millionmonthlyreaders.Sub-200ms.Nodowntime.
12M
Monthly readers
<200ms
Page response
99.9%
Uptime
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01 · The Challenge
What they came to us with.
Nepal's largest news platform was buckling under traffic spikes — especially during breaking news. The infrastructure couldn't keep up with the audience.
Brief
- Client
- Annapurna Express
- Market
- Nepal
- Industry
- Media & Publishing
- Engagement
- Platform re-architecture
- Year
- 2023
- Project Lead
- Prashant Khadka
02 · The Build
What Octoways delivered.
Infrastructure Re-architecture
Rebuilt for traffic spikes — CDN edge caching, load balancing, auto-scaling.
Sub-200ms Response
Database query optimisation, Redis caching layer, and static asset delivery via CDN.
National Scale
Platform serving 12M readers monthly across Nepal's highest-traffic news cycles.
99.9% Uptime
Zero downtime during election coverage — the highest-traffic event in the calendar.
03 · The Outcome
What changed.
12M
Monthly readers
Served without slowdown
<200ms
Response time
On peak traffic days
99.9%
Uptime
Including election coverage
04 · How we built it
They covered an entire national election without a single outage.
Annapurna Express · Media & Publishing