Acquia Hosting & DevOps for Drupal
Metadrop is an Acquia-certified partner managing enterprise Drupal on Acquia Cloud and Site Factory: migration, performance, security, compliance, and 24/7 support.
Talk to an Acquia-certified Drupal team and get a tailored quote for your platform.
Metadrop is an Acquia-certified partner that delivers fully managed Drupal hosting on Acquia Cloud. We handle migration, performance tuning, security, compliance, and 24/7 support for enterprise platforms, so your team can focus on what runs on the site rather than the infrastructure underneath it.
What is managed Acquia Cloud hosting for Drupal?
- Acquia Cloud is the platform-as-a-service built for Drupal by the company Drupal's creator founded. Its infrastructure, caching, search, and CI/CD are all tuned for Drupal rather than a generic PHP host.
- Managed Acquia hosting means a partner runs that platform for you, covering provisioning, deployments, monitoring, patching, scaling, and incident response, so your team ships features instead of managing servers.
- Metadrop delivers Acquia Cloud and Acquia Cloud Site Factory as a single accountable service with clear SLAs, with one team owning hosting, performance, and support end to end.
- This page covers enterprise Drupal on Acquia. If you are weighing platforms, see our self-hosted infrastructure option for the build-versus-managed decision.
Why Acquia for enterprise Drupal
Built for Drupal, by Drupal
The stack is optimized for Drupal core, so sites run faster and more predictably than on repurposed generic hosting.
Scale without re-architecture
Handle traffic spikes, campaigns, and growth on infrastructure proven on the world's largest Drupal sites.
Security and compliance built in
Certifications and hardening that are slow and costly to achieve on self-managed infrastructure come as a platform baseline.
Less ops burden
Provisioning, patching, and monitoring move off your roadmap, freeing developer time for product rather than firefighting.
Fully managed Acquia service
- End-to-end managed operations. Provisioning, deployment pipelines, monitoring, and incident response are all run by Metadrop, so your in-house team does not have to.
- Proactive updates and patching. Drupal core, contrib modules, and security fixes ship safely on a managed cadence, removing the patching overhead that drains internal teams.
- One accountable partner. A single escalation path and defined SLAs for hosting, performance, and support, instead of finger-pointing between vendors.
- Certified Drupal expertise. Acquia-certified partner status backed by 15+ years of Drupal delivery and Silver Certified Partner credentials, applied directly to your environment.
European footprint and 24/7 support
24/7/365 platform support, backed by Acquia
Acquia's enterprise SLA covers infrastructure uptime and round-the-clock platform monitoring, so the foundation never sleeps.
A real Drupal team on the application layer
Metadrop owns your Drupal code, integrations, and updates — engineers who know your platform, not a generic helpdesk reading scripts.
European base, global reach
Metadrop supports deployments across 50+ countries and 30+ languages, aligned to EU working hours and regulatory expectations.
Independent technical governance
We advise on platform decisions as a strategic partner rather than just executing tickets, flagging risk to non-technical stakeholders in plain language.
Continuity
Long-term, stable engagements with the same team that knows your platform.
Acquia Cloud Site Factory multisite
- Run many sites from one platform. Acquia Cloud Site Factory governs dozens or hundreds of Drupal sites with shared code, central updates, and per-site configuration.
- Proven at enterprise scale. Metadrop manages Site Factory multisite estates for large corporate groups, including multilingual and multi-brand architectures.
- Carve-outs and consolidations. We have split an existing Acquia multisite into a standalone platform for a newly independent entity, and consolidated fragmented sites onto Site Factory.
See our Drupal multisite work for the architecture behind these deployments.
Performance and scalability
Tuned Drupal stack
Varnish, Redis/Memcache, CDN, and PHP-FPM are configured for Drupal so pages stay fast under load.
Elastic scaling
Capacity flexes for traffic spikes and seasonal campaigns without re-architecting the platform.
High-availability SLAs
Enterprise uptime targets with redundancy across the stack; we set and report against agreed SLAs.
Continuous performance work
Metadrop profiles, caches, and optimizes on an ongoing basis rather than treating speed as a one-off launch task.
Security and compliance
- Platform-level protection. WAF, DDoS mitigation, SSL, and continuous security monitoring come as standard on Acquia Cloud.
- Compliance posture for regulated organizations. Metadrop delivers to GDPR, WCAG, NIS2 requirements and holds ENS certification, covering the obligations European enterprises and public bodies face.
- EU data residency. Hosting regions and configuration keep employee and customer data within required jurisdictions.
- Audit-ready operations. Access controls, sanitized non-production environments, and change tracking stand up to a compliance audit.
Developer workflow on Acquia Cloud
Dev-stage-prod environments
Production-identical environments allow safe testing before anything reaches live users.
Built-in CI/CD
Code Studio and Cloud IDE pipelines deploy from Git, with Acquia CLI, BLT, Drush, and Composer in the standard toolchain.
Observability
New Relic and platform monitoring give visibility into performance and errors, with alerts wired to Metadrop's on-call team.
Search at scale
Acquia Search (Solr) is tuned for large multilingual catalogs; see our Solr 9 upgrade on Acquia for a real migration.
How we move your site to Acquia
For broader platform moves, see our migrate to Drupal services.
Assessment
We audit your current Drupal site, infrastructure, integrations, and compliance needs to scope the migration.
Environment setup
We provision Acquia Cloud (or Site Factory), configure the stack, and wire up CI/CD pipelines.
Migration and testing
Code, data, and configuration move to production-identical environments and are validated before go-live.
Cutover
A planned switch with rollback safety moves traffic to Acquia with no surprise downtime.
Managed operations
Monitoring, updates, performance work, and 24/7 support begin the moment you are live.
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Frequently asked questions
What is Acquia Cloud?
Acquia Cloud is a managed platform-as-a-service purpose-built for Drupal by the company Drupal's creator founded. It provides Drupal-tuned infrastructure, caching, search, security, and CI/CD tooling, so Drupal sites run faster and more securely than on generic hosting. Metadrop manages Acquia Cloud (and Acquia Cloud Site Factory) on your behalf as a fully managed service.
How much does Acquia hosting cost?
Acquia uses custom enterprise pricing based on traffic, environments, and the Acquia products you need, so there is no single list price. Metadrop scopes the platform to your requirements and provides a tailored quote covering both the Acquia subscription and our managed services. Contact us for a proposal.
Can I migrate my existing Drupal site to Acquia?
Yes. Metadrop runs the full migration: assessment, environment setup, data and configuration migration, testing in production-identical environments, and a planned cutover with rollback safety. We have moved enterprise Drupal sites, including Drupal 8-to-10 upgrades with e-commerce and multilingual requirements, onto Acquia with no surprise downtime.
What is Acquia Cloud Site Factory?
Acquia Cloud Site Factory is Acquia's multisite platform for running many Drupal sites, from dozens to hundreds, from shared code with central updates and per-site configuration. Metadrop manages enterprise Site Factory estates, including multilingual and multi-brand architectures and carve-outs that split a shared multisite into a standalone platform.
What compliance standards does Acquia hosting meet?
Acquia Cloud provides platform-level security controls, and Metadrop delivers your site to GDPR, WCAG, and NIS2 requirements with ENS certification for public-sector obligations. We configure EU data residency, access controls, and audit-ready operations so regulated European organizations stay compliant.
How is managed Acquia hosting different from self-hosting Drupal?
With self-hosting, your team owns provisioning, patching, scaling, security, and uptime. With managed Acquia hosting, Metadrop runs all of that on a Drupal-optimized platform under defined SLAs, so your team focuses on the product. Compare the trade-offs on our self-hosted infrastructure page.
Talk to an Acquia-certified Drupal team
Tell us about your Drupal platform and we will scope managed Acquia Cloud hosting and a migration path tailored to your traffic, compliance, and budget.