Case Study: Open Access College achieves 45% bandwidth reduction, 48% fewer servers and reliable uptime with Cloudflare

Open Access College - Customer Case Study

Open Access College (OAC) is South Australia’s only public distance education school, serving students who are remote for reasons like isolation, travel, health or to access single subjects. OAC needed a reliable, fast website for geographically dispersed students and faced recurring traffic spikes at the start of the school year and assignment deadlines that threatened to take the site offline.

By deploying Cloudflare’s CDN and automated DDoS mitigation, OAC caches content across 200+ cities and absorbs traffic surges, reducing bandwidth consumption by more than 45%, cutting server requirements by 48%, and keeping the site online so students can enroll and submit work without interruption.

Open Access College

Kenneth Burgoyne

Data and Infrastructure Manager