Case Study: Outback Bowl achieves scalable, always-on website performance and rapid disaster recovery with Flexential

Extreme surges in web traffic demand highly scalable environment

The Outback Bowl, a high-profile college football event that draws nationwide visitors to Tampa, relies on its website for ticketing, travel and event information and faces extreme traffic spikes—especially when teams are announced and on game day, with 90% of annual traffic concentrated in the three months before the event. Ensuring site availability and performance during these peak periods is mission-critical to the fan experience and event operations.

Flexential implemented a scalable cloud environment and Recovery Cloud disaster-recovery service that provide elastic bandwidth, continuous data replication, rapid failover to a secondary site, and non-disruptive testing. The result is a high-performing, resilient website with minimized downtime and data loss, reduced operational burden for the Outback Bowl IT team, and consistent, reliable access for visitors during peak usage.

Outback Bowl

Mike Schulze

Director of Communication & Sponsorships