Case Study: Texas Exes (University of Texas Alumni Association) achieves zero downtime and scalable site management with Pantheon

The University of Texas Alumni Association Creates a Premiere Site for Its Members with Pantheon

The Texas Exes, the 130‑year‑old University of Texas Alumni Association with over 100,000 active members, relies on texasexes.org as its primary hub for news, networking, and donations. Their aging local hosting struggled with frequent outages and poor performance during traffic spikes (notably when major football news broke), lacked reporting tools, and strained a small IT staff that also needed Salesforce integration.

Working with Four Kitchens, the Texas Exes migrated to Pantheon for elastic hosting, built a new CMS, and switched over with no downtime. Pantheon’s uptime monitoring, Multidev workflow, and Salesforce integration have eliminated outages, kept the site responsive under heavy loads, and freed the team to focus on content and innovation while providing a scalable, reliable platform for future growth.

Texas Exes

Steve Blackburn

Vice President of IT and Facilities for the Exes