Case study
Farnborough International Airshow
Supporting one of the world’s leading aerospace events with secure, resilient managed hosting infrastructure.
About
Infrastructure trusted by one of the world’s leading aerospace events
Farnborough International Airshow is one of the world’s leading aerospace and defence events, welcoming hundreds of thousands of visitors and industry professionals from across the globe. For many years, Strategies has provided the managed hosting infrastructure behind its digital presence, delivering the reliability, security and performance required to support one of the industry’s highest-profile events.
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The challenge
Two years of demand, one week of truth
An airshow website has a uniquely unforgiving traffic profile. For months it works steadily, serving exhibitors, trade registrations and planning. Then show week arrives and everything spikes at once: ticket bookings, press access, exhibitor listings, live updates, with the world’s aerospace media watching and $100bn of industry business in motion around it. There are no second chances; if the site struggles during show week, the moment is gone for two years. The hosting behind it has to be engineered for the peak, not the
The solution
Enterprise infrastructure, engineered for the spike
Strategies hosts the Airshow’s website on our enterprise-grade UK infrastructure, monitored around the clock with engineers alerted the moment anything changes. Capacity is planned for show-week peaks rather than everyday traffic, security is managed under our ISO 27001 certified processes, and backups and recovery provisions mean the platform is protected even against the unexpected. Working alongside the site’s development team, we look after the layer everything else stands on, so that when the gates open, the infrastructure is simply not a question.
The impact
The show goes on, online as well as in the sky
Show after show, the website does its job: handling registration surges, serving a global audience and staying up when the spotlight is brightest. Farnborough International focuses on delivering the world’s greatest airshow; we make sure the digital front door never closes. It’s what managed hosting should be: invisible when it works, and it works.
