Term Paper
System Analysis and Development
Professor Blaine Easterwood
Chris Donacki
September 6th 2015

When beginning to build a web architecture there are several things that need to be kept in mind. Firstly, performance, this is one of the more important considerations, the speed of a website has a direct impact on both the effectiveness of the website and how satisfied the users will be with the website. Not only that, it does play a role in search engine ranking which directly correlates to possible revenue if applicable. Due to this creating an optimized site with low latency is very important. Reliability, any system, every system needs to be if nothing else reliable. I mean this in a sense that data will remain consistent. Scalability, when it comes to any system size is just another aspect that needs to always be considered. Given how fast some businesses can grow on today’s internet this aspect is especially important. Any future growth must be able to be accommodated. Manageability, having a system that can easily diagnose and manage any problems additionally effects any possible revenue, essentially the only time you won’t be able to make money off of a website is when it’s down. Having a system that is highly manageable has an effect on everything else. Finally, cost, this should more or less go without explaining. How much it will cost to build the architecture from the ground up, and how much one would have to make in return for it to be a profitable venture. (Matsudaira, 2012) Anyone’s first step before migrating a website should be backing up the website on the current platform, whether it is hosted locally or it’s hosted by a third party. After that but before bringing down the current website is to create the future site, at least a rough structure for the exported data to be placed into. Next it’s important to have a staging URL to test