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Go Live Preparation

The following article discusses final considerations for taking your WCM site live, while also highlighting existing resources to help you in preparing the site for improved scalability and performance.

Throughout the previous sections of this wiki, we have described how to build the sample RiverBe nd website and discussed the key considerations and techniques when using Lotus Web Content Management. As you now consider going public with the site, and need to estimate how the site will scale when used daily by potentially hundreds or thousands of users you must take additional tuning considerations into account.

The key to prepare your site for going live is optimization and testing. If you reached this point, you are probably familiair with how to run functional and usability tests, you will need to consider these final issues as well.

• How are you going to manage the distribution the content between environments? How often should you do syndication? What is better in your case manual or scheduled syndication?
• Are you going to version every content in the system?
• What about historical items?
• What would happen to your website if the number of users grows exponentially?
• Are you ready to measure the success of the different parts of your site? (Do you have Metrics in place and have you defined what qualifies "success" for usage of the site?)

As you can sense from these questions, 'go live preparation' is more than moving content from one environment to another. It must be considered a key task in your project plan with enough resources and time to be executed correctly.

Fortunately, there are lot of resources that will help you during this process, in the past sections of this site you have found a lot of useful documentation about these topics but many other resources are available on the web:

	Title	Description	URL
1	Performance checklist	Useful checklist with questions to be addressed before your site goes into production. Every point is presented together with links to documentation	http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/library/techarticles/0807_lang/080 7_lang.html
2	WCM Best Practices	Collection of documents that cover best practices about site design, authoring, API development, syndication, migration and performance tuning.	http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/portalwiki.nsf/archive?openview&title=WCM%20Best%2 0Practices&type=cat&cat=WCM%20Best%20Practices
3	Caching and prerendering	This wiki entry shows the different caching options in WCM balancing them with pros and cons. Includes sample code and configuration files	http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/portalwiki.nsf/dx/web-content-management-caching-a nd-pre-rendering
4	IBM WebSphere Portal Web Content Manager and DB2 Tuning Guide	Article that explain how to improve performance in WCM / DB2 systems by following a couple simple steps.	http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/db2/library/techarticle/dm -0802tessarek/index.html?ca=drs-
5	IBM WebSphere Portal: Performance testing and analysis	This article provides advice and methods for finding and resolving common performance problems	http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/library/techarticle s/0807_lang/0807_lang.html
6	IBM Web Content Management (WCM) Tech Exchange webcast on performance and scalability - 31 January 2008	Webcast with do's and don'ts about performance and scalability with WCM. Includes an audio file and a presentation	http://www-1.ibm.com/support/d ocview.wss?rs=1041&context=SS6JVW&q1=lste_webcast&uid=swg21293824&am p;loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&lang=en
7	IBM Web Content Management (WCM) Tech Exchange Webcast on Deployment - 14 February 2008	This webcast about WCM architectural design describes real world WCM environments and provides guidance to choose among different alternatives while configuring logical and physical architectures. Includes an audio file and a presentation	http://www-1.ib m.com/support/docview.wss?rs=1041&context=SS3JLV&context=SS6JVW&q1=l ste_webcast&uid=swg21295350&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&lang=en
8	IBM Web Content Management (WCM) Tech Exchange webcast on maximizing cache performance - February 21, 2008	Webcast about performance and caching in WCM. It presents a practical approach to site optimization together with a collection of tools to be used in this activity. Includes an audio file and a presentation	http://www-1.ib m.com/support/docview.wss?rs=1041&context=SS3JLV&context=SS6JVW&q1=l ste_webcast&uid=swg21295820&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&lang=en

 

 

 

The following article discusses final considerations for taking your WCM site live, while also highlighting existing resources to help you in preparing the site for improved scalability and performance.