PhotoWare is a website that provides large collection of member-generated, royalty-free digital photographs. Initially the website was started as a small hobbyist project hosted on a single server running Apache, PHP and MySQL. However, as the website gets popular, the single machine can hardly handle the access demands. Furthermore, sharing their large collections of digital images which amount to a million of photos had also taxed to their already limited bandwidth. Overtime, the website performance has deteriorated badly.
Recently Sony Corporation has expressed some interests to buy over PhotoWare. Before the discussion of any business acquisition, PhotoWare has requested your team to help recommend a feasible network architecture, solve the bandwidth issues and improve their website performance.
