Updating and Migrating a Legacy Dynamic Website
About Trailways
Industry: Transportation
Project Type: Upgrading & Cloud Management
Location: United States
Client Description: Trailways is an online platform for ticketing, rentals, and trip planning for bus travel in the United States.
Challenges
Trailways approached us with the goal of updating their legacy website, ticketing, and rental platform. Their objectives included:
- Modernizing the overall design
- Enhancing user experience
- Improving performance
- Optimizing for mobile devices
- Reducing maintenance time and cost
- Improving scalability
- Updating security protections
Our Solution
To modernize their legacy website, we executed a full migration from their existing WordPress and WPEngine setup to an advanced technical stack consisting of Next.js, Strapi, and AWS.
This upgrade aimed to deliver better performance, scalability, and flexibility in managing content and handling e-commerce functionalities.
Next.js was chosen for its powerful server-side rendering capabilities and seamless integration with modern frontend frameworks. Strapi was selected as the headless CMS to provide a more flexible and developer-friendly content management experience. AWS was utilized for its robust cloud infrastructure, ensuring scalable and secure hosting.
Process
The migration process involved several key steps:
- Content Extraction and Restructuring: We carefully extracted content and data from WordPress and restructured it to fit the new architecture.
- Frontend Rebuild: We rebuilt the frontend using Next.js, leveraging its static generation and API routes to create a fast, responsive, and SEO-friendly web store.
- Backend Configuration: Strapi was configured as the backend CMS, facilitating easy content management and integration with the new frontend.
- Infrastructure Deployment: The infrastructure was deployed on AWS, utilizing services such as EC2, S3, and RDS for hosting, storage, and database management.
Results
Our modernization and migration solution significantly improved Trailways’ performance and user experience. The new platform is now more scalable, maintainable, and better suited to meet their future business growth and needs.
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