Final Checklist

Part seven of our Launch Essentials guide covers the next steps to take after your site goes live.

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Congrats!! You just launched a site on Pantheon. This is a big deal. Revel in your glory.

When you're ready to launch another site, use this best-practice checklist to establish a repeatable going live procedure.

Best Practice Checklist for Going Live

Create the Live environment

Upgrade Site Plan

Enable and Schedule Weekly Backups

Enable Redis

Configure Caching

Test Cache

Disable XML-RPC For WordPress

Set Up Outgoing Email

Activate New Relic Pro

Setup Availability Monitoring

Load and Performance Test

Add Domains to the Live Environment

Redirect to a Primary Domain

Configure DNS

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Drupal Launch Check

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