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Launch Essentials

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Final Review

Part eight 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.

Final Review for Going Live

  • Create the Live environment

  • Upgrade Site Plan

  • Enable and Schedule Weekly Backups

  • Enable Redis

  • Configure Caching

  • Test Cache

  • (WordPress) Disable XML-RPC

  • 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

  • (WordPress) Update URL references

  • Configure DNS

  • Launch Check

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