Final Review

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

  • WordPress Launch Check

  • Drupal Launch Check

• Review Status Report