How to go live

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Before deploy checklist

• Has the client setup a direct debit for the ongoing hosting costs?
• Do we have a SSL certificate and do we need it to be a wildcard?
• Is the SSL certificate in the 1password vault?
• Do we have administrative DNS logins, and are they saved in the 1password vault?
• Have we created accounts for email (mandrill), uploads (uploadcare), payments (stripe) etc.
• Are the site configuration files in the 1password vault?
• Do we have a google analytics key & is it in the 1password vault?
• Is there an infrastructure project?
• Does the infrastructure project have configurations for "dev", "next" and "production"?
• Can the infrastructure project be run successfully for "dev"?
• Can you access the "dev" site running on a local vm after it is created using the infrastructure project?
• Has the client been told the site will go live the day after we expect to do it?

  Kicking the tyres checklist

• Can I access the site at http://domain.com? If not:
  • Are the services running? sudo service site-name status
  • Is there any startup errors in /var/log/upstart/site-name.log?
• Does http://domain.com, http://www.domain.com and https://www.domain.com redirect to https://domain.com?
• Are uploadcare uploads being stored? You can use the uploadcare CLI for this
• Does it look and work ok on desktop browsers chrome, firefox, safari, IE?
• Does it look and work ok on my phone?
  • Does the menu work properly?
  • Can I navigate everywhere I'd expect to?
• Can I register?
• Can I login?
• Can I login as an admin?
• Can I create things?
• If I forgot my password, can I reset it?
• Can I change my password?
• Can I delete my account?
• Do the forms all use a client side validation library to ensure inputs are correct?
• Are all password fields type=password
• Can I click on labels and have the input become focused?
• If there are no items in a list, is there a message that says so?
• Does each public page have a different <title>?
• Are google analytics being recorded?
• Does it have a nice favicon?