Launch
Launching the site isn't just sitting around patting yourself on the back as you ftp the new site on the server, its about having a plan when to launch the site, at what time and what are you gonna do if it all goes wrong (i.e. rollback).
- Obviously, all these greatly depend on your client and set up, some examples of what you might do include:
- Picking the least visited time to make the new site live (within reason of course), you should know this thanks to testing you did earlier.
- Perhaps you're client is announcing something to the media/shareholders, etc, therefore has to be up at X'o clock.
- If you have access to the configuration file in Apache, create a new site, upload the new site to the server, test it and when its time to go live - update the configuration file to new site. If something goes wrong you can easily rollback to the older version.
