How to Prepare for a Successful Launch
2014-01-22
Launching a new web application can be a nerve-wracking experience. Besides being nervous about how your users are going to respond to your product, you also have to worry about whether the site will stay up and running in the first place. It is important to be well prepared for any issues you may encounter when you unleash your web application to the public for the first time. It can be hard to predict how much (or how little) traffic you are going to get. You don’t want to get paralyzed by fear and doubt and delay your launch while you (prematurely?) optimize everything you can but you also don’t want to end up with a failing application and no plan to get it back up and running quickly. There are certainly some things you can do to prepare for your launch and to handle an unexpected load of traffic.
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