No matter how much testing has gone on something will have changed in order to put the site live

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Whatever it is that has changed will have invalidated all your previous tests, so please, please, please perform a full end to end test. Often payment gateway providers only accept requests from a given IP address. We knew of a site that re-launched onto new servers. Everything went smoothly, all the tests completed satisfactorily, and the website worked as expected. You could add products into your cart, and move all the way through the checkout process.


It was only when you actually clicked the pay now button kuwait mobile phone numbers database when the payment gateway failed because the IP address had changed. If you don't perform a full end to end you are leaving something to chance, and will be leaving money on the table. Your customers won't ring you up and tell you that they can't order, they will most likely just find another website. 7) Server logs The first few hours, and days after a site has gone live is a scary time for all involved.


Ask your sys admin to give you regular reports on any status codes that aren't 200. If I was you I'd keep an eye on any 404 errors you receive along with any server 500 errors. I'd probably also be checking Google webmaster central for any errors in their crawl stats. For those of you who use Google Analytics the following blog post talks nicely about tracking 404 errors.