Soft launch - April 1

[dboyer]

On April 1, production needs to be live in soft launch mode. Users need to be able to register for an account and go to their user profile.

This is a “bucket” issue to cover supporting everything we will need to iron out for deployment.

Deployment Tasks and Decisions

• Instance Types
• DB Size 20 GB
• Breaking changes after domain switch
• slamb Failover Site
• Pingdom Setup
• SNS Setup (SMS)
• Self-Hosted Font

Application Bugs

• jwalgran Hide progress counts on anonymous and logged in home page
• slamb Remove "show me the map" link in top image
• jwalgran Link contact as a mailto link to treescount.help@parks.nyc.gov and hide privacy in sidebar navigation
• slamb Update copyright info to 2015
• maurizi Update home page text
• maurizi Update About & FAQ text
• jwalgran Replace hero image
• Add sponsor logos

[hectcastro]

Regarding instance types, application and tile servers are set to m3.medium. If that becomes an issue down the road, we can scale them up to m3.large or out to more m3.mediums.

The RDS database server is an db.m3.large, and the ElastiCache instance is cache.m1.small. We can scale both of them up if needed. Starting the cache at m1.small because that is the smallest instance type with backup capabilities.

The monitoring server is the same as staging with a t2.medium. The NAT instances are t2.mediums as well based on Jeremy's recommendations.