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# SaaS Startup Checklist



## Development



- [ ] Source Code Repository

- [ ] Continuous Integration

- [ ] [Cross Browser Testing](#cross-browser-testing)

- [ ] [API](#api)



## Deployment



- [ ] [Domain Name](#domain-name)

- [ ] [Hosting](#hosting)

- [ ] [Automated Deployment](#automated-deployment)

- [ ] [Backups](#backup)

- [ ] [Redundancy and Failover](#redundancy-and-failover)

- [ ] [Alert and Monitoring](#alert-and-monitoring)

- [ ] [Transport Layer Security](#ssl-certificate)

- [ ] [Content Delivery Network](#content-delivery-network)

- [ ] [YSlow! Web Performance Best Practices and Rules](#yslow!-web-performance-best-practices-and-rules)

- [ ] [Application Performance Monitoring](#application-performance-monitoring)

- [ ] [Error Tracking](#error-tracking)

- [ ] [Analytics](#analytics)

- [ ] [Social Media](#social-media)

- [ ] [Status Page](#status-page)

- [ ] [Image Optimisation](#image-optimisation)

- [ ] [Feedback Form](#feedback-form)



## Resources



### Cross Browser Testing



* [BrowserSwarm](http://www.browserswarm.com/)

* [Sauce Labs](https://saucelabs.com/)



### API



#### Documentation



* [API Blueprint](http://apiblueprint.org/) - _API Documentation with powerful tooling._

* [API Blueprint Language Specification](https://github.com/apiaryio/api-blueprint/blob/master/API%20Blueprint%20Specification.md)

* [iglo](https://github.com/subosito/iglo) - _API Blueprint's formatter._

* [Apiary](http://apiary.io/) - _Build beautiful APIs with collaborative design, instant API mock, generated documentation, integrated code samples, debugging and automated testing._



### Domain Name



* [Namecheap](http://www.namecheap.com/)

* [Gandi](https://www.gandi.net/)



### Hosting



#### Virtual Private Server (VPS)



* [Linode](https://www.linode.com/)



#### Dedicated Server



* [OVH](https://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/)

* [Digital Ocean](https://www.digitalocean.com/)

* [Hetzner](http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/)



#### Cloud



* [Amazon EC2](http://aws.amazon.com/)

* [Rackspace Cloud](http://www.rackspace.co.uk/cloud)



### Automated Deployment



### Backups



Database replication and frequent, off-site backups.



* [Amazon S3](http://aws.amazon.com/s3/)



### Redundancy and Failover



Server redundancy and fail-over, load balancing. Multiple, redundant hosting providers to handle datacenter outages.



### Alert and Monitoring



* [PagerDuty](http://www.pagerduty.com/) - _Provides SaaS IT on-call 

schedule management, alerting and incident tracking._



### Transport Layer Security



Keep your customer's data safe by using an encrypted connection with an SSL certificate. Mandatory for registration and login pages.



### Content Delivery Network



Optimise delivery of web pages, block threats and limit abusive bots and crawlers.



* [CloudFlare](https://www.cloudflare.com)



### YSlow! Web Performance Best Practices and Rules



Yahoo!'s Exceptional Performance team has identified a number of [best practices for making web pages fast](http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html).



1. [Minimize HTTP Requests](http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#num_http)

2. [Use a Content Delivery Network](http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#cdn)

3. [Avoid empty src or href](http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#emptysrc)

4. [Add an Expires or a Cache-Control Header](http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#expires)

5. [Gzip Components](http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#gzip)

6. [Put StyleSheets at the Top](http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#css_top)

7. [Put Scripts at the Bottom](http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#js_bottom)

8. [Avoid CSS Expressions](http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#css_expressions)

9. [Make JavaScript and CSS External](http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#external)

10. [Reduce DNS Lookups](http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#dns_lookups)

11. [Minify JavaScript and CSS](http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#minify)

12. [Avoid Redirects](http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#redirects)

13. [Remove Duplicate Scripts](http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#js_dupes)

14. [Configure ETags](http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#etags)

15. [Make AJAX Cacheable](http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#cacheajax)

16. [Use GET for AJAX Requests](http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#ajax_get)

17. [Reduce the Number of DOM Elements](http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#min_dom)

18. [No 404s](http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#no404)

19. [Reduce Cookie Size](http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#cookie_size)

20. [Use Cookie-Free Domains for Components](http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#cookie_free)

21. [Avoid Filters](http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#no_filters)

22. [Do Not Scale Images in HTML](http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#no_scale)

23. [Make favicon.ico Small and Cacheable](http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#favicon)



### Application Performance Monitoring



Monitor application performance and track historical trends. 

Should include page load times, error rates, slow transactions, servers resource usage. Correlate performance metrics with deployments/releases. Alerting for severe performance degradation.



* [NewRelic](http://newrelic.com/) - _A powerfully simple way to monitor your Web & Mobile applications._



### Error Tracking



Aggregate client and server errors, exceptions and failures. Should include stack traces, environment information, intelligent notifications, trend analysis. 



* [Sentry](https://getsentry.com/welcome/) - _Know immediately when things happen in your application. Engage users before they have a chance to report a problem._

* [Airbrake](http://airbrake.io/) - _With deploy tracking, logging, dupe detection and a dashboard to track your exceptions, managing and triaging errors has never been easier._

* [RayGun](http://raygun.io/) - _Real time error reporting you can set up in under 5 minutes!_

* [Exceptional](http://www.exceptional.io/) - _Tracks errors in web apps. It reports them in real-time and gathers the info you need to fix them fast._

* [Errbit](http://errbit.github.io/errbit/) - _The open source, self-hosted error catcher._

* [Google Stackdriver Error Reporting](https://cloud.google.com/error-reporting/) - _Real-time exception monitoring and alerting. No limits._ 



#### Analytics



* [Google Analytics](https://www.google.co.uk/analytics/)

* [Go Squared](https://www.gosquared.com)



#### Client-side error tracking



* [Errorception](http://errorception.com/) - _Simple and painless way to find out about JavaScript errors, as they occur in your users' browsers. All you need to do is insert a script tag on your page, and you will start recording errors as they happen in real-time._

* [QBaka](https://qbaka.com/) - _Cloud-based frontend error monitoring and analytics for web services & mobile HTML5._

* [JSLogger](http://jslogger.com/) - _Log Javascript errors and events in the cloud._

* [Muscula](http://www.muscula.com/) - _Log your JavaScript errors, so you can fix them._

* [BugSense](https://www.bugsense.com/) - _Get actionable reports on the health of your Javascript apps & websites!_

* [ExceptionHub](http://www.exceptionhub.com/) - _Easy Setup, drop in code and start collecting errors._



### Social Media



Register appropriate usernames/pages on social media sites. Configure alerts for mentions, complaints and praise.



* [Twitter](https://twitter.com/)

* [Facebook](http://www.facebook.com/)



### Status Page



Externally hosted resource displaying real-time system availabilty, historical uptime, latency, past incidents.



* [StatusPage.io](https://www.statuspage.io/) - _The best way to create a status page for your app or website._



### Image Optimisation



* [Tools for image optimization](http://addyosmani.com/blog/image-optimization-tools/)



### User Authentication



* [LoginRadius](https://www.loginradius.com/)

* [MojoAuth](https://www.mojoauth.com)

* [Okta](https://www.okta.com/)