Transitioning a software application from a local development environment to a live production environment is one of the most critical phases of the software development lifecycle. In a local environment, settings favor debugging, speed of iteration, and visibility into application internals. In production, however, the priorities shift entirely toward security, scalability, performance, resilience, and monitoring.
Implement a caching backend like or Memcached .
Route user uploads directly to cloud object storage (like Amazon S3 or Google Cloud Storage) instead of the local filesystem. Database Production Tuning