When disaster hits, the clock doesn’t wait. Every second of downtime means lost revenue, missed SLAs, and damage to your reputation.
That’s why your disaster recovery site strategy matters more than almost anything else in your infrastructure.
The choice usually comes down to three options — Hot, Warm, and Cold sites — each with its own tradeoff between speed and cost:
🔥 Hot Site – Your entire environment is mirrored in real time. Failover is instant, downtime is measured in minutes… but so is the cost.
🌤️ Warm Site – Hardware and networking are ready to go, with data synced through scheduled replication. Recovery in hours instead of days — the balance most businesses aim for.
❄️ Cold Site – Power, cooling, and connectivity are there… but no live systems. Recovery takes days, but costs stay minimal.
Here’s the key: smart organizations don’t pick just one. They design multi-tiered recovery plans, mapping each application’s RTO (Recovery Time Objective) and RPO (Recovery Point Objective) to the right recovery site. Mission-critical apps get hot sites. Supporting systems use warm sites. Archival workloads rely on cold sites.
That’s how real resilience is built — by planning intentionally, not reactively.
What’s your RTO target — minutes, hours, or days? How do you balance cost with continuity? Drop your thoughts below 👇 — and let’s talk about how to build smarter recovery strategies that actually match your business reality.
StoneFly, Inc.
When disaster hits, the clock doesn’t wait.
Every second of downtime means lost revenue, missed SLAs, and damage to your reputation.
That’s why your disaster recovery site strategy matters more than almost anything else in your infrastructure.
The choice usually comes down to three options — Hot, Warm, and Cold sites — each with its own tradeoff between speed and cost:
🔥 Hot Site – Your entire environment is mirrored in real time. Failover is instant, downtime is measured in minutes… but so is the cost.
🌤️ Warm Site – Hardware and networking are ready to go, with data synced through scheduled replication. Recovery in hours instead of days — the balance most businesses aim for.
❄️ Cold Site – Power, cooling, and connectivity are there… but no live systems. Recovery takes days, but costs stay minimal.
Here’s the key: smart organizations don’t pick just one.
They design multi-tiered recovery plans, mapping each application’s RTO (Recovery Time Objective) and RPO (Recovery Point Objective) to the right recovery site.
Mission-critical apps get hot sites. Supporting systems use warm sites. Archival workloads rely on cold sites.
That’s how real resilience is built — by planning intentionally, not reactively.
What’s your RTO target — minutes, hours, or days?
How do you balance cost with continuity?
Drop your thoughts below 👇 — and let’s talk about how to build smarter recovery strategies that actually match your business reality.
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