Redundant site: Complete identical site to our production site, receives a real time copy of our
data. If our main site is down the redundant site will automatically have all traffic fail over to
the redundant site. Hot site: Similar to the redundant site, but only houses critical applications
and systems, often on lower spec’d systems. We may have to manually fail traffic over, but a full
switch can take an hour or less. Warm sites would take 4-24+ hours, cold sites can take weeks.