Several Disaster Recovery services providers promote the concepts of cold sites and hot sites. To what programs do these terms refer?
A cold site describes a physical location maintained by a company for use following a disaster. It can be a room, a building or any facility that will provide space and only space to the subscribing company. Since the same cold site may have been contracted for by several companies (under the presumption that not all companies will be affected simultaneously), the cold site may be available on a first-come, first-served basis, or may require space sharing by more than one company. In any case, companies must supply their own equipment which, depending on the disaster, may not be operable. The hot site, on the other hand, comes equipped with hardware necessary to conduct electronic services. Like the cold site, it may accommodate more than one business or organization at the same time. It should be noted that both the cold site and the hot site are orders of magnitude more costly than the El Camino Disaster Recovery Emergency Replacement Plan, and it has not been determined whether such
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