[silurius]

I'm building out a site for an emmerging company with a small set of initial offerings. As we move into the second quarter of 2005, I anticipate large volumes of transactions in vBulletin, a standard store, a private/public CMS and one or two other platforms. We are also considering setting up some sort of trade solution, details as yet undecided.

At the moment, I'm totally alone on the technology side, but I have a background in IT and some knowlege about disaster recovery best practices (based on what I've seen, plus I'm reading through NIST docs). What I do not know is what is actually appropriate for smaller sites and startups who rely on less robust hosting as opposed to a full-fledged datacenter.

Are there best practices written anywhere for something this small? One thing that occured to me would be simply to set up hosting at another company in another part of the country, yet with the way hosting plans work I'm not certain we could guarantee a smooth failover within less than a couple of days.

I'd like to approach this as carefully and systematically as I can, while also not shocking the exec team with a huge pricetag etc. at this early juncture.