A company is designing its first DRP and has identified a disaster recovery site for use in resuming operations. The company, however, will be unable to place any equipment in the site until the…

A hot site is a fully operational duplicate environment with real-time or near-real-time data replication and pre-installed equipment ready for immediate failover.

A cold site offers the lowest cost and readiness level among DR site types - it provides a physical location and basic utilities (power, HVAC, connectivity), but no hardware or infrastructure is in place until the organization brings it after a disaster declaration. This matches the scenario where no equipment can be placed until needed.

A warm site has some hardware and infrastructure pre-installed but requires configuration, data restoration, and additional setup before becoming operational.

A hybrid site combines elements of multiple DR site strategies, such as pairing a warm site with cloud resources, and is not defined by a complete absence of pre-placed equipment.