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Technical hosting checklist

• Project owner: Have you set RPO and RTO for the critical parts of the website? Document the greatest acceptable data loss and the longest recovery time.
• Project owner: Do you know the total cost for the first two years? Add the renewal price, domain, mail, backups and management.
• Project owner: Who controls the domain, and how will you leave? Verify access to registration, DNS and exports of files and the database.
• Developer: Does the environment meet the application's requirements? Compare versions, extensions, the database, scheduled jobs and queues.
• Developer: Can a change be deployed and rolled back safely? Test staging, the deployment process and restoration of the previous version.
• Developer: Do you know the limits of critical operations? Check CPU, memory, disk operations and concurrent requests under load.
• Administrator: Are backups complete and recovery tested? Check files, the database, retention, separate storage and a record of the restoration test.
• Administrator: Are access rights separated and traceable? Require multifactor authentication, roles, key management and a change log.
• Administrator: Is there an incident procedure? Verify monitoring, alerts, available logs, contacts and escalation.