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I am getting ready to launch a new application with a business partner. I am the technical founder and only developer at the moment and want to make sure the business is resilient as far the app is concerned. I have the app in a private github repo, it's hosted on heroku, but all the development is done on my personal computer, which is backed up. God forbid if I get kidnapped by aliens or worse, I want to make sure my partners will be able to access and continue operating the app? Could someone point me to best practices concerning this issue?

A few years ago I was inspired by this artice: http://viniciusvacanti.com/2010/11/01/6-things-you-need-to-learn-to-build-your-own-prototype/. Now I am able to build my own Rails apps and run them in production. I am now wondering what it takes to launch and successfully run a website with 5-10K users? All the articles I have found doing a web search were vary basic.