SharePointers

We recently started creating a DR farm and I needed to get the wsp's out of our production farm so i could ensure the exact same version went into the dr farm. Thankfully someone already took on this challenge: http://spbyexamples.blogspot.com/2009/07/batch-solution-deployment-between-farms.html

This is a very good presentation on the considerations for deploying an external facing web site using SharePoint.