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What does it cost you when the systems go dark?
"We can't afford IT" is a different conversation once you've seen the number. Put in your real figures; the math runs in your browser with conservative, stated assumptions.
Downtime cost calculator
When the nine tenths fail, this is what a half-day costs you.
Type in your numbers. Conservative defaults. Your real cost is probably higher.
Lost productivity
$0
Lost revenue
$0
Total estimated cost
$0
Lost productivity uses $50/hour fully-loaded labor cost per affected employee. Lost revenue assumes a typical small-business operating year of 2,080 hours. Real-world impact often includes overtime, customer churn, and SLA penalties not captured here.
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The figure above is deliberately conservative. It counts idle payroll and a share of lost revenue. What it does not count, because it varies too much to estimate honestly, is the tail: the overtime to catch back up, the customers who went elsewhere, the missed deadline with a penalty attached, the reputation hit when you couldn't answer the phone.
For most Anchorage small businesses, the real cost of a serious outage is several times the baseline figure. And outages are not rare events: a failed server, a ransomware hit, a botched update, an internet circuit down for a day. The question is not whether one happens, but whether you recover in two hours or two days.
That recovery time is something you decide in advance, not during the crisis. It is the difference between having tested backups, an isolated copy, and a documented recovery plan, versus improvising while the clock runs.