Idle Wages
Your whole team is on the clock whether the systems work or not. Ten people watching a spinner is real payroll burning.
Free Tool · Downtime Cost Calculator
Every hour of downtime has a price. See yours
When the server dies or the internet drops, the meter starts running: idle wages, lost sales, missed deadlines. Put your own numbers in and see what an hour, a day and a year of downtime really costs, then get a free plan to stop paying it.
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Instant, private and free · calculations run in your browser with the numbers you enter
Where the Money Goes
Downtime costs more than you think
The invoice never says downtime, which is why it hides so well. Here is where an outage actually drains money.
Lost Sales
Orders you cannot take, jobs you cannot invoice, customers who buy elsewhere while you are down.
The Catch-Up Tax
Work does not vanish, it piles up. Overtime, rushed mistakes and late deliveries follow every outage.
Customer Confidence
Missed calls and we will get back to you erode the reputation you spent years building.
Data Loss Risk
Outages caused by failures or attacks can take data with them, and that cost dwarfs the downtime itself.
It Adds Up
A couple of bad days a year plus the little half-hour outages quietly total serious money.
Prevention Beats Recovery
What actually drives the number down
You cannot make downtime cost less per hour. You can make the hours stop happening. This is how.
Proactive monitoring
Most outages announce themselves early, a failing drive, a filling disk. Monitoring catches them before your team does.
Maintained, updated systems
Well-maintained equipment simply fails less. Boring maintenance is the cheapest uptime there is.
Redundancy where it counts
Backup internet, redundant storage and failover for the systems your business cannot live without.
Tested backups and recovery
When something does break, a tested recovery plan turns days of downtime into hours.
Fast, accountable support
A team that answers immediately and knows your systems shrinks every incident.
A plan before you need it
Knowing who does what in the first 30 minutes is free, and it saves fortunes.
How It Works
From losses to uptime
01
Calculate
Put your numbers in above and see the real hourly cost.
02
Send It
Share your result and we reply with a free prevention plan sized to your business.
03
Prevent
Monitoring, maintenance, redundancy and recovery, set up properly.
04
Profit
Fewer outages, faster recoveries, and a number you stop paying.
Prevention is almost always cheaper than one bad day.
Compare your downtime number to the cost of preventing it. That is the whole business case for managed IT.
Why Orca
Why businesses hand uptime to Orca
The calculator is free because keeping businesses running is what we sell, and it pays for itself.
Uptime is our product
Monitoring, maintenance, backups and fast support exist for exactly one reason: fewer down hours.
We prevent, not just repair
Catching a failing drive on Tuesday beats replacing a dead server on Monday morning.
Honest math
We will show you prevention costs next to your downtime number. If it does not make sense, we will say so.
Fast when it counts
When something does break, you get a team that answers now, remote and onsite across the Phoenix area.
20+ years of experience
Two decades keeping Arizona businesses running through failures, storms and surprises.
One predictable cost
Managed IT turns surprise outage bills into a flat monthly number you can budget.
Questions
Downtime costs, answered
Is this calculator accurate?
It is an honest estimate built only from the numbers you enter: idle wages plus revenue at risk. Real incidents often cost more once overtime, recovery work and lost customers are counted.
What counts as downtime?
Any time your people cannot work normally: dead server, internet outage, email down, ransomware, a crashed line-of-business app, even a spilled coffee on the wrong machine.
How many downtime hours does a typical business have?
It varies hugely with how systems are maintained. Businesses with aging, unmonitored equipment routinely lose multiple full days a year. Well-managed businesses measure it in minutes. Use the slider to see your range.
Do you see the numbers I enter?
No. The math runs in your browser. Your figures only reach us if you choose to send them with the form, so we can build your prevention plan around them.
What does preventing downtime actually involve?
Monitoring that catches failures early, patching and maintenance, backup internet and redundancy where it matters, tested recovery, and fast support. We size it to your business.
Is prevention expensive?
Compare it to your hourly number above. For most businesses, a month of managed IT costs less than a single bad day, and that is the point.
Can you help after we are already down?
Yes. If you are down right now, call us at the number above and we will get you moving, then help make sure it does not happen again.
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Your Free Plan
Stop paying for downtime.
Send your number and we will reply with a free prevention plan, with honest costs next to what outages are costing you. Or just call.
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