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Cost Calculators

Put Real Numbers on the IT Decisions You're Already Making

Every business makes these calls – usually without ever calculating them. Each calculator below takes your own figures and shows the full cost, not just the visible one. Estimates are fine; everything updates as you type, and nothing is collected or sent anywhere.

Cost of Downtime

When your systems stop, salaries keep running and income doesn't. What does one outage really cost – and what does a year of them add up to?

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True Cost of a Cheap PC

The purchase price is 20–30% of what a PC costs to own. Compare a cheap PC run to failure against a fit-for-purpose machine replaced on schedule.

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Ransomware Attack Cost

Staff locked out, income stopped, specialists on the clock. See what one attack would cost – and how many years of protection that bill would buy.

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Break-Fix vs Managed IT

"Only pay when it breaks" hides most of its costs in waiting, outages and the security it doesn't include. Compare the whole bill with a fixed monthly fee.

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In-House IT vs Outsourced

Wouldn't it be cheaper to just hire someone? Sometimes – at the right size. See the all-in cost of a hire and where the lines actually cross.

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Cost of Data Loss

A failed drive or a deleted folder, and yesterday's work is gone. See what one data loss event costs with – and without – backups that actually restore.

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Why We Publish These

Good IT Advice Should Survive Contact With a Calculator.

Every recommendation Tanglin makes – business-grade hardware, planned replacement, mandatory security, tested backups, fixed-fee proactive support – costs money, and you deserve to see why it's worth it in your numbers, not our adjectives.

Each model is deliberately conservative and its assumptions are spelled out on the page. If your numbers say something different, we'd genuinely like to see them – that conversation is exactly what a good IT partnership looks like.

Want These Numbers for Your Actual Business?

Tell us about your team and systems, and we'll walk through the figures with you – honestly, including the ones that don't favour us. No obligation.

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