Take the 60-second calculator and find out exactly how much internet downtime is costing your business. Then decide if it's worth fixing.
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Not slows down. Stops. Card payments fail at the counter. Staff can't access Sage or Pastel. VoIP phones go silent, no inbound calls, no outbound calls. Remote branches lose access to the central server. Supplier orders can't be placed.
And while all of this is happening, you are paying your staff to sit and wait.
Most business owners have experienced this. Most have absorbed it, dealt with it, and moved on, without ever calculating what it actually cost them.
That's what this calculator is for.
You have a single connection, whether that's fibre, LTE, or microwave. When it goes down, you call the ISP, wait on hold, get a reference number, and wait. Could be an hour. Could be a day. There is nothing else you can do.
You may not have known that for roughly the cost of a data SIM per month, you could have a second connection that kicks in automatically, and the whole process becomes invisible.
You knew you needed a backup, so you got one. The problem: switching to it depends on one specific person, the owner, a manager, someone who knows where the router is, being available at the moment the main line fails.
If that person is on a plane, in a meeting, or at a family function, the business sits down until they can be reached. You've paid for a backup line. You're just not getting the full benefit of it.
Answer 5 quick questions about your business and we'll show you approximately how much internet downtime is costing you, in rand, per year.
No email required to see your estimate. We'll ask for your contact details at the end if you want the full breakdown.
A personalised estimate of what internet downtime is costing your business, based on your staff size, trading hours, and outage frequency.
Always On Internet: a Mikrotik router configured to your specific network, with automatic failover and round-the-clock monitoring, for a predictable monthly fee. No manual switching, ever.
If the cost of a single outage is more than a year of the service, the decision makes itself. If it isn't the right fit for your business, we'll tell you that too.
iSite is a KwaZulu-Natal managed IT company. We design, deploy, and manage ICT environments for operationally-critical businesses across KwaZulu-Natal and beyond.
We've managed WAN failover for our clients for years, as part of their broader IT infrastructure. Always On Internet packages that into a standalone service, because not every business needs a full managed IT contract to get automatic internet failover.