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The True Cost of Downtime For Businesses

In this post, we’re sharing some of the best insights from specialists across a variety of industries to answer: What is downtime & why is downtime so detrimental for businesses? As well as answering this key topic we’ll also cover how businesses can take steps to prevent downtime & understand the underlying causes behind this often costly concern.

According to https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/resources/data-center-solutions/analyst-reports/itic-2019-global-server-hardware-server-os-reliability-report from ITIC in their 2019 edition of their annual Global Server Hardware Report, downtime costs businesses on average $301,000 per hour.

Experienced marketing specialist, Andrus Purde, CEO at https://outfunnel.com/ explains more; “For online businesses, downtime can lead to getting de-indexed on Google.

How can a business prevent downtime from occurring?