You might think that you don’t really need IT support, London or anywhere else. If your business is small with less than five computers, you might be right, but only if you have someone on your team who can handle any issue. Before you decide against hiring any IT support, consider what might happen in these situations.
- Due to some user error, because no one was checking, your backups are destroyed and lost.
- Your database is permanently corrupted and all of your essential information for day-to-day functioning is impossible to access.
- A virus hits and because no one was monitoring your network, it has spread and corrupted all of your office PCs.
- Backups haven’t actually happened because no one was available to monitor them.
- An upgrade completely disables your PCs.
- Your website is hacked, but you’re no longer in communication with the developers.
- A flood strikes and water gets into all of your hardware, so that it’s unusable without significant repair work.
In all of these cases, it is virtually impossible for one or two people, even experienced ones, to fix the problem. Worse, recent statistics show that 59% of SMBs can only handle 4 hours of downtime before they start losing money. Worse, up to 90% of SMBs with significant data loss or downtime of more than ten days will be out of business in five years according to some studies.
That doesn’t have to happen to your company. Before starting out and establishing yourselves, really think about what IT service might mean for you. Consider your requirements and whether it’s actually cost effective to simply ignore potential problems for the first few years. It’s always worth creating backups and having them checked for problems on a regular basis, for example. You can either outsource this need or hire employees to do it yourself.
In London IT support is plentiful; don’t let your small business fail simply because you wanted to cut pennies from your budget.
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