Take a look at this article: Buying and Spending Smart: Ways to Save Money in Your Small Business. Some sound advice, particularly #17 – Save Money By Avoiding Losses.
It’s important in any business to keep costs under control, but this does not mean spending no money at all. In many cases an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) may seem like an unnecessary expense, you rack your brains trying to think of the last time you had a power cut and can’t remember. So why bother?
Well, a power cut is only part of the power quality spectrum for a start. What about a surge? Or transients? Dips, noise, harmonics? There are many phenomena that can cause problems with your electronic systems (computers et al) which you should need to protect against. The cost to your business can be huge.
Imagine working on your spreadsheet, or presentation, or important tender document and out go the lights. You’ve lost everything! Or maybe not, you sensibly had the auto-save function on, so in fact you’ve only lost 10 minutes. Phew -not so bad. But then when the power comes back on, your PC no longer starts up. The sudden power loss has caused your hard drive to fail. Not only now do you not have access to anything you have done since your last backup (you did backup didn’t you?), you now have the expense of having your PC repaired, the data extracted, and not to mention the hassle of it all. I bet it’s cost you a damn site more than the UPS would ever have done.
We have a great range of UPS systems at competitive prices for people just like you. Depending upon your level of risk we have a suitable solution. If you want to protect against simple surges, black outs or brown outs, try our VIX range. You can pick up a UPS for under £30 which will protect your PC and shut it down safely if required. At this price it seems crazy not to!
For your more high powered and critical servers, go online double conversion. This way you protect against almost everything poor power quality can throw at you.
