Website Protection & Downtime Impact Calculator
Estimate how much avoidable downtime and malware impact your site may have each year — and how much proactive monitoring, updates, and backups could reduce that risk.
Use the Tool
1. Website Type & Revenue Model
2. Operating Costs
3. Current Site Maintenance & Protection
Overall Protection Summary
Annual Cost Comparison
Your expected annual costs without protection vs. the monitoring bundle investment:
Incident-Level Breakdown
For each common downtime cause, we estimate how often it's likely to happen and the annual cost based on your revenue and marketing spend when problems go undetected.
| Cause | Expected incidents / year | Typical detection time (no monitoring) | Total downtime hours / year | Expected annual cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plugin / theme conflicts | 8 - 48 hours | |||
| Hosting / server issues | 1 - 24 hours | |||
| DNS / SSL issues | 12 - 72+ hours | |||
| Database errors | 2 - 48 hours |
Malware Risk Analysis
Comparison of your current malware risk vs. a fully-managed setup with daily backups, regular updates, and monitoring.
| Malware Probability | Cost per Serious Incident | Expected Annual Impact | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Current Setup | |||
| Managed | |||
| Difference (Savings) |
Find out more about our Monitoring Bundle or ask for a quick review of your current setup.
Do you have questions about website monitoring and whether your situation (hostong, backup management, theme/plugin updates) calls for professional monitoring? If so, contact us, we want to help you ensure your website asset is safe and your uptime is optimal.
When You'd Use This Tool
To protect one of your biggest assets--your website
Did you ever stop to think about how much you’ve invested into your online presence. It’s likely in the thousands. Shouldn’t you protect it?
To see the true costs of downtime
Downtime costs include revenue lost, costs for maintaining the site, your time and developer time to get the site back up and earning for you again.
To understand malware risks
Ever had malware on your site. It isn’t fun and besides the damage it can do, it can costs lots to get it removed. Professional monitoring helps you guard against malware ruining your day!
How to Use This Tool
Step 1
Select the Website Type that matches best with your website purpose.
Step 2
Fill in the ‘Operating Costs’ associated with your website. Costs associated with your website type are provided to help you.
Step 3
In the ‘Current Site Maintenanct & Protection’ section, select the values that reflect your site’s current situation. This section should be carefull selected as your current backup plan and hosting provider significantly impact downtime and malware incidents.
Step 4
Click the button ‘Calculate Risk & Avoidance Cost’ to see your report. You can then download the report as a PDF file, so you can analyze and assess the impacts are your leisure.
