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Database downtime cost calculator

Estimate the annual cost of database-driven outages — lost revenue plus engineer surge time. Use it to size monitoring budget vs incident risk.

Revenue lost

$7.3k/ yr

$30 / minute of DB downtime

Engineer time

$3.6k/ yr

5 incidents · 4 on call

Total annual exposure

$10.9k/ yr

Lost revenue + responder surge

Cost model: revenue lost is proportional to DB-dependent revenue and downtime minutes. Engineer cost applies a 1.5× surge multiplier (context-switching, after-hours premium, post-mortem time) to the on-call team’s hourly rate during each incident.

Free, no signup, no email gate. Computations run client-side — your numbers never leave the browser.

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