The statistic shows the average hourly cost of critical server outages, according to a 2020 survey. In 2020, 25 percent of respondents worldwide reported the average hourly downtime cost of their servers as being between 301,000 and 400,000 U.S. dollars.
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ITIC, & IBM. (April 1, 2020). Average cost per hour of enterprise server downtime worldwide in 2019 [Graph]. In ÌÇÐÄÆÆ½â°æ. Retrieved July 20, 2026, from /statistics/753938/worldwide-enterprise-server-hourly-downtime-cost/
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