--- title: The Cost of Protection description: Every day we encounter customers that have cobbled together their own disaster recovery (DR) solution, renting space in a secondary co-lo, buying equipment, setting up replication, etc. It’s a lot of work and money. canonical_url: https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/cost-protection/ locale: en last_updated: 2026-10-27 --- [Acronis Blog](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/) # The Cost of Protection Every day we encounter customers that have cobbled together their own disaster recovery (DR) solution, renting space in a secondary co-lo, buying equipment, setting up replication, etc. It’s a lot of work and money. [![Image 2: Acronis Editorial Team](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/content/d85707ae91461544212d39836dc32b42.png)](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/authors/acronis/ "Acronis Editorial Team") [Acronis Editorial Team](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/authors/acronis/) 1 min read Last updated 01 June 2026 Every day we encounter customers that have cobbled together their own disaster recovery (DR) solution, renting space in a secondary co-lo, buying equipment, setting up replication, etc. It’s a lot of work and money. These companies would like to have someone else deal with all of it for them, but the big players in DR are way too expensive, and don’t really cater to mid-sized businesses anyway. When we tell customers about our DR solution and what it costs, the response is frequently, “That sounds too good to be true.” Well, we’ve pulled together some numbers to show that, really, nScaled DR costs 25-50% less than building your own solution. 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