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Total Cost (of) Ownership

Total Cost (of) Ownership or TCO is the total cost to own and use a product or service over its entire lifetime. For example one web hosting service may be cheaper than another, but lack the support or tools for ease of use and so in total cost more in time and training.

Pipe Ten is all about the TCO, it’s often cheaper and possible for you to source what we provide from cloud providers directly but your cost of the knowledge and time to-do so for a one-off project is almost always higher than Pipe Ten doing so constantly and repeatedly on your and other behalf.