The Situation Before Cloud
A 7-person CA firm in Indore had invested ₹1.4 lakh in a local server 4 years ago. By 2024, the situation had evolved significantly from that initial investment:
- IT support contract: ₹12,000/month for a local consultant who came in when things broke
- Additional ad-hoc IT calls: averaging ₹4,000/month for issues between scheduled visits
- Power and UPS maintenance: ₹2,500/month allocated
- Annual hardware maintenance: ₹8,000/year (₹667/month)
- Server was slowing down noticeably under the firm's now-6-user concurrent load
- Partners could not access Tally from home — VPN setup had broken and the IT consultant kept deferring the fix
Total monthly infrastructure cost: approximately ₹19,167/month, rising. And the firm was getting less reliable service from aging hardware than when the server was new.
The Migration Decision
The firm evaluated M A Global Network's Tally on Cloud at ₹700/user/month for 7 concurrent users. The numbers were straightforward:
| Cost Item | Before Cloud | After Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| IT support contract | ₹12,000/month | ₹0 |
| Ad-hoc IT calls | ₹4,000/month (avg) | ₹0 |
| Power / UPS | ₹2,500/month | ₹0 |
| Hardware maintenance | ₹667/month | ₹0 |
| Cloud hosting (7 users) | ₹0 | ₹4,900/month |
| Monthly Total | ₹19,167 | ₹4,900 |
| Monthly Saving | ₹14,267/month |
Annual saving: approximately ₹1.71 lakh. Plus: the hardware investment would have needed replacement within 12–18 months — a further ₹1.5–₹2 lakh that was now deferred indefinitely.
Note: 18% GST is applicable on the ₹4,900/month cloud hosting cost. For a GST-registered CA firm, this is fully recoverable as Input Tax Credit, making the effective net cost ₹4,900/month.
The Migration Process
M A Global Network conducted the migration over a Saturday:
- Friday afternoon: Assessment call — confirmed all 40+ client Tally companies, TDL files, and user list
- Saturday morning: Windows Server 2022 provisioned, all staff IPs whitelisted on firewall
- Saturday afternoon: All 43 client Tally companies migrated and tested, TDL add-ons verified
- Saturday evening: Each partner tested access from their home — worked first attempt
- Monday morning: Firm switched to cloud — staff connected via RDP, business as usual
The migration cost: ₹0. Included in the plan.
What Improved After Migration
Performance: NVMe SSD vs the aging SATA HDD in the old server. Tally company opening time reduced from 25–40 seconds to 3–5 seconds. GST report generation on large client companies reduced from 45–90 seconds to 8–15 seconds. Staff noticed the difference on their first day.
Remote access: All three partners now access Tally from home daily. No VPN. No IT configuration. Their home IPs were whitelisted during setup. The partner who had been asking for remote access for 2 years had it on Monday morning.
Filing season reliability: The first GST filing season after migration was notably less stressful. The server did not slow during concurrent filing week access. The firm's accountant reported completing all filings 2 days earlier than the previous year.
IT support calls: Zero server-related IT calls in the 12 months following migration. The IT consultant was retained for other office infrastructure (networking, workstations) but no longer required for server management.
The 7-Day Risk-Free Guarantee
The CA firm used M A Global Network's 7-day risk-free guarantee — the migration was done, the firm tested everything for a week in parallel with the old server, confirmed complete satisfaction, and then decommissioned the local server. Full refund was available if anything was not right. Nothing was.
Frequently Asked Questions
The specific numbers vary by firm size, current IT setup, and local IT support costs. The structural saving is consistent: eliminating IT support, hardware maintenance, and power costs while replacing them with all-inclusive managed hosting at ₹700/user/month + 18% GST. For CA firms with 5–10 users and existing IT support contracts, the cloud hosting cost is typically 30–60% of the total current infrastructure cost — with better performance and remote access included.
The old server was kept running for 2 weeks during the parallel period, then powered down. The firm chose to keep it as a local backup (powered off, data retained) for 3 months before eventually repurposing the hardware. M A Global Network never requires clients to decommission old hardware on any schedule — your own data always remains exportable and you can maintain any local copy you choose.
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