Clemson is home base. C3 is headquartered here, which means when a Clemson business calls with a server down or a network that's stopped passing traffic, getting someone on site is a matter of minutes rather than a dispatch window.
Retail and hospitality dominate the local business mix, and they operate under a pattern you don't see in most towns this size: a population that swells dramatically on football weekends and through the university calendar. A point-of-sale system and a guest network that behave perfectly in July are a different proposition entirely on a home game Saturday.
Seasonal load is the pattern that shows up here more than anywhere else in the corridor, and it punishes equipment that was specified for an average day. Payment terminals that time out, guest Wi-Fi that collapses under a few hundred phones, an inventory system that can't keep up with the till — by the time anyone notices, the revenue is already gone and it doesn't come back. We watch capacity continuously rather than reactively, so strain shows up as a trend beforehand instead of a queue at the register. Card payments bring the other exposure: PCI obligations, network segmentation, and the uncomfortable question of what else is sharing the network with your payment devices.
Managed IT Services — Proactive monitoring and help desk support for your whole stack — infrastructure, applications, patching, and end users.
Cybersecurity — Penetration testing, AI-assisted threat monitoring, and security hardening that makes your business a harder target.
Network & Infrastructure — Business-grade network design, UniFi and Ubiquiti deployment, virtualization, and server infrastructure.
Technology Strategy & Advisory — Virtual CIO services, technology roadmap planning, vendor management, and IT budgeting.
AI for Your Business — We find the repeat tasks worth handing off, set up an AI assistant to draft them, and keep a person on your team in charge of everything that goes out.
Per user, per month. A one-time $500 onboarding fee applies to all managed plans. Commit to 12 months and save 5%, or 8% if you prepay the year.
small teams that just need the basics watched
growing businesses that need the whole stack handled
organizations that want a technology partner, not a vendor
On-demand support at $150/hour (1-hour minimum), with no ongoing contract. Requested after-hours work is $225/hour. Projects are quoted at a fixed fee before work begins.
Yes. C3 is based in Clemson, so on-site support here is same-day in practically every case. Most issues we resolve remotely and you never see us — but when hardware needs hands on it, we're a few minutes away rather than a few hours.
That's a large part of what our monitoring is for. We watch capacity and availability continuously, so the strain that arrives on a peak weekend shows up as a trend in advance rather than a surprise at the register. Where the network is the bottleneck, we'll tell you before the season rather than during it.
Pendleton and Six Mile are covered too — remote support reaches anywhere in Upstate South Carolina.
A free 30-minute assessment of where your technology stands — no jargon, no pressure, no obligation.
