IT support for a creative coastal town
Laguna Beach is known for its art colony, galleries and festivals, boutique hotels and restaurants along Pacific Coast Highway, and a long list of design, architecture and real estate offices. Many firms here are small teams working with large creative files, guest Wi-Fi and payment systems, often from more than one location — and the town’s canyon roads make fast remote support just as important as on-site visits.
Planning for fire season and power shutoffs in Laguna Beach
Only two major roads lead into Laguna Beach: Coast Highway and Laguna Canyon Road (State Route 133). The canyon is wildland — the October 1993 fire burned more than 14,000 acres and destroyed or damaged 441 homes — and the city warns that Southern California Edison may cut power to parts of Laguna Beach during high fire danger. The first mile of Laguna Canyon Road had its power lines moved underground in August 2026, but the stretch into downtown is still on poles.
For a small office, studio or gallery, that means planning for a full day without power, not a five-minute blip:
- Files, email and phones in the cloud, so staff keep working from home or another town during a shutoff — see Microsoft 365
- Battery backup sized to shut network gear and any local server down cleanly
- A cellular connection that keeps card readers taking payments when the main line drops
- Offsite backups that don’t depend on the building being reachable
Timing matters as much as power. Tourism is the town’s main industry, and each summer brings the Festival of Arts, the Pageant of the Masters and the Sawdust Art Festival. We schedule upgrades and hardware swaps for the quieter months, so nothing changes during your busiest weeks. Our engineers are about 15 miles away, straight down Pacific Coast Highway.
Built for Laguna Beach businesses
- Galleries, design & architecture — fast Wi-Fi, large-file sharing and backups for portfolios, CAD and image libraries. See construction and architecture
- Hotels & retail — segmented guest Wi-Fi, payment security and point-of-sale networks that stay up through the busy season. See hospitality
- Real estate & professional offices — secure Microsoft 365, phishing protection and wire-fraud safeguards for transaction-heavy teams
What every Laguna Beach client gets
Every Managed Care client in Laguna Beach gets a help desk where an engineer on our local team answers calls in under 60 seconds and responds to every email or portal ticket within 20 minutes (Monday–Friday, 5 AM–6 PM Pacific), 24×7 NOC & SOC monitoring, SentinelOne managed detection and response, and processes audited for SOC 2 Type II across all five Trust Services Criteria.
- Managed IT services — help desk, device management, Microsoft 365 administration and 24×7 monitoring
- Cybersecurity — MDR, email and browser security, training and vulnerability management
- Backup and disaster recovery — the first thing we set up, on day 0 of onboarding
- Business communications and IT consulting — VoIP, connectivity, vCIO planning and fixed-fee projects
On-site support from Huntington Beach
Our engineers work from our office at 101 Main Street in Huntington Beach, about 15 miles from Laguna Beach via Pacific Coast Highway. On-site support for your existing environment is included in Managed Care — no dispatch, trip or hourly charges. Managed Care is $179 per user per month for your first 100 users, with no onboarding fee. See your price.
We also support nearby Newport Beach, Laguna Niguel, Aliso Viejo, Dana Point and Laguna Hills, and businesses across Orange County.
