Cloud Hosting for Tax & Accounting Software in Los Angeles

☁️ Tax Software Hosting

Cloud Hosting for Tax & Accounting Software

Lacerte, ProSeries, Drake, CCH, and QuickBooks — off the aging office server and onto managed infrastructure where performance, backups, and updates are somebody else’s job. Ours.

  • Every major tax suite runs hosted — we manage the annual rollouts
  • Preparers work from anywhere with the full desktop experience
  • Seasonal staff spin up in hours, spin down in May
  • Migrations run off-season only — nobody moves in February
  • Hosting includes most of your FTC Safeguards checklist by design
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A team that picks up
The Server Problem

When the Office Box Becomes the Risk

Your tax software doesn’t care that your server is nine years old — until it does, in March, with 400 returns in progress. More Los Angeles firms are moving Lacerte, ProSeries, Drake, CCH, and QuickBooks off aging office servers and into hosted environments where performance, backups, and updates are somebody else’s job. Advanced Networks designs and manages those environments — private hosting, cloud desktops, or hybrid — sized for how your firm actually works.

The result: preparers work from anywhere with the full desktop experience, seasonal staff spin up in hours, and busy season stops depending on one machine in a closet.

  • Sizing, licensing, and environment design
  • Annual tax software version installs — handled centrally, once
  • Nightly encrypted backups with tested restores
  • MFA and encryption throughout
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infrastructure tickets, two seasons runningClient Benchmark
40
seasonal preparers, one afternoonFastest Onboard
100%
encrypted, restore-tested nightlyBackup Standard
May–Nov
the only months we migrateSeason-Safe
What We Deliver

Hosting Models We Build & Run

Private server, cloud desktops, or hybrid — recommended from experience, managed either way.

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Hosted private server
Your tax suite and file server on managed cloud infrastructure — the same applications, faster hardware, professional backups, no closet. The most common move for Lacerte, ProSeries, Drake, and UltraTax shops.
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Cloud desktops (virtual desktop infrastructure)
Every preparer gets an identical, secured desktop with all applications installed — from the office, home, or a client site. Seasonal staff onboard in hours. See our virtual desktop infrastructure services.
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QuickBooks hosting done right
Multi-user QuickBooks Desktop with real performance — plus honest advice on when QuickBooks Online is actually the better answer for a client file.
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Hybrid setups
Microsoft 365 for email and documents, hosted infrastructure for tax applications, local hardware only where it earns its keep. Most LA firms land here. Related: Microsoft 365 for accounting firms.
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Migration without losing a season
We move firms in the off-season with parallel running, tested cutovers, and rollback plans. Nobody migrates in February.
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Security and Safeguards alignment
Hosted environments come with MFA, encryption, monitoring, and tested backups baked in — which happens to be most of your FTC Safeguards Rule checklist.
The Warning Signs

Six Signs You’ve Outgrown the Server

From LA practices every year — usually in March, unfortunately.

01
Multi-user slowdowns
QuickBooks or tax software crawling when the whole team is in it.
02
Remote pain
VPNs and remote desktops bolted on, fragile, and slow from home.
03
The March fear
One aging server, one power supply, one bad day from disaster.
04
Annual version chaos
Every January, someone loses a weekend installing updates workstation by workstation.
05
Seasonal staff friction
New preparers waiting days for a working setup.
06
Backup uncertainty
Nobody has actually tested a restore.
What’s Included

Every Environment Ships With

Flat-rate, managed end to end.

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Suite Sizing
Lacerte to UltraTax
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Annual Rollouts
Installed centrally, once
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Nightly Backups
Encrypted, tested
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MFA Throughout
Safeguards-aligned
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24/7 Monitoring
Performance managed
🎧
8-Min Help Desk
Season-aware
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Seasonal Scaling
Up in Jan, down in May
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Vendor Escalations
Intuit, CCH, Drake
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QuickBooks
Desktop & Online
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Data Ownership
Yours, documented
Real Outcomes

Case-Study Snapshots

Anonymized where needed — real LA engagements.

01
The server that retired on schedule
A 20-person firm’s file server was due to fail; instead of another capital purchase, we moved their Lacerte environment to hosted infrastructure over one summer. The next two busy seasons ran without a single infrastructure ticket.
02
Forty seasonal preparers, one afternoon
A high-volume tax practice onboards its January class onto cloud desktops in hours — identical setups, MFA enforced, and access revoked cleanly in May.
03
The QuickBooks bottleneck, solved
A bookkeeping firm with 60 client files and constant multi-user lockups moved to hosted QuickBooks. File open times dropped from minutes to seconds.
Frequently Asked Questions

Hosting Questions, Answered

What firms ask before retiring the server.

Can Lacerte / ProSeries / Drake / UltraTax run hosted?
Yes — all major desktop tax suites run well on properly sized hosted infrastructure. We manage the annual version installs centrally.
Is hosting compliant with IRS and FTC requirements?
A properly built environment strengthens compliance: encryption, MFA, monitoring, and tested backups are inherent to the design. We document it for your WISP.
What does hosting cost?
Typically per-user monthly pricing that replaces server hardware, maintenance, and backup costs. See our pricing guide or get a fixed quote.
What happens to our data if we leave?
It’s yours. We document the environment and hand over data and configurations cleanly — no hostage-taking.
When should we migrate?
May through November. We plan around extension deadlines and never touch infrastructure during filing season.
QuickBooks Desktop or Online?
Depends on the client file and workflow. We support both and will tell you honestly when QBO is the better answer — and when it isn’t.

Go deeper: Accounting IT Hub · Accounting Managed IT · M365 for CPA Firms · Cloud Services LA · LA Pricing Guide

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