Central Computer Services owner reflects on moving to new location in Perry 

PERRY – You may not know it, but Central Computer Services (CCS) in Perry just recently moved to a new location, now at 1109 Washington Street, Suite B. 

They have been in business for almost a decade and are now run by owner, Angie Cline, and her son David. 

“We opened in October of 2014 as a residential service for residential customers dealing with break and fix. For example, if your hard drive died, we would help recover the data and put a new hard drive in,” Angie Cline said. “Right now, we deal with a lot of customers who have been hacked through the internet in different ways, and we do FBI reporting on that when we diagnose where it is and where it came from. We also go to people’s houses or people’s businesses.” 

Angie Cline wanted to start her business to help the elderly from being hacked, some of which were her mother’s friends. 

“They were losing money and they weren’t talking to their friends or family,” she said. “They wanted somebody that can come in and speak to them one on one, and you help them and help guide them as to what they need to do to fix it.”

David Cline said he mostly focuses on the business contracts and the IT contracts.

“We focus more on cybersecurity because the tool kit that we have that we offer for a contractive business is that we have it where it is protecting from the work station itself to the domain,” David Cline said. “We have a tool that takes that domain and scans it on the Dark Web to see if there’s any information about employees that’s for sale on the Dark Web which include IP addresses.”

CCS has only been at their new location for a month and are by appointment only due to them being in a smaller location.

“Everybody’s data is personal, and that is something we try to stress to our customers,” she said. 

For the past three years CCS was on-the-go and more of a mobile business before they set up shop at their new location. Angie Cline said it is good to be back in an office in Perry because that is where they started. She said business has been “off the charts” since they moved to the new location. 

“As soon as people heard we were back in a building, we have been very busy,” she said. 

Angie Cline said it feels good to work with her son because they balance each other out. 

“What I lack, he already has and what he lacks I have,” she said. It’s a great common ground because we come from both sides of it.” 

Angie Cline said she thinks people feel more secure when your business is in a building rather than being mobile and now being at a new location will help the business in the long run.

David Cline has been working with CCS since he was 16 as he started working part-time in the summers. He graduated from college with a history degree and wanted to go to law school, but decided against it. 

“I took some time for myself and I realized we offer a service that a lot of tech companies around here don’t offer,” he said. “I could have either gone off to law school or I could just stay here and fulfill the need for the community, and that is what I decided to be the best route for me to take which is being involved in the community with a technical aspect.” 

Now David Cline works full-time and has been doing so since November of 2023. 

When the time comes, David Cline believes he will be able to take over the business. His mother also agrees. 

“I think when the time comes, I am leaning towards a definite yes, but it really just depends on if we are still a good fit for the community,” he said. “I think that as we continue on this trek that we’re taking now to be full service, cyber and IT people then it will be a definite yes to continue.” 

In the hopes of reaching more people, David Cline mentioned that CCS will be doing a Lunch and Learn event, which covers how to budget for IT.  

“What we’re planning on doing is creating a little program, giving them lunch while also giving them some take-back-to-the-office materials where they can work out how much they should be investing and compare it to what they are investing,” he said. “When it comes to IT, it’s not about insurance, it’s more assurance.” 

The first Lunch and Learn event will be on September 24 and CCS will aim to do these once a quarter. 

“We want to see if we will have a good turnout and if we get a good response from the community,” he said. That will involve either people showing up or people filling out surveys saying that they actually felt like they learned something and taking an active measure to try and expand out of that budgetary fickleness.” 

To find out more about Central Computer Services and to schedule an appointment go to centralcomputerservicesllc.com