San Francisco, United States
Server infrastructure for 3D Design in San Francisco
There is no single correct server for 3D Design; there is a correct one for the workload, the volume and the budget. For a large 3D Design business in San Francisco that is about 6 Cores, 96 GB of memory and 4000 GB of storage on Dedicated Server.
- ✓ 5 infrastructure tiers
- ✓ Sized for your workload, not a plan name
- ✓ Same price in all 24 locations
Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from San Francisco. Your real figure depends on your connection and route, and lands inside this range.
Choose the infrastructure for your workload
Three sizes of business, each sized from an assumed traffic figure rather than a measured one. If you know your own numbers, tell us and the estimate changes with them.
Small 3D Design
1–10 people · ~5,000 visits a month
$191.90 USD USD
per month · VPS
- 2 Cores
- 10 GB RAM
- 600 GB storage
- GPU on request
About 0.1 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 5.6 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Medium 3D Design
11–50 people · ~50,000 visits a month
$498.55 USD USD
per month · VDS
- 2 Cores
- 24 GB RAM
- 2000 GB storage
- Managed
- GPU on request
About 0.6 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 16 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Large 3D Design Most likely here
51+ people · ~500,000 visits a month
$1,296.40 USD USD
per month · Dedicated Server
- 6 Cores
- 96 GB RAM
- 4000 GB storage
- Managed
- GPU on request
About 6.2 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 64 GB of working data.
Configure this build →These figures are assumptions stated out loud, not predictions about your business. Memory, cores and disk can all be raised on the same server later, usually within the hour, with no rebuild and no new IP address — so starting one size below the estimate is normally the cheaper mistake.
Why 3D Design size up this way
Working from about 500,000 visits a month and roughly 266,667 requests a day, storage grows by roughly 480 GB a month at this size, which usually decides the build before CPU does; each request costs real computation rather than a cache lookup, so cores matter more here than on a typical site; the software is Windows-based, which sets a floor on cores, memory and disk before the workload is considered; and a GPU is genuinely used rather than optional, and is quoted separately.
- 6.2 req/sec at peak
- 64 GB working set
- 480 GB/month growth
- Windows
Which tiers suit 3D Design
Including the ones that do not, and why — that is usually the more useful half.
| Infrastructure | Verdict | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Shared Hosting Managed space on a shared server | Not this one | Shared hosting serves websites; it cannot present a Windows desktop to work on. |
| VPS Flexible virtual infrastructure with full root access | Workable | Adequate for light remote desktop work — email, documents, a line-of-business application. |
| VDS Virtual server with resources pinned to you alone | Recommended | Guaranteed CPU and memory are what make a remote desktop feel like a local one rather than a slideshow. |
| Dedicated Server An entire physical server, configured to your specification | Recommended | The right tier for CAD, BIM and rendering, where the whole machine is in use for hours at a stretch. |
| Bare Metal Physical compute for sustained, demanding workloads | Recommended | For teams running several workstations on one physical host, with GPUs available on request. |
3D Design workloads you can host
Rendering is where the hours go, and a GPU changes the working day rather than the benchmark.
- Modelling workstations
- Render queue
- Texture & material libraries
- Asset versioning
- Client previews
Where your server runs
All 24 locations cost the same, so pick whichever sits closest to the people who will actually use the server.
San Francisco is closest to Santa Clara. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from San Francisco ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Santa Clara, United States | 39 miles | 1–2 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 347 miles | 8–17 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 679 miles | 16–33 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,481 miles | 36–71 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 1,855 miles | 45–90 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 2,136 miles | 52–103 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 2,264 miles | 55–109 ms |
| New York, United States | 2,566 miles | 62–124 ms |
| Miami, United States | 2,591 miles | 63–125 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 5,142 miles | 124–248 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 6,895 miles | 166–333 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 7,424 miles | 179–358 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 7,679 miles | 185–371 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 7,813 miles | 189–377 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 8,385 miles | 202–405 ms |
| Singapore | 8,440 miles | 204–407 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 5,354 miles | 129–258 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 5,357 miles | 129–259 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 5,452 miles | 132–263 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 5,675 miles | 137–274 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 5,790 miles | 140–280 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 5,947 miles | 144–287 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 6,427 miles | 155–310 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 7,391 miles | 178–357 ms |
Distances are from San Francisco. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
3D Design in San Francisco
We work with businesses across SoMa, the Mission, the Financial District, the Marina and Nob Hill. San Francisco audiences are tech-savvy and hold sites to a high bar for speed and design.
The closest of our 24 data centres to San Francisco is Santa Clara, about 39 miles away. Every kilometre between your users and the server is latency you cannot optimise away in software.
San Francisco has a population of about 827,526, which is why the large build above is the one most likely to fit a 3D Design business here — though the other two are a click away if it does not. Local time is America/Los Angeles, so routine maintenance and backups are scheduled against your overnight rather than ours.
Data stays in the jurisdiction you choose, which matters if you are working to state privacy laws such as the CCPA. Pricing is quoted in USD, and the figure is the same wherever the machine physically sits.
Network reach from San Francisco
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from San Francisco | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Santa Claraamericas | 39 miles | 1–2 ms |
| Los Angelesamericas | 347 miles | 8–17 ms |
| Seattleamericas | 679 miles | 16–33 ms |
San Francisco sits in California, and every one of our 24 locations costs the same — so the only thing worth optimising is which of them your users are closest to. At the large size assumed above, that is roughly 266,667 requests a day crossing that link.
3D Design hosting in San Francisco — FAQs
What size server does a 3D Design business in San Francisco, CA need?
Where would the server for my San Francisco, CA business actually run?
Is a VPS enough for 3D Design, or do we need a dedicated server?
Can you host modelling workstations for us?
Can we start smaller and grow?
Other industries in San Francisco
Same city, different workload.
3D Design hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.