Columbus, United States
Server infrastructure for Ad Tech in Columbus
Infrastructure for Ad Tech is a question of matching the machine to the application, then putting it near the people using it. For a small Ad Tech business in Columbus that is about Single Core, 6 GB of memory and 900 GB of storage on VPS.
- ✓ 5 infrastructure tiers
- ✓ Sized for your workload, not a plan name
- ✓ Same price in all 24 locations
Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Columbus. 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 Ad Tech Most likely here
1–10 people · ~5,000 visits a month
$186.50 USD USD
per month · VPS
- Single Core
- 6 GB RAM
- 900 GB storage
About 6.2 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 2.1 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Medium Ad Tech
11–50 people · ~50,000 visits a month
$515.90 USD USD
per month · VPS
- 2 Cores
- 10 GB RAM
- 3000 GB storage
- Managed
About 61.7 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 6 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Large Ad Tech
51+ people · ~500,000 visits a month
$1,276.15 USD USD
per month · VDS
- 16 Cores
- 64 GB RAM
- 4000 GB storage
- Managed
About 617.3 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 24 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 Ad Tech size up this way
Working from about 5,000 visits a month and roughly 133,333 requests a day, storage grows by roughly 70 GB a month at this size, which usually decides the build before CPU does.
- 6.2 req/sec at peak
- 2.1 GB working set
- 70 GB/month growth
- Linux
Which tiers suit Ad Tech
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 | Persistent connections and custom ports are exactly what a shared platform does not permit. |
| VPS Flexible virtual infrastructure with full root access | Workable | Enough for a small server or a test instance, though a noisy neighbour shows up immediately as jitter. |
| VDS Virtual server with resources pinned to you alone | Recommended | Pinned cores are what keep tick rate and call quality steady; on a contended instance they are not. |
| Dedicated Server An entire physical server, configured to your specification | Recommended | Single-tenant hardware removes the last source of variance, which is what these workloads are judged on. |
| Bare Metal Physical compute for sustained, demanding workloads | Workable | For operators running many instances at once on hardware they control. |
Ad Tech workloads you can host
Real-time bidding answers in tens of milliseconds or loses the auction, and the log volume is immense.
- Bid request handling
- Audience segmentation
- Impression logging
- Frequency capping
- Reporting pipeline
Where your server runs
All 24 locations cost the same, so pick whichever sits closest to the people who will actually use the server.
Columbus is closest to Atlanta. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Columbus ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Atlanta, United States | 233 miles | 6–11 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 487 miles | 12–23 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 581 miles | 14–28 ms |
| Miami, United States | 728 miles | 18–35 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 854 miles | 21–41 ms |
| New York, United States | 936 miles | 23–45 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 1,707 miles | 41–82 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 1,896 miles | 46–92 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 2,007 miles | 48–97 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 4,382 miles | 106–212 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 4,519 miles | 109–218 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 4,557 miles | 110–220 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 4,772 miles | 115–230 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 4,786 miles | 116–231 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 4,946 miles | 119–239 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 5,666 miles | 137–274 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 6,590 miles | 159–318 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 6,737 miles | 163–325 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 8,051 miles | 194–389 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 8,303 miles | 200–401 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 8,557 miles | 207–413 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 8,601 miles | 208–415 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 9,059 miles | 219–437 ms |
| Singapore | 9,901 miles | 239–478 ms |
Distances are from Columbus. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Ad Tech in Columbus
The closest of our 24 data centres to Columbus is Atlanta, about 233 miles away. The price is the same in all 24 locations, so distance is the only variable worth optimising.
Columbus has a population of about 23,168, which is why the small build above is the one most likely to fit a Ad Tech business here — though the other two are a click away if it does not. Local time is America/Chicago, 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 Columbus
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Columbus | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Atlantaamericas | 233 miles | 6–11 ms |
| Dallasamericas | 487 miles | 12–23 ms |
| Chicagoamericas | 581 miles | 14–28 ms |
Columbus sits in Mississippi, 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 small size assumed above, that is roughly 133,333 requests a day crossing that link.
Ad Tech hosting in Columbus — FAQs
What size server does a Ad Tech business in Columbus, MS need?
Where would the server for my Columbus, MS business actually run?
Is a VPS enough for Ad Tech, or do we need a dedicated server?
Can you host bid request handling for us?
Can we start smaller and grow?
Other industries in Columbus
Same city, different workload.
Ad Tech hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.