Richmond, United States
Server infrastructure for Ad Tech in Richmond
Infrastructure for Ad Tech is a question of matching the machine to the application, then putting it near the people using it. For a medium Ad Tech business in Richmond that is about 2 Cores, 10 GB of memory and 3000 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 Richmond. 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
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 Most likely here
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 50,000 visits a month and roughly 1,333,333 requests a day, storage grows by roughly 200 GB a month at this size, which usually decides the build before CPU does.
- 61.7 req/sec at peak
- 6 GB working set
- 200 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.
Richmond is closest to Atlanta. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Richmond ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Atlanta, United States | 276 miles | 7–13 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 336 miles | 8–16 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 482 miles | 12–23 ms |
| New York, United States | 587 miles | 14–28 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 784 miles | 19–38 ms |
| Miami, United States | 862 miles | 21–42 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 1,907 miles | 46–92 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 2,025 miles | 49–98 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 2,049 miles | 49–99 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 4,011 miles | 97–194 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 4,167 miles | 101–201 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 4,184 miles | 101–202 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 4,400 miles | 106–212 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 4,414 miles | 107–213 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 4,578 miles | 111–221 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 5,293 miles | 128–256 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 6,220 miles | 150–300 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 6,637 miles | 160–320 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 7,706 miles | 186–372 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 8,117 miles | 196–392 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 8,240 miles | 199–398 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 8,242 miles | 199–398 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 9,361 miles | 226–452 ms |
| Singapore | 9,686 miles | 234–468 ms |
Distances are from Richmond. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Ad Tech in Richmond
The closest of our 24 data centres to Richmond is Atlanta, about 276 miles away. Every kilometre between your users and the server is latency you cannot optimise away in software.
Richmond has a population of about 33,533, which is why the medium 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/New York, 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 Richmond
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Richmond | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Atlantaamericas | 276 miles | 7–13 ms |
| Chicagoamericas | 336 miles | 8–16 ms |
| Torontoamericas | 482 miles | 12–23 ms |
Richmond sits in Kentucky, 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 medium size assumed above, that is roughly 1,333,333 requests a day crossing that link.
Ad Tech hosting in Richmond — FAQs
What size server does a Ad Tech business in Richmond, KY need?
Where would the server for my Richmond, KY 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 Richmond
Same city, different workload.
Ad Tech hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.