Vancouver, Canada
Server infrastructure for Ad Tech in Vancouver
Sizing infrastructure for Ad Tech starts with the workload, then works back to cores, memory and disk. For a large Ad Tech business in Vancouver that is about 16 Cores, 64 GB of memory and 4000 GB of storage on VDS.
- ✓ 5 infrastructure tiers
- ✓ Sized for your workload, not a plan name
- ✓ Same price in all 24 locations
Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Vancouver. 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
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 Most likely here
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 500,000 visits a month and roughly 13,333,333 requests a day, storage grows by roughly 800 GB a month at this size, which usually decides the build before CPU does.
- 617.3 req/sec at peak
- 24 GB working set
- 800 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.
Vancouver is closest to Seattle. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Vancouver ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Seattle, United States | 119 miles | 3–6 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 824 miles | 20–40 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 1,079 miles | 26–52 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,767 miles | 43–85 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 1,772 miles | 43–86 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 2,087 miles | 50–101 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 2,239 miles | 54–108 ms |
| New York, United States | 2,426 miles | 59–117 ms |
| Miami, United States | 2,802 miles | 68–135 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| Stockholm, Sweden | 4,623 miles | 112–223 ms |
| London, United Kingdom | 4,711 miles | 114–227 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 4,784 miles | 115–231 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 5,003 miles | 121–242 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 5,230 miles | 126–253 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 5,292 miles | 128–256 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 5,703 miles | 138–275 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 6,655 miles | 161–321 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 4,696 miles | 113–227 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 6,371 miles | 154–308 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 6,916 miles | 167–334 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 7,110 miles | 172–343 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 7,615 miles | 184–368 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 7,767 miles | 187–375 ms |
| Singapore | 7,968 miles | 192–385 ms |
Distances are from Vancouver. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Ad Tech in Vancouver
We work with businesses across Downtown, Gastown, Yaletown, Kitsilano and Burnaby. Vancouver is design-conscious and mobile-first, with high expectations for site quality.
The closest of our 24 data centres to Vancouver is Seattle, about 119 miles away. The price is the same in all 24 locations, so distance is the only variable worth optimising.
Vancouver has a population of about 662,248, which is why the large 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/Vancouver, 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 PIPEDA. Pricing is quoted in CAD, and the figure is the same wherever the machine physically sits.
Network reach from Vancouver
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Vancouver | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Seattleamericas | 119 miles | 3–6 ms |
| Santa Claraamericas | 824 miles | 20–40 ms |
| Los Angelesamericas | 1,079 miles | 26–52 ms |
Vancouver sits in British Columbia, 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 13,333,333 requests a day crossing that link.
Ad Tech hosting in Vancouver — FAQs
What size server does a Ad Tech business in Vancouver, BC need?
Where would the server for my Vancouver, BC 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 Vancouver
Same city, different workload.
Ad Tech hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.