The Colony, United States
Server infrastructure for B2B Commerce in The Colony
The right server for B2B Commerce is decided by the work it has to do, not by the size of the plan you happen to land on. For a medium B2B Commerce business in The Colony that is about 2 Cores, 24 GB of memory and 200 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 The Colony. 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 B2B Commerce
1–10 people · ~5,000 visits a month
$113.60 USD USD
per month · VPS
- Single Core
- 10 GB RAM
- 80 GB storage
About 1.0 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 7 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Medium B2B Commerce Most likely here
11–50 people · ~50,000 visits a month
$255.55 USD USD
per month · VDS
- 2 Cores
- 24 GB RAM
- 200 GB storage
- Managed
About 10.4 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 20 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Large B2B Commerce
51+ people · ~500,000 visits a month
$884.65 USD USD
per month · Dedicated Server
- 8 Cores
- 96 GB RAM
- 700 GB storage
- Managed
About 104.2 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 80 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 B2B Commerce size up this way
Working from about 50,000 visits a month and roughly 180,000 requests a day, peaks run about 5× the average hour, so the build is sized for the busiest moment rather than the typical one.
- 10.4 req/sec at peak
- 20 GB working set
- 8 GB/month growth
- Linux
Which tiers suit B2B Commerce
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 | Workable | Fine for a first storefront with a small catalogue, but checkout under load is where shared hosting shows its limits. |
| VPS Flexible virtual infrastructure with full root access | Recommended | Enough headroom for a catalogue, a cart and a payment gateway, with the caching layers a store needs to stay quick. |
| VDS Virtual server with resources pinned to you alone | Recommended | Guaranteed CPU is what keeps checkout responsive during a sale, when traffic arrives all at once rather than evenly. |
| Dedicated Server An entire physical server, configured to your specification | Recommended | The right tier for a high-traffic store, or one whose database has outgrown what a virtual instance can cache. |
| Bare Metal Physical compute for sustained, demanding workloads | Workable | Reserved for very large catalogues and enterprise commerce platforms running their own search and queue tiers. |
B2B Commerce workloads you can host
Prices are per-customer rather than per-product, so nothing on the catalogue can be cached the way a retail store caches it.
- Account pricing tiers
- Quote & approval flow
- Purchase orders
- Credit terms
- ERP integration
- Reordering
Where your server runs
All 24 locations cost the same, so pick whichever sits closest to the people who will actually use the server.
The Colony has a data centre of its own. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from The Colony ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Dallas, United States | Same city | 1–2 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 722 miles | 17–35 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 790 miles | 19–38 ms |
| Miami, United States | 1,123 miles | 27–54 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 1,192 miles | 29–58 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 1,229 miles | 30–59 ms |
| New York, United States | 1,364 miles | 33–66 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 1,441 miles | 35–70 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 1,661 miles | 40–80 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 4,735 miles | 114–229 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 4,896 miles | 118–236 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 4,935 miles | 119–238 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 5,057 miles | 122–244 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 5,117 miles | 124–247 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 5,314 miles | 128–257 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 5,995 miles | 145–289 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 6,943 miles | 168–335 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 6,444 miles | 156–311 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 8,096 miles | 195–391 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 8,162 miles | 197–394 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 8,575 miles | 207–414 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 8,589 miles | 207–415 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 8,770 miles | 212–423 ms |
| Singapore | 9,701 miles | 234–468 ms |
Distances are from The Colony. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
B2B Commerce in The Colony
The closest of our 24 data centres to The Colony is Dallas, about 22 miles away. The price is the same in all 24 locations, so distance is the only variable worth optimising.
The Colony has a population of about 41,779, which is why the medium build above is the one most likely to fit a B2B Commerce 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 The Colony
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from The Colony | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Dallasamericas | In your metro | 1–2 ms |
| Atlantaamericas | 722 miles | 17–35 ms |
| Chicagoamericas | 790 miles | 19–38 ms |
The Colony sits in Texas, 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 180,000 requests a day crossing that link.
B2B Commerce hosting in The Colony — FAQs
What size server does a B2B Commerce business in The Colony, TX need?
Where would the server for my The Colony, TX business actually run?
Is a VPS enough for B2B Commerce, or do we need a dedicated server?
Can you host account pricing tiers for us?
Can we start smaller and grow?
Other industries in The Colony
Same city, different workload.
B2B Commerce hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.