Swansea, United Kingdom
Server infrastructure for Banks in Swansea
Infrastructure for Banks is a question of matching the machine to the application, then putting it near the people using it. For a large Banks business in Swansea that is about 28 Cores, 448 GB of memory and 2000 GB of storage on Bare Metal.
- ✓ 5 infrastructure tiers
- ✓ Sized for your workload, not a plan name
- ✓ Same price in all 24 locations
Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Swansea. 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 Banks
1–10 people · ~5,000 visits a month
$425.65 USD USD
per month · VDS
- 4 Cores
- 48 GB RAM
- 200 GB storage
- Managed
About 0.6 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 33.6 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Medium Banks
11–50 people · ~50,000 visits a month
$1,066.90 USD USD
per month · Dedicated Server
- 8 Cores
- 128 GB RAM
- 450 GB storage
- Managed
About 5.7 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 96 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Large Banks Most likely here
51+ people · ~500,000 visits a month
$3,793.90 USD USD
per month · Bare Metal
- 28 Cores
- 448 GB RAM
- 2000 GB storage
- Managed
About 56.7 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 384 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 Banks size up this way
Working from about 500,000 visits a month and roughly 1,400,000 requests a day, about 384 GB of data needs to stay in memory to keep queries fast.
- 56.7 req/sec at peak
- 384 GB working set
- 32 GB/month growth
- Linux
Which tiers suit Banks
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 gives you no control over where data sits or who else is on the machine, which regulated records cannot accept. |
| VPS Flexible virtual infrastructure with full root access | Workable | Workable for a small practice, with the caveat that you own the patching and audit trail unless you add management. |
| VDS Virtual server with resources pinned to you alone | Recommended | Isolated, pinned resources in a data centre you choose, which is usually what a data-residency obligation actually requires. |
| Dedicated Server An entire physical server, configured to your specification | Recommended | A single-tenant physical machine is the clearest answer to "who else can reach this data" — nobody. |
| Bare Metal Physical compute for sustained, demanding workloads | Workable | For larger estates running several regulated systems on hardware you control end to end. |
Banks workloads you can host
The ledger has to balance and be provably durable, so this is the workload least tolerant of a lost write.
- Core banking ledger
- Online & mobile banking
- Payment rails
- AML & fraud screening
- Statement generation
- Regulatory reporting
Where your server runs
All 24 locations cost the same, so pick whichever sits closest to the people who will actually use the server.
Swansea is closest to London. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Swansea ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 164 miles | 4–8 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 380 miles | 9–18 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 560 miles | 14–27 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 734 miles | 18–35 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 774 miles | 19–37 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 1,006 miles | 24–49 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 1,462 miles | 35–71 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 2,365 miles | 57–114 ms |
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| New York, United States | 3,302 miles | 80–159 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 3,396 miles | 82–164 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 3,797 miles | 92–183 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 4,048 miles | 98–195 ms |
| Miami, United States | 4,265 miles | 103–206 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 4,596 miles | 111–222 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 4,676 miles | 113–226 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 5,243 miles | 127–253 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 5,311 miles | 128–256 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Delhi NCR, India | 4,341 miles | 105–210 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 4,632 miles | 112–224 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 5,104 miles | 123–246 ms |
| Tokyo, Japan | 6,015 miles | 145–290 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 6,111 miles | 148–295 ms |
| Singapore | 6,898 miles | 167–333 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 10,694 miles | 258–516 ms |
Distances are from Swansea. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Banks in Swansea
The closest of our 24 data centres to Swansea is London, about 164 miles away. Round-trip time is set by physical distance more than by anything else, so the nearest site is usually the right one.
Swansea has a population of about 300,352, which is why the large build above is the one most likely to fit a Banks business here — though the other two are a click away if it does not. Local time is Europe/London, 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 the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018. Pricing is quoted in GBP, and the figure is the same wherever the machine physically sits.
Network reach from Swansea
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Swansea | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Londonemea | 164 miles | 4–8 ms |
| Amsterdamemea | 380 miles | 9–18 ms |
| Frankfurtemea | 560 miles | 14–27 ms |
Swansea sits in Wales, 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 1,400,000 requests a day crossing that link.
Banks hosting in Swansea — FAQs
What size server does a Banks business in Swansea, Wales need?
Where would the server for my Swansea, Wales business actually run?
Is a VPS enough for Banks, or do we need a dedicated server?
Can you host core banking ledger for us?
Can we start smaller and grow?
Other industries in Swansea
Same city, different workload.