Pharmaceutical & Biotech

Server infrastructure for Bioinformatics

Sized from the workload rather than sold as a plan name: what Bioinformatics actually run, what that needs, and which tier it belongs on.

Recommended builds by size

Three sizes of operation, each sized from an assumed traffic figure.

Small

1–10 people · ~5,000 visits a month


VDS

  • 4 Cores
  • 48 GB RAM
  • 700 GB storage

A single site or team, with traffic that arrives in a predictable working-hours pattern.

Medium

11–50 people · ~50,000 visits a month


Dedicated Server

  • 8 Cores
  • 128 GB RAM
  • 2000 GB storage

A growing business running several systems, where an outage now costs real money.

Large

51+ people · ~500,000 visits a month


Bare Metal

  • 28 Cores
  • 448 GB RAM
  • 4000 GB storage

Multiple sites or a busy platform, with traffic that spikes and an obligation to stay up.

Which tiers suit Bioinformatics

InfrastructureVerdictWhy
Shared Hosting Managed space on a shared server Not this one There is no version of this workload that fits on shared hosting.
VPS Flexible virtual infrastructure with full root access Workable Useful for development, notebooks and light inference, but not for training or sustained compute.
VDS Virtual server with resources pinned to you alone Workable Suits CPU-bound preprocessing and data preparation with a guaranteed share of the machine.
Dedicated Server An entire physical server, configured to your specification Recommended Production compute wants the whole machine, with memory bandwidth that is not being shared.
Bare Metal Physical compute for sustained, demanding workloads Recommended Training, inference and simulation belong on physical hardware, with GPUs available on request.

Bioinformatics workloads you can host

Reference databases are held in memory to be useful, and they are large before any of your own data arrives.

  • Analysis pipelines
  • Reference databases
  • Notebook environments
  • Job queues
  • Result visualisation

Bioinformatics hosting by city

Each page names the closest of our 24 data centres and how far away it actually is.

Related industries

Bioinformatics hosting — FAQs

What server specification do Bioinformatics usually need?
It depends on volume more than on the industry. A medium-sized operation working from about 50,000 visits a month lands around 8 cores, 128 GB of memory and 2000 GB of storage.
How were these figures worked out?
From an assumed traffic level, the number of requests each page makes, and how much data the application keeps warm — then rounded up to a build we actually sell. They are assumptions stated out loud rather than measurements of your business.
Can we change size later?
Yes. Memory, cores and disk can all be raised on the same server, usually within the hour, with no rebuild and no new IP address.