Burnaby, Canada
Server infrastructure for Bioinformatics in Burnaby
Sizing infrastructure for Bioinformatics starts with the workload, then works back to cores, memory and disk. For a medium Bioinformatics business in Burnaby that is about 8 Cores, 128 GB of memory and 2000 GB of storage on Dedicated Server.
- ✓ 5 infrastructure tiers
- ✓ Sized for your workload, not a plan name
- ✓ Same price in all 24 locations
Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Burnaby. 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 Bioinformatics
1–10 people · ~5,000 visits a month
$493.15 USD USD
per month · VDS
- 4 Cores
- 48 GB RAM
- 700 GB storage
- GPU on request
About 0.1 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 33.6 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Medium Bioinformatics Most likely here
11–50 people · ~50,000 visits a month
$1,276.15 USD USD
per month · Dedicated Server
- 8 Cores
- 128 GB RAM
- 2000 GB storage
- Managed
- GPU on request
About 0.6 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 96 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Large Bioinformatics
51+ people · ~500,000 visits a month
$4,063.90 USD USD
per month · Bare Metal
- 28 Cores
- 448 GB RAM
- 4000 GB storage
- Managed
- GPU on request
About 6.2 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 Bioinformatics size up this way
Working from about 50,000 visits a month and roughly 26,667 requests a day, storage grows by roughly 120 GB a month at this size, which usually decides the build before CPU does; about 96 GB of data needs to stay in memory to keep queries fast; and each request costs real computation rather than a cache lookup, so cores matter more here than on a typical site.
- 0.6 req/sec at peak
- 96 GB working set
- 120 GB/month growth
- Linux
Which tiers suit Bioinformatics
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 | 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
Where your server runs
All 24 locations cost the same, so pick whichever sits closest to the people who will actually use the server.
Burnaby is closest to Seattle. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Burnaby ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Seattle, United States | 118 miles | 3–6 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 825 miles | 20–40 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 1,078 miles | 26–52 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,761 miles | 43–85 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 1,765 miles | 43–85 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 2,080 miles | 50–100 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 2,232 miles | 54–108 ms |
| New York, United States | 2,419 miles | 58–117 ms |
| Miami, United States | 2,796 miles | 67–135 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| Stockholm, Sweden | 4,620 miles | 112–223 ms |
| London, United Kingdom | 4,706 miles | 114–227 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 4,779 miles | 115–231 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 4,998 miles | 121–241 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 5,224 miles | 126–252 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 5,287 miles | 128–255 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 5,699 miles | 138–275 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 6,651 miles | 161–321 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 4,702 miles | 114–227 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 6,376 miles | 154–308 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 6,917 miles | 167–334 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 7,112 miles | 172–343 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 7,616 miles | 184–368 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 7,774 miles | 188–375 ms |
| Singapore | 7,973 miles | 192–385 ms |
Distances are from Burnaby. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Bioinformatics in Burnaby
The closest of our 24 data centres to Burnaby is Seattle, about 118 miles away. Choosing the closest data centre is the cheapest performance improvement available, and it costs nothing extra.
Burnaby has a population of about 249,125, which is why the medium build above is the one most likely to fit a Bioinformatics 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 Burnaby
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Burnaby | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Seattleamericas | 118 miles | 3–6 ms |
| Santa Claraamericas | 825 miles | 20–40 ms |
| Los Angelesamericas | 1,078 miles | 26–52 ms |
Burnaby 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 medium size assumed above, that is roughly 26,667 requests a day crossing that link.
Bioinformatics hosting in Burnaby — FAQs
What size server does a Bioinformatics business in Burnaby, BC need?
Where would the server for my Burnaby, BC business actually run?
Is a VPS enough for Bioinformatics, or do we need a dedicated server?
Can you host analysis pipelines for us?
Can we start smaller and grow?
Other industries in Burnaby
Same city, different workload.
Bioinformatics hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.