Caterham, United Kingdom
Server infrastructure for Bioinformatics in Caterham
The right server for Bioinformatics is decided by the work it has to do, not by the size of the plan you happen to land on. For a small Bioinformatics business in Caterham that is about 4 Cores, 48 GB of memory and 700 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 Caterham. 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 Most likely here
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
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 5,000 visits a month and roughly 2,667 requests a day, storage grows by roughly 42 GB a month at this size, which usually decides the build before CPU does; about 34 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.
- 0.1 req/sec at peak
- 33.6 GB working set
- 42 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.
Caterham has a data centre of its own. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Caterham ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | Same city | 1–2 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 226 miles | 5–11 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 392 miles | 9–19 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 584 miles | 14–28 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 770 miles | 19–37 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 900 miles | 22–43 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 1,294 miles | 31–62 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 2,202 miles | 53–106 ms |
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| New York, United States | 3,468 miles | 84–167 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 3,558 miles | 86–172 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 3,957 miles | 96–191 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 4,214 miles | 102–203 ms |
| Miami, United States | 4,433 miles | 107–214 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 4,757 miles | 115–230 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 4,798 miles | 116–232 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 5,377 miles | 130–260 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 5,452 miles | 132–263 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Delhi NCR, India | 4,182 miles | 101–202 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 4,466 miles | 108–216 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 4,949 miles | 119–239 ms |
| Tokyo, Japan | 5,952 miles | 144–287 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 5,986 miles | 145–289 ms |
| Singapore | 6,742 miles | 163–325 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 10,565 miles | 255–510 ms |
Distances are from Caterham. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Bioinformatics in Caterham
The closest of our 24 data centres to Caterham is London, about 16 miles away. Round-trip time is set by physical distance more than by anything else, so the nearest site is usually the right one.
Caterham has a population of about 20,957, which is why the small 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 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 Caterham
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Caterham | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Londonemea | In your metro | 1–2 ms |
| Amsterdamemea | 226 miles | 5–11 ms |
| Frankfurtemea | 392 miles | 9–19 ms |
Caterham sits in England, 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 small size assumed above, that is roughly 2,667 requests a day crossing that link.
Bioinformatics hosting in Caterham — FAQs
What size server does a Bioinformatics business in Caterham, England need?
Where would the server for my Caterham, England 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 Caterham
Same city, different workload.
Bioinformatics hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.