Merced, United States
Server infrastructure for Bioinformatics in Merced
Infrastructure for Bioinformatics is a question of matching the machine to the application, then putting it near the people using it. For a medium Bioinformatics business in Merced 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 Merced. 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.
Merced is closest to Santa Clara. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Merced ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Santa Clara, United States | 81 miles | 2–4 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 257 miles | 6–12 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 718 miles | 17–35 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,372 miles | 33–66 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 1,766 miles | 43–85 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 2,032 miles | 49–98 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 2,181 miles | 53–105 ms |
| New York, United States | 2,477 miles | 60–120 ms |
| Miami, United States | 2,482 miles | 60–120 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 5,248 miles | 127–253 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 6,998 miles | 169–338 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 7,500 miles | 181–362 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 7,743 miles | 187–374 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 7,894 miles | 191–381 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 8,445 miles | 204–408 ms |
| Singapore | 8,547 miles | 206–413 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 5,324 miles | 129–257 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 5,352 miles | 129–258 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 5,427 miles | 131–262 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 5,651 miles | 136–273 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 5,742 miles | 139–277 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 5,918 miles | 143–286 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 6,416 miles | 155–310 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 7,384 miles | 178–357 ms |
Distances are from Merced. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Bioinformatics in Merced
The closest of our 24 data centres to Merced is Santa Clara, about 81 miles away. Every kilometre between your users and the server is latency you cannot optimise away in software.
Merced has a population of about 82,436, 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/Los Angeles, 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 Merced
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Merced | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Santa Claraamericas | 81 miles | 2–4 ms |
| Los Angelesamericas | 257 miles | 6–12 ms |
| Seattleamericas | 718 miles | 17–35 ms |
Merced sits in California, 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 Merced — FAQs
What size server does a Bioinformatics business in Merced, CA need?
Where would the server for my Merced, CA 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 Merced
Same city, different workload.