Oregon, United States
Server infrastructure for Bioinformatics in Oregon
What Bioinformatics actually need from a server is predictable performance under load, and enough headroom to grow into. For a small Bioinformatics business in Oregon 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 Oregon. 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.
Oregon is closest to Seattle. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Oregon ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Seattle, United States | 200 miles | 5–10 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 510 miles | 12–25 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 772 miles | 19–37 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,605 miles | 39–78 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 1,755 miles | 42–85 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 2,116 miles | 51–102 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 2,156 miles | 52–104 ms |
| New York, United States | 2,445 miles | 59–118 ms |
| Miami, United States | 2,686 miles | 65–130 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 4,877 miles | 118–235 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 6,588 miles | 159–318 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 7,221 miles | 174–349 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 7,394 miles | 179–357 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 7,647 miles | 185–369 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 7,923 miles | 191–383 ms |
| Singapore | 8,170 miles | 197–394 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| Stockholm, Sweden | 4,909 miles | 118–237 ms |
| London, United Kingdom | 4,957 miles | 120–239 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 5,041 miles | 122–243 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 5,262 miles | 127–254 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 5,442 miles | 131–263 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 5,544 miles | 134–268 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 5,985 miles | 144–289 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 6,943 miles | 168–335 ms |
Distances are from Oregon. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Bioinformatics in Oregon
The closest of our 24 data centres to Oregon is Seattle, about 200 miles away. Choosing the closest data centre is the cheapest performance improvement available, and it costs nothing extra.
Oregon has a population of about 1,187, 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 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 Oregon
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Oregon | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Seattleamericas | 200 miles | 5–10 ms |
| Santa Claraamericas | 510 miles | 12–25 ms |
| Los Angelesamericas | 772 miles | 19–37 ms |
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 Oregon — FAQs
What size server does a Bioinformatics business in Oregon need?
Where would the server for my Oregon 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 Oregon
Same city, different workload.
Bioinformatics hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.