West Raleigh, United States
Server infrastructure for Bioinformatics in West Raleigh
Sizing infrastructure for Bioinformatics starts with the workload, then works back to cores, memory and disk. For a large Bioinformatics business in West Raleigh that is about 28 Cores, 448 GB of memory and 4000 GB of storage on Bare Metal.
- ✓ 5 infrastructure tiers
- ✓ Sized for your workload, not a plan name
- ✓ Same price in all 24 locations
Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from West Raleigh. 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
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 Most likely here
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 500,000 visits a month and roughly 266,667 requests a day, storage grows by roughly 480 GB a month at this size, which usually decides the build before CPU does; about 384 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.
- 6.2 req/sec at peak
- 384 GB working set
- 480 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.
West Raleigh is closest to Atlanta. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from West Raleigh ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Atlanta, United States | 354 miles | 9–17 ms |
| New York, United States | 424 miles | 10–20 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 545 miles | 13–26 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 640 miles | 15–31 ms |
| Miami, United States | 699 miles | 17–34 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,054 miles | 25–51 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 2,230 miles | 54–108 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 2,360 miles | 57–114 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 2,384 miles | 58–115 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 3,875 miles | 94–187 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 3,963 miles | 96–191 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 4,060 miles | 98–196 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 4,269 miles | 103–206 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 4,351 miles | 105–210 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 4,423 miles | 107–214 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 5,170 miles | 125–250 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 6,071 miles | 147–293 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 6,919 miles | 167–334 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 7,727 miles | 187–373 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 8,213 miles | 198–397 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 8,316 miles | 201–402 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 8,335 miles | 201–402 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 9,636 miles | 233–465 ms |
| Singapore | 9,866 miles | 238–476 ms |
Distances are from West Raleigh. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Bioinformatics in West Raleigh
The closest of our 24 data centres to West Raleigh is Atlanta, about 354 miles away. Round-trip time is set by physical distance more than by anything else, so the nearest site is usually the right one.
West Raleigh has a population of about 338,759, which is why the large 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/New York, 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 West Raleigh
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from West Raleigh | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Atlantaamericas | 354 miles | 9–17 ms |
| New Yorkamericas | 424 miles | 10–20 ms |
| Torontoamericas | 545 miles | 13–26 ms |
West Raleigh sits in North Carolina, 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 large size assumed above, that is roughly 266,667 requests a day crossing that link.
Bioinformatics hosting in West Raleigh — FAQs
What size server does a Bioinformatics business in West Raleigh, NC need?
Where would the server for my West Raleigh, NC 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 West Raleigh
Same city, different workload.
Bioinformatics hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.