Kent, United States
Server infrastructure for Cafés in Kent
Most Cafés outgrow their first server in one specific place — and it is rarely the one the plan name suggests. For a medium Cafés business in Kent that is about Single Core, 6 GB of memory and 80 GB of storage on VPS.
- ✓ 5 infrastructure tiers
- ✓ Sized for your workload, not a plan name
- ✓ Same price in all 24 locations
Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Kent. 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 Cafés
1–10 people · ~5,000 visits a month
On request
Shared Hosting
- Single Core
- 4 GB RAM
- 40 GB storage
About 1.0 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 0.7 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Medium Cafés Most likely here
11–50 people · ~50,000 visits a month
$81.20 USD USD
per month · VPS
- Single Core
- 6 GB RAM
- 80 GB storage
- Managed
About 9.5 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 2 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Large Cafés
51+ people · ~500,000 visits a month
$220.25 USD USD
per month · VPS
- 4 Cores
- 16 GB RAM
- 200 GB storage
- Managed
About 94.5 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 8 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 Cafés size up this way
Working from about 50,000 visits a month and roughly 116,667 requests a day, peaks run about 7× the average hour, so the build is sized for the busiest moment rather than the typical one.
- 9.5 req/sec at peak
- 2 GB working set
- 3 GB/month growth
- Linux
Which tiers suit Cafés
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 | Workable | Workable for a single small property or practice, though a shared database is the first thing to strain when bookings cluster. |
| VPS Flexible virtual infrastructure with full root access | Recommended | A VPS handles a booking engine and its database comfortably, with predictable performance when enquiries spike. |
| VDS Virtual server with resources pinned to you alone | Recommended | Pinned resources matter here: a reservation that times out at the payment step is a booking you never see. |
| Dedicated Server An entire physical server, configured to your specification | Workable | Right once you are running several properties, or a property management system alongside the public site. |
| Bare Metal Physical compute for sustained, demanding workloads | Not this one | Reservation workloads are database-bound rather than compute-bound, so the extra physical capacity goes unused. |
Cafés workloads you can host
The morning rush is short, concentrated and unforgiving of a slow order screen.
- Order-ahead
- Loyalty stamps
- Menu & allergen info
- Table service
- Opening hours
Where your server runs
All 24 locations cost the same, so pick whichever sits closest to the people who will actually use the server.
Kent has a data centre of its own. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Kent ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Seattle, United States | Same city | 1–2 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 693 miles | 17–33 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 944 miles | 23–46 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,668 miles | 40–81 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 1,728 miles | 42–83 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 2,064 miles | 50–100 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 2,171 miles | 52–105 ms |
| New York, United States | 2,399 miles | 58–116 ms |
| Miami, United States | 2,722 miles | 66–131 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| Stockholm, Sweden | 4,730 miles | 114–228 ms |
| London, United Kingdom | 4,795 miles | 116–231 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 4,874 miles | 118–235 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 5,094 miles | 123–246 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 5,296 miles | 128–256 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 5,380 miles | 130–260 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 5,808 miles | 140–280 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 6,764 miles | 163–327 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 4,796 miles | 116–232 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 6,484 miles | 157–313 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 7,051 miles | 170–340 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 7,242 miles | 175–350 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 7,746 miles | 187–374 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 7,750 miles | 187–374 ms |
| Singapore | 8,077 miles | 195–390 ms |
Distances are from Kent. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Cafés in Kent
The closest of our 24 data centres to Kent is Seattle, about 16 miles away. Every kilometre between your users and the server is latency you cannot optimise away in software.
Kent has a population of about 126,952, which is why the medium build above is the one most likely to fit a Cafés 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 Kent
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Kent | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Seattleamericas | In your metro | 1–2 ms |
| Santa Claraamericas | 693 miles | 17–33 ms |
| Los Angelesamericas | 944 miles | 23–46 ms |
Kent sits in Washington, 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 116,667 requests a day crossing that link.
Cafés hosting in Kent — FAQs
What size server does a Cafés business in Kent, WA need?
Where would the server for my Kent, WA business actually run?
Is a VPS enough for Cafés, or do we need a dedicated server?
Can you host order-ahead for us?
Can we start smaller and grow?
Other industries in Kent
Same city, different workload.
Cafés hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.