Technology & Software
Server infrastructure for Data & Analytics
Sized from the workload rather than sold as a plan name: what Data & Analytics actually run, what that needs, and which tier it belongs on.
Recommended builds by size
Three sizes of operation, each sized from an assumed traffic figure.
Small
1–10 people · ~5,000 visits a month
VDS
- 4 Cores
- 48 GB RAM
- 450 GB storage
A single site or team, with traffic that arrives in a predictable working-hours pattern.
Medium
11–50 people · ~50,000 visits a month
Dedicated Server
- 8 Cores
- 128 GB RAM
- 1500 GB storage
A growing business running several systems, where an outage now costs real money.
Large
51+ people · ~500,000 visits a month
Bare Metal
- 28 Cores
- 448 GB RAM
- 4000 GB storage
Multiple sites or a busy platform, with traffic that spikes and an obligation to stay up.
Which tiers suit Data & Analytics
| 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. |
Data & Analytics workloads you can host
Warehouse queries scan far more data than they return, so memory bandwidth decides whether a dashboard loads in two seconds or twenty.
- Data warehouse
- ETL pipelines
- BI dashboards
- Columnar storage
- Scheduled reporting
Data & Analytics hosting by city
Each page names the closest of our 24 data centres and how far away it actually is.
- New York
- Toronto
- Los Angeles
- Montréal
- Chicago
- Vancouver
- Calgary
- Houston
- Edmonton
- Phoenix
- Ottawa
- Philadelphia
- San Antonio
- Winnipeg
- Québec City
- San Diego
- Dallas
- Hamilton
- Austin
- Kitchener
- Halifax
- San Jose
- Jacksonville
- Victoria
- Saskatoon
- Seattle
- Denver
- Regina
- Boston
- Mississauga
- Atlanta
- Brampton
- Miami
- San Francisco
- ‘Ewa Beach
- ‘Ewa Gentry
- Abbey Wood
- Abbotsford
- Aberdare
- Aberdeen
- Aberdeen
- Aberdeen
- Aberdeen
- Aberystwyth
- Abilene
- Abingdon
- Abington
- Abington
- Abu Hayl
- Accrington
- Acocks Green
- Acton
- Acton
- Acworth
- Ada
- Adams Morgan
- Addison
- Addison
- Adelaide city centre
- Adelaide Hills