Chico, United States
Server infrastructure for Drone Mapping in Chico
Sizing infrastructure for Drone Mapping starts with the workload, then works back to cores, memory and disk. For a medium Drone Mapping business in Chico that is about 6 Cores, 96 GB of memory and 3000 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 Chico. 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 Drone Mapping
1–10 people · ~5,000 visits a month
$502.60 USD USD
per month · VDS
- 2 Cores
- 32 GB RAM
- 1500 GB storage
- GPU on request
About 0.1 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 22.4 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Medium Drone Mapping Most likely here
11–50 people · ~50,000 visits a month
$1,161.40 USD USD
per month · Dedicated Server
- 6 Cores
- 96 GB RAM
- 3000 GB storage
- Managed
- GPU on request
About 0.6 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 64 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Large Drone Mapping
51+ people · ~500,000 visits a month
$3,070.30 USD USD
per month · Bare Metal
- 20 Cores
- 320 GB RAM
- 4000 GB storage
- Managed
- GPU on request
About 6.2 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 256 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 Drone Mapping size up this way
Working from about 50,000 visits a month and roughly 26,667 requests a day, storage grows by roughly 220 GB a month at this size, which usually decides the build before CPU does; about 64 GB of data needs to stay in memory to keep queries fast; each request costs real computation rather than a cache lookup, so cores matter more here than on a typical site; and a GPU is genuinely used rather than optional, and is quoted separately.
- 0.6 req/sec at peak
- 64 GB working set
- 220 GB/month growth
- Linux
Which tiers suit Drone Mapping
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. |
Drone Mapping workloads you can host
Photogrammetry turns a thousand photographs into one model over many GPU-hours per flight.
- Photogrammetry processing
- Orthomosaic generation
- Flight logs
- Point cloud output
- Client deliverables
Where your server runs
All 24 locations cost the same, so pick whichever sits closest to the people who will actually use the server.
Chico is closest to Santa Clara. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Chico ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Santa Clara, United States | 164 miles | 4–8 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 440 miles | 11–21 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 545 miles | 13–26 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,470 miles | 35–71 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 1,783 miles | 43–86 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 2,099 miles | 51–101 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 2,183 miles | 53–105 ms |
| New York, United States | 2,493 miles | 60–120 ms |
| Miami, United States | 2,578 miles | 62–124 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 5,094 miles | 123–246 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 6,835 miles | 165–330 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 7,517 miles | 181–363 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 7,561 miles | 183–365 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 7,712 miles | 186–372 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 8,264 miles | 200–399 ms |
| Singapore | 8,394 miles | 203–405 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| Stockholm, Sweden | 5,220 miles | 126–252 ms |
| London, United Kingdom | 5,224 miles | 126–252 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 5,319 miles | 128–257 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 5,542 miles | 134–268 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 5,669 miles | 137–274 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 5,816 miles | 140–281 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 6,290 miles | 152–304 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 7,254 miles | 175–350 ms |
Distances are from Chico. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Drone Mapping in Chico
The closest of our 24 data centres to Chico is Santa Clara, about 164 miles away. Choosing the closest data centre is the cheapest performance improvement available, and it costs nothing extra.
Chico has a population of about 121,345, which is why the medium build above is the one most likely to fit a Drone Mapping 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 Chico
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Chico | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Santa Claraamericas | 164 miles | 4–8 ms |
| Los Angelesamericas | 440 miles | 11–21 ms |
| Seattleamericas | 545 miles | 13–26 ms |
Chico 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.
Drone Mapping hosting in Chico — FAQs
What size server does a Drone Mapping business in Chico, CA need?
Where would the server for my Chico, CA business actually run?
Is a VPS enough for Drone Mapping, or do we need a dedicated server?
Can you host photogrammetry processing for us?
Can we start smaller and grow?
Other industries in Chico
Same city, different workload.