Portland, United States
Server infrastructure for Drone Mapping in Portland
Most Drone Mapping outgrow their first server in one specific place — and it is rarely the one the plan name suggests. For a large Drone Mapping business in Portland that is about 20 Cores, 320 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 Portland. 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
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 Most likely here
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 500,000 visits a month and roughly 266,667 requests a day, storage grows by roughly 880 GB a month at this size, which usually decides the build before CPU does; about 256 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.
- 6.2 req/sec at peak
- 256 GB working set
- 880 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.
Portland is closest to Seattle. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Portland ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Seattle, United States | 145 miles | 3–7 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 566 miles | 14–27 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 826 miles | 20–40 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,631 miles | 39–79 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 1,754 miles | 42–85 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 2,108 miles | 51–102 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 2,169 miles | 52–105 ms |
| New York, United States | 2,439 miles | 59–118 ms |
| Miami, United States | 2,705 miles | 65–131 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 4,844 miles | 117–234 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 6,549 miles | 158–316 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 7,167 miles | 173–346 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 7,344 miles | 177–355 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 7,669 miles | 185–370 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 7,868 miles | 190–380 ms |
| Singapore | 8,134 miles | 196–393 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| Stockholm, Sweden | 4,858 miles | 117–235 ms |
| London, United Kingdom | 4,913 miles | 119–237 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 4,995 miles | 121–241 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 5,216 miles | 126–252 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 5,404 miles | 130–261 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 5,499 miles | 133–266 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 5,935 miles | 143–287 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 6,892 miles | 166–333 ms |
Distances are from Portland. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Drone Mapping in Portland
We work with businesses across Downtown, the Pearl District, Hawthorne, Alberta Arts and Sellwood. Portland is an independent, design-led market where authentic, fast sites win.
The closest of our 24 data centres to Portland is Seattle, about 145 miles away. Round-trip time is set by physical distance more than by anything else, so the nearest site is usually the right one.
Portland has a population of about 652,503, which is why the large 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 Portland
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Portland | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Seattleamericas | 145 miles | 3–7 ms |
| Santa Claraamericas | 566 miles | 14–27 ms |
| Los Angelesamericas | 826 miles | 20–40 ms |
Portland sits in Oregon, 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.
Drone Mapping hosting in Portland — FAQs
What size server does a Drone Mapping business in Portland, OR need?
Where would the server for my Portland, OR 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 Portland
Same city, different workload.
Drone Mapping hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.