Raleigh, United States
Server infrastructure for Drone Mapping in Raleigh
Infrastructure for Drone Mapping is a question of matching the machine to the application, then putting it near the people using it. For a large Drone Mapping business in Raleigh 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 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 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.
Raleigh is closest to Atlanta. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Raleigh ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Atlanta, United States | 355 miles | 9–17 ms |
| New York, United States | 424 miles | 10–20 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 546 miles | 13–26 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 641 miles | 15–31 ms |
| Miami, United States | 698 miles | 17–34 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,056 miles | 25–51 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 2,232 miles | 54–108 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 2,362 miles | 57–114 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 2,385 miles | 58–115 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 3,874 miles | 94–187 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 3,962 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 | 6,920 miles | 167–334 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 7,728 miles | 187–373 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 8,214 miles | 198–397 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 8,317 miles | 201–402 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 8,337 miles | 201–402 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 9,637 miles | 233–465 ms |
| Singapore | 9,867 miles | 238–476 ms |
Distances are from Raleigh. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Drone Mapping in Raleigh
The closest of our 24 data centres to Raleigh is Atlanta, about 355 miles away. Choosing the closest data centre is the cheapest performance improvement available, and it costs nothing extra.
Raleigh has a population of about 482,295, 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/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 Raleigh
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Raleigh | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Atlantaamericas | 355 miles | 9–17 ms |
| New Yorkamericas | 424 miles | 10–20 ms |
| Torontoamericas | 546 miles | 13–26 ms |
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.
Drone Mapping hosting in Raleigh — FAQs
What size server does a Drone Mapping business in Raleigh, NC need?
Where would the server for my Raleigh, NC 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 Raleigh
Same city, different workload.
Drone Mapping hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.