South Pasadena, United States
Server infrastructure for Drone Mapping in South Pasadena
The right server for Drone Mapping is decided by the work it has to do, not by the size of the plan you happen to land on. For a medium Drone Mapping business in South Pasadena 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 South Pasadena. 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.
South Pasadena has a data centre of its own. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from South Pasadena ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Los Angeles, United States | Same city | 1–2 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 309 miles | 7–15 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 957 miles | 23–46 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,232 miles | 30–59 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 1,736 miles | 42–84 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 1,927 miles | 47–93 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 2,164 miles | 52–105 ms |
| Miami, United States | 2,331 miles | 56–113 ms |
| New York, United States | 2,439 miles | 59–118 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 5,434 miles | 131–262 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 5,512 miles | 133–266 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 5,548 miles | 134–268 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 5,774 miles | 139–279 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 5,811 miles | 140–281 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 6,030 miles | 146–291 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 6,564 miles | 158–317 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 7,536 miles | 182–364 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 5,482 miles | 132–265 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 7,240 miles | 175–350 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 7,509 miles | 181–363 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 7,990 miles | 193–386 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 8,150 miles | 197–393 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 8,691 miles | 210–420 ms |
| Singapore | 8,776 miles | 212–424 ms |
Distances are from South Pasadena. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Drone Mapping in South Pasadena
The closest of our 24 data centres to South Pasadena is Los Angeles, about 7 miles away. Round-trip time is set by physical distance more than by anything else, so the nearest site is usually the right one.
South Pasadena has a population of about 26,151, 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 South Pasadena
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from South Pasadena | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Los Angelesamericas | In your metro | 1–2 ms |
| Santa Claraamericas | 309 miles | 7–15 ms |
| Seattleamericas | 957 miles | 23–46 ms |
South Pasadena 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 South Pasadena — FAQs
What size server does a Drone Mapping business in South Pasadena, CA need?
Where would the server for my South Pasadena, 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 South Pasadena
Same city, different workload.
Drone Mapping hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.