Vancouver, Canada
Server infrastructure for E-commerce Businesses in Vancouver
What E-commerce Businesses actually need from a server is predictable performance under load, and enough headroom to grow into. For a large E-commerce & Retail business in Vancouver that is about 6 Cores, 48 GB of memory and 500 GB of storage on VDS.
- ✓ 5 infrastructure tiers
- ✓ Sized for your workload, not a plan name
- ✓ Same price in all 24 locations
Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Vancouver. 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 E-commerce & Retail
1–10 people · ~5,000 visits a month
$81.20 USD USD
per month · VPS
- Single Core
- 6 GB RAM
- 80 GB storage
About 1.0 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 2.8 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Medium E-commerce & Retail
11–50 people · ~50,000 visits a month
$136.55 USD USD
per month · VPS
- Single Core
- 12 GB RAM
- 150 GB storage
- Managed
About 10.4 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 8 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Large E-commerce & Retail Most likely here
51+ people · ~500,000 visits a month
$499.90 USD USD
per month · VDS
- 6 Cores
- 48 GB RAM
- 500 GB storage
- Managed
About 104.2 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 32 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 E-commerce Businesses size up this way
Working from about 500,000 visits a month and roughly 1,800,000 requests a day, peaks run about 5× the average hour, so the build is sized for the busiest moment rather than the typical one.
- 104.2 req/sec at peak
- 32 GB working set
- 32 GB/month growth
- Linux
Which tiers suit E-commerce Businesses
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 | Workable | Fine for a first storefront with a small catalogue, but checkout under load is where shared hosting shows its limits. |
| VPS Flexible virtual infrastructure with full root access | Recommended | Enough headroom for a catalogue, a cart and a payment gateway, with the caching layers a store needs to stay quick. |
| VDS Virtual server with resources pinned to you alone | Recommended | Guaranteed CPU is what keeps checkout responsive during a sale, when traffic arrives all at once rather than evenly. |
| Dedicated Server An entire physical server, configured to your specification | Recommended | The right tier for a high-traffic store, or one whose database has outgrown what a virtual instance can cache. |
| Bare Metal Physical compute for sustained, demanding workloads | Workable | Reserved for very large catalogues and enterprise commerce platforms running their own search and queue tiers. |
E-commerce Businesses workloads you can host
- Storefront
- Product catalogue
- Checkout & payments
- Inventory
- Order management
- Customer accounts
E-commerce & Retail in Vancouver, business by business
These are not the same workload. Sized at the large band, here is what each one actually needs.
| Business | Build | Tier | What decides it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Online Stores | 6 vCPU · 48 GB · 500 GB | VDS | Checkout is the only page that must never be slow: a timeout at payment is a sale that does not come back. |
| Marketplaces | 8 vCPU · 128 GB · 700 GB | Dedicated Server | Every seller writes to the catalogue as well as reading it, so the database takes traffic from both sides at o... |
| Retail Stores | 6 vCPU · 48 GB · 500 GB | VDS | Tills must keep working when the connection does not, so the server is the reconciliation point rather than th... |
| Supermarkets | 16 vCPU · 196 GB · 800 GB | Dedicated Server | Delivery-slot booking behaves like a ticket sale — everyone wants the same Saturday morning. |
| Fashion Retail | 8 vCPU · 48 GB · 2000 GB | VDS | Variants multiply fast — one garment in eight sizes and six colours is forty-eight rows and forty-eight images... |
| Electronics Retail | 12 vCPU · 96 GB · 600 GB | Dedicated Server | Launch days and price drops arrive as a wall of traffic against a catalogue people compare rather than browse. |
| Furniture Stores | 12 vCPU · 48 GB · 3000 GB | VDS | The images are the product, and they are large — most of the bandwidth here is pictures rather than pages. |
| Jewellery Stores | 8 vCPU · 48 GB · 1500 GB | VDS | Low volume, high value: the page is a showroom and the transaction is usually a conversation. |
| Subscription Boxes | 8 vCPU · 48 GB · 500 GB | VDS | Everything happens on renewal day — billing, picking and dispatch all land together each month. |
| B2B Commerce | 8 vCPU · 96 GB · 700 GB | Dedicated Server | Prices are per-customer rather than per-product, so nothing on the catalogue can be cached the way a retail st... |
| POS Systems | 12 vCPU · 128 GB · 1000 GB | Dedicated Server | Hundreds of terminals reconnecting after a network blip all replay their queues at once. |
Where your server runs
All 24 locations cost the same, so pick whichever sits closest to the people who will actually use the server.
Vancouver is closest to Seattle. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Vancouver ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Seattle, United States | 119 miles | 3–6 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 824 miles | 20–40 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 1,079 miles | 26–52 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,767 miles | 43–85 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 1,772 miles | 43–86 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 2,087 miles | 50–101 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 2,239 miles | 54–108 ms |
| New York, United States | 2,426 miles | 59–117 ms |
| Miami, United States | 2,802 miles | 68–135 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| Stockholm, Sweden | 4,623 miles | 112–223 ms |
| London, United Kingdom | 4,711 miles | 114–227 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 4,784 miles | 115–231 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 5,003 miles | 121–242 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 5,230 miles | 126–253 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 5,292 miles | 128–256 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 5,703 miles | 138–275 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 6,655 miles | 161–321 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 4,696 miles | 113–227 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 6,371 miles | 154–308 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 6,916 miles | 167–334 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 7,110 miles | 172–343 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 7,615 miles | 184–368 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 7,767 miles | 187–375 ms |
| Singapore | 7,968 miles | 192–385 ms |
Distances are from Vancouver. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
E-commerce Businesses in Vancouver
We work with businesses across Downtown, Gastown, Yaletown, Kitsilano and Burnaby. Vancouver is design-conscious and mobile-first, with high expectations for site quality.
The closest of our 24 data centres to Vancouver is Seattle, about 119 miles away. Round-trip time is set by physical distance more than by anything else, so the nearest site is usually the right one.
Vancouver has a population of about 662,248, which is why the large build above is the one most likely to fit a E-commerce & Retail business here — though the other two are a click away if it does not. Local time is America/Vancouver, 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 PIPEDA. Pricing is quoted in CAD, and the figure is the same wherever the machine physically sits.
Network reach from Vancouver
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Vancouver | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Seattleamericas | 119 miles | 3–6 ms |
| Santa Claraamericas | 824 miles | 20–40 ms |
| Los Angelesamericas | 1,079 miles | 26–52 ms |
Vancouver sits in British Columbia, 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 1,800,000 requests a day crossing that link.
E-commerce Businesses hosting in Vancouver — FAQs
What size server does a E-commerce & Retail business in Vancouver, BC need?
Where would the server for my Vancouver, BC business actually run?
Is a VPS enough for E-commerce Businesses, or do we need a dedicated server?
Can you host storefront for us?
Can we start smaller and grow?
Other industries in Vancouver
Same city, different workload.
E-commerce Businesses hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.