Holiday, United States
Server infrastructure for EdTech in Holiday
Sizing infrastructure for EdTech starts with the workload, then works back to cores, memory and disk. For a small EdTech business in Holiday that is about Single Core, 16 GB of memory and 100 GB of storage on VPS.
- ✓ 5 infrastructure tiers
- ✓ Sized for your workload, not a plan name
- ✓ Same price in all 24 locations
Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Holiday. 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 EdTech Most likely here
1–10 people · ~5,000 visits a month
$164.90 USD USD
per month · VPS
- Single Core
- 16 GB RAM
- 100 GB storage
About 2.8 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 11.2 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Medium EdTech
11–50 people · ~50,000 visits a month
$432.40 USD USD
per month · VDS
- 4 Cores
- 48 GB RAM
- 250 GB storage
- Managed
About 27.8 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 32 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Large EdTech
51+ people · ~500,000 visits a month
$1,721.65 USD USD
per month · Dedicated Server
- 16 Cores
- 196 GB RAM
- 900 GB storage
- Managed
About 277.8 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 128 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 EdTech size up this way
Working from about 5,000 visits a month and roughly 40,000 requests a day, peaks run about 6× the average hour, so the build is sized for the busiest moment rather than the typical one; and about 11 GB of data needs to stay in memory to keep queries fast.
- 2.8 req/sec at peak
- 11.2 GB working set
- 4 GB/month growth
- Linux
Which tiers suit EdTech
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 | Shared hosting cannot run background workers, queues or long-lived processes, which a SaaS application depends on. |
| VPS Flexible virtual infrastructure with full root access | Recommended | The natural home for an early-stage product: root access, your own runtime, and the ability to resize as you grow. |
| VDS Virtual server with resources pinned to you alone | Recommended | Pinned resources give you the predictable latency your customers will hold you to in an SLA. |
| Dedicated Server An entire physical server, configured to your specification | Recommended | Right once the database and the application tier are competing for the same memory on a single virtual instance. |
| Bare Metal Physical compute for sustained, demanding workloads | Workable | For platforms running their own virtualization, or holding a large working set entirely in memory. |
EdTech workloads you can host
School timetables mean every tenant peaks at the same hour of the same weekday.
- Multi-tenant learning platform
- Content authoring
- Analytics & reporting
- LTI/SSO integrations
- Assessment engine
Where your server runs
All 24 locations cost the same, so pick whichever sits closest to the people who will actually use the server.
Holiday is closest to Miami. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Holiday ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Miami, United States | 230 miles | 6–11 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 396 miles | 10–19 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 894 miles | 22–43 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 985 miles | 24–48 ms |
| New York, United States | 997 miles | 24–48 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 1,085 miles | 26–52 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 2,128 miles | 51–103 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 2,346 miles | 57–113 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 2,502 miles | 60–121 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 4,414 miles | 107–213 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 4,442 miles | 107–214 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 4,606 miles | 111–222 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 4,810 miles | 116–232 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 4,921 miles | 119–238 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 4,946 miles | 119–239 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 5,713 miles | 138–276 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 6,592 miles | 159–318 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 7,232 miles | 175–349 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 8,303 miles | 200–401 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 8,769 miles | 212–423 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 8,787 miles | 212–424 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 8,880 miles | 214–429 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 9,255 miles | 223–447 ms |
| Singapore | 10,350 miles | 250–500 ms |
Distances are from Holiday. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
EdTech in Holiday
The closest of our 24 data centres to Holiday is Miami, about 230 miles away. Choosing the closest data centre is the cheapest performance improvement available, and it costs nothing extra.
Holiday has a population of about 22,403, which is why the small build above is the one most likely to fit a EdTech 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 Holiday
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Holiday | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Miamiamericas | 230 miles | 6–11 ms |
| Atlantaamericas | 396 miles | 10–19 ms |
| Dallasamericas | 894 miles | 22–43 ms |
Holiday sits in Florida, 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 small size assumed above, that is roughly 40,000 requests a day crossing that link.
EdTech hosting in Holiday — FAQs
What size server does a EdTech business in Holiday, FL need?
Where would the server for my Holiday, FL business actually run?
Is a VPS enough for EdTech, or do we need a dedicated server?
Can you host multi-tenant learning platform for us?
Can we start smaller and grow?
Other industries in Holiday
Same city, different workload.
EdTech hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.