Energy & Utilities
Server infrastructure for Energy Management
Sized from the workload rather than sold as a plan name: what Energy Management actually run, what that needs, and which tier it belongs on.
Recommended builds by size
Three sizes of operation, each sized from an assumed traffic figure.
Small
1–10 people · ~5,000 visits a month
VDS
- 2 Cores
- 24 GB RAM
- 600 GB storage
A single site or team, with traffic that arrives in a predictable working-hours pattern.
Medium
11–50 people · ~50,000 visits a month
VDS
- 4 Cores
- 64 GB RAM
- 2000 GB storage
A growing business running several systems, where an outage now costs real money.
Large
51+ people · ~500,000 visits a month
Dedicated Server
- 16 Cores
- 256 GB RAM
- 4000 GB storage
Multiple sites or a busy platform, with traffic that spikes and an obligation to stay up.
Which tiers suit Energy Management
| Infrastructure | Verdict | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Shared Hosting Managed space on a shared server | Not this one | An ERP or practice-management system needs a database tuned to its own workload, which a shared platform will not allow. |
| VPS Flexible virtual infrastructure with full root access | Workable | Enough for a small team, though the working set of a records system tends to outgrow a modest instance quickly. |
| VDS Virtual server with resources pinned to you alone | Recommended | Guaranteed memory is what keeps the database in cache, which is the single biggest factor in how fast these systems feel. |
| Dedicated Server An entire physical server, configured to your specification | Recommended | The usual answer: a records system rewards a large, uncontended memory pool and consistent disk latency. |
| Bare Metal Physical compute for sustained, demanding workloads | Workable | For large deployments, or where the database and application tiers are virtualized onto one physical host. |
Energy Management workloads you can host
Value comes from comparing this half hour with the same half hour last year, which means keeping all of it.
- Consumption monitoring
- Building analytics
- Tariff optimisation
- Carbon reporting
- Alerting
Energy Management hosting by city
Each page names the closest of our 24 data centres and how far away it actually is.
- New York
- Toronto
- Los Angeles
- Montréal
- Chicago
- Vancouver
- Calgary
- Houston
- Edmonton
- Phoenix
- Ottawa
- Philadelphia
- San Antonio
- Winnipeg
- Québec City
- San Diego
- Dallas
- Hamilton
- Austin
- Kitchener
- Halifax
- San Jose
- Jacksonville
- Victoria
- Saskatoon
- Seattle
- Denver
- Regina
- Boston
- Mississauga
- Atlanta
- Brampton
- Miami
- San Francisco
- ‘Ewa Beach
- ‘Ewa Gentry
- Abbey Wood
- Abbotsford
- Aberdare
- Aberdeen
- Aberdeen
- Aberdeen
- Aberdeen
- Aberystwyth
- Abilene
- Abingdon
- Abington
- Abington
- Abu Hayl
- Accrington
- Acocks Green
- Acton
- Acton
- Acworth
- Ada
- Adams Morgan
- Addison
- Addison
- Adelaide city centre
- Adelaide Hills