Ottawa, Canada
Server infrastructure for Freelance Developers in Ottawa
Sizing infrastructure for Freelance Developers starts with the workload, then works back to cores, memory and disk. For a large Freelance Developers business in Ottawa that is about Single Core, 12 GB of memory and 80 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 Ottawa. 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 Freelance Developers
1–10 people · ~5,000 visits a month
On request
Shared Hosting
- Single Core
- 4 GB RAM
- 30 GB storage
About 0.1 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 0.7 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Medium Freelance Developers
11–50 people · ~50,000 visits a month
$77.15 USD USD
per month · VPS
- Single Core
- 6 GB RAM
- 40 GB storage
- Managed
About 1.5 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 2 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Large Freelance Developers Most likely here
51+ people · ~500,000 visits a month
$129.80 USD USD
per month · VPS
- Single Core
- 12 GB RAM
- 80 GB storage
- Managed
About 14.5 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 8 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.
Which tiers suit Freelance Developers
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 | Recommended | A brochure site with light traffic runs comfortably on shared hosting, and the managed platform means no server to look after. |
| VPS Flexible virtual infrastructure with full root access | Recommended | A VPS gives you root, your own PHP and Nginx versions, and room for the site to grow past what shared hosting allows. |
| VDS Virtual server with resources pinned to you alone | Workable | Worth moving to once the site fronts an application rather than pages, or when a slow neighbour has cost you a lead. |
| Dedicated Server An entire physical server, configured to your specification | Workable | More machine than a brochure site needs, but the right answer when it sits alongside other systems on the same box. |
| Bare Metal Physical compute for sustained, demanding workloads | Not this one | Bare metal is sized for sustained heavy compute; a brochure site would leave almost all of it idle. |
Freelance Developers workloads you can host
Small, predictable and mostly idle — the machine is a workspace rather than a production platform.
- Client projects
- Staging sites
- Git repositories
- Portfolio site
Where your server runs
All 24 locations cost the same, so pick whichever sits closest to the people who will actually use the server.
Ottawa is closest to Toronto. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Ottawa ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Toronto, Canada | 218 miles | 5–11 ms |
| New York, United States | 336 miles | 8–16 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 644 miles | 16–31 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 928 miles | 22–45 ms |
| Miami, United States | 1,380 miles | 33–67 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,422 miles | 34–69 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 2,189 miles | 53–106 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 2,362 miles | 57–114 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 2,427 miles | 59–117 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 3,332 miles | 80–161 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 3,500 miles | 84–169 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 3,536 miles | 85–171 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 3,718 miles | 90–179 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 3,725 miles | 90–180 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 3,906 miles | 94–189 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 4,607 miles | 111–222 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 5,541 miles | 134–268 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 6,416 miles | 155–310 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 7,055 miles | 170–341 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 7,564 miles | 183–365 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 7,634 miles | 184–369 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 7,716 miles | 186–373 ms |
| Singapore | 9,206 miles | 222–444 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 9,857 miles | 238–476 ms |
Distances are from Ottawa. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Freelance Developers in Ottawa
We work with businesses across Downtown / ByWard Market, Centretown, Kanata, Westboro and Nepean. Ottawa is a stable, bilingual capital market where credibility and clarity convert.
The closest of our 24 data centres to Ottawa is Toronto, about 218 miles away. Choosing the closest data centre is the cheapest performance improvement available, and it costs nothing extra.
Ottawa has a population of about 1,017,449, which is why the large build above is the one most likely to fit a Freelance Developers business here — though the other two are a click away if it does not. Local time is America/Toronto, 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 Ottawa
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Ottawa | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Torontoamericas | 218 miles | 5–11 ms |
| New Yorkamericas | 336 miles | 8–16 ms |
| Chicagoamericas | 644 miles | 16–31 ms |
Ottawa sits in Ontario, 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 416,667 requests a day crossing that link.
Freelance Developers hosting in Ottawa — FAQs
What size server does a Freelance Developers business in Ottawa, ON need?
Where would the server for my Ottawa, ON business actually run?
Is a VPS enough for Freelance Developers, or do we need a dedicated server?
Can you host client projects for us?
Can we start smaller and grow?
Other industries in Ottawa
Same city, different workload.
Freelance Developers hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.