Royston, United Kingdom
Server infrastructure for Freelance Developers in Royston
Sizing infrastructure for Freelance Developers starts with the workload, then works back to cores, memory and disk. For a small Freelance Developers business in Royston that is about Single Core, 4 GB of memory and 30 GB of storage on Shared Hosting.
- ✓ 5 infrastructure tiers
- ✓ Sized for your workload, not a plan name
- ✓ Same price in all 24 locations
Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Royston. 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 Most likely here
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
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.
Royston is closest to London. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Royston ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 38 miles | 1–2 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 210 miles | 5–10 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 401 miles | 10–19 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 618 miles | 15–30 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 822 miles | 20–40 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 861 miles | 21–42 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 1,303 miles | 31–63 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 2,221 miles | 54–107 ms |
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| New York, United States | 3,454 miles | 83–167 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 3,538 miles | 85–171 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 3,934 miles | 95–190 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 4,199 miles | 101–203 ms |
| Miami, United States | 4,427 miles | 107–214 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 4,735 miles | 114–229 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 4,757 miles | 115–230 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 5,341 miles | 129–258 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 5,419 miles | 131–262 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Delhi NCR, India | 4,171 miles | 101–201 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 4,465 miles | 108–216 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 4,935 miles | 119–238 ms |
| Tokyo, Japan | 5,905 miles | 143–285 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 5,956 miles | 144–288 ms |
| Singapore | 6,729 miles | 162–325 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 10,537 miles | 254–509 ms |
Distances are from Royston. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Freelance Developers in Royston
The closest of our 24 data centres to Royston is London, about 38 miles away. Round-trip time is set by physical distance more than by anything else, so the nearest site is usually the right one.
Royston has a population of about 15,781, which is why the small 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 Europe/London, 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 the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018. Pricing is quoted in GBP, and the figure is the same wherever the machine physically sits.
Network reach from Royston
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Royston | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Londonemea | 38 miles | 1–2 ms |
| Amsterdamemea | 210 miles | 5–10 ms |
| Frankfurtemea | 401 miles | 10–19 ms |
Royston sits in England, 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 4,167 requests a day crossing that link.
Freelance Developers hosting in Royston — FAQs
What size server does a Freelance Developers business in Royston, England need?
Where would the server for my Royston, England 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 Royston
Same city, different workload.
Freelance Developers hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.