Asheville, United States
Server infrastructure for Genomics in Asheville
There is no single correct server for Genomics; there is a correct one for the workload, the volume and the budget. For a medium Genomics business in Asheville that is about 16 Cores, 196 GB of memory and 4000 GB of storage on Dedicated Server.
- ✓ 5 infrastructure tiers
- ✓ Sized for your workload, not a plan name
- ✓ Same price in all 24 locations
Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Asheville. 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 Genomics
1–10 people · ~5,000 visits a month
$803.65 USD USD
per month · VDS
- 4 Cores
- 48 GB RAM
- 3000 GB storage
- GPU on request
About 0.1 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 44.8 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Medium Genomics Most likely here
11–50 people · ~50,000 visits a month
$2,140.15 USD USD
per month · Dedicated Server
- 16 Cores
- 196 GB RAM
- 4000 GB storage
- Managed
- GPU on request
About 0.5 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 128 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Large Genomics
51+ people · ~500,000 visits a month
$4,549.90 USD USD
per month · Bare Metal
- 32 Cores
- 512 GB RAM
- 4000 GB storage
- Managed
- GPU on request
About 4.6 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 512 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 Genomics size up this way
Working from about 50,000 visits a month and roughly 26,667 requests a day, storage grows by roughly 500 GB a month at this size, which usually decides the build before CPU does; about 128 GB of data needs to stay in memory to keep queries fast; and each request costs real computation rather than a cache lookup, so cores matter more here than on a typical site.
- 0.5 req/sec at peak
- 128 GB working set
- 500 GB/month growth
- Linux
Which tiers suit Genomics
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 | There is no version of this workload that fits on shared hosting. |
| VPS Flexible virtual infrastructure with full root access | Workable | Useful for development, notebooks and light inference, but not for training or sustained compute. |
| VDS Virtual server with resources pinned to you alone | Workable | Suits CPU-bound preprocessing and data preparation with a guaranteed share of the machine. |
| Dedicated Server An entire physical server, configured to your specification | Recommended | Production compute wants the whole machine, with memory bandwidth that is not being shared. |
| Bare Metal Physical compute for sustained, demanding workloads | Recommended | Training, inference and simulation belong on physical hardware, with GPUs available on request. |
Genomics workloads you can host
A single run produces enormous files and the pipeline is CPU-bound for hours — this is batch compute, not a web workload.
- Sequence alignment
- Variant calling pipelines
- Reference genome storage
- Batch job scheduling
- Results archive
Where your server runs
All 24 locations cost the same, so pick whichever sits closest to the people who will actually use the server.
Asheville is closest to Atlanta. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Asheville ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Atlanta, United States | 165 miles | 4–8 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 513 miles | 12–25 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 581 miles | 14–28 ms |
| New York, United States | 583 miles | 14–28 ms |
| Miami, United States | 694 miles | 17–34 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 836 miles | 20–40 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 2,016 miles | 49–97 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 2,176 miles | 53–105 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 2,187 miles | 53–106 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 4,043 miles | 98–195 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 4,159 miles | 100–201 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 4,223 miles | 102–204 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 4,435 miles | 107–214 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 4,484 miles | 108–216 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 4,600 miles | 111–222 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 5,333 miles | 129–257 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 6,247 miles | 151–302 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 6,814 miles | 164–329 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 7,817 miles | 189–377 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 8,288 miles | 200–400 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 8,331 miles | 201–402 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 8,374 miles | 202–404 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 9,420 miles | 227–455 ms |
| Singapore | 9,851 miles | 238–476 ms |
Distances are from Asheville. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Genomics in Asheville
The closest of our 24 data centres to Asheville is Atlanta, about 165 miles away. Every kilometre between your users and the server is latency you cannot optimise away in software.
Asheville has a population of about 95,056, which is why the medium build above is the one most likely to fit a Genomics 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 Asheville
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Asheville | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Atlantaamericas | 165 miles | 4–8 ms |
| Chicagoamericas | 513 miles | 12–25 ms |
| Torontoamericas | 581 miles | 14–28 ms |
Asheville sits in North Carolina, 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 medium size assumed above, that is roughly 26,667 requests a day crossing that link.
Genomics hosting in Asheville — FAQs
What size server does a Genomics business in Asheville, NC need?
Where would the server for my Asheville, NC business actually run?
Is a VPS enough for Genomics, or do we need a dedicated server?
Can you host sequence alignment for us?
Can we start smaller and grow?
Other industries in Asheville
Same city, different workload.
Genomics hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.