Canberra, Australia
Server infrastructure for Genomics in Canberra
What Genomics actually need from a server is predictable performance under load, and enough headroom to grow into. For a large Genomics business in Canberra that is about 32 Cores, 512 GB of memory and 4000 GB of storage on Bare Metal.
- ✓ 5 infrastructure tiers
- ✓ Sized for your workload, not a plan name
- ✓ Same price in all 24 locations
Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Canberra. 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
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 Most likely here
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 500,000 visits a month and roughly 266,667 requests a day, storage grows by roughly 2,000 GB a month at this size, which usually decides the build before CPU does; about 512 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.
- 4.6 req/sec at peak
- 512 GB working set
- 2,000 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.
Canberra is closest to Sydney. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Canberra ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Sydney, Australia | 154 miles | 4–7 ms |
| Singapore | 3,864 miles | 93–187 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 4,591 miles | 111–222 ms |
| Tokyo, Japan | 4,941 miles | 119–239 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 5,637 miles | 136–272 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 6,240 miles | 151–301 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 6,421 miles | 155–310 ms |
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Santa Clara, United States | 7,584 miles | 183–366 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 7,653 miles | 185–369 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 7,902 miles | 191–382 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 8,730 miles | 211–421 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 9,393 miles | 227–454 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 9,426 miles | 228–455 ms |
| Miami, United States | 9,459 miles | 228–457 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 9,824 miles | 237–474 ms |
| New York, United States | 10,082 miles | 243–487 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 8,726 miles | 211–421 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 9,412 miles | 227–454 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 9,700 miles | 234–468 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 10,217 miles | 247–493 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 10,240 miles | 247–494 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 10,331 miles | 249–499 ms |
| London, United Kingdom | 10,552 miles | 255–509 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 10,919 miles | 264–527 ms |
Distances are from Canberra. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Genomics in Canberra
We work with businesses across Civic, Braddon, Kingston, Belconnen and Woden. Canberra is a stable, professional market where clean, credible sites convert.
The closest of our 24 data centres to Canberra is Sydney, about 154 miles away. Every kilometre between your users and the server is latency you cannot optimise away in software.
Canberra has a population of about 367,752, which is why the large 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 Australia/Sydney, 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 Privacy Act 1988. Pricing is quoted in AUD, and the figure is the same wherever the machine physically sits.
Network reach from Canberra
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Canberra | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Sydneyapac | 154 miles | 4–7 ms |
| Singaporeapac | 3,864 miles | 93–187 ms |
| Hong Kongapac | 4,591 miles | 111–222 ms |
Canberra sits in Australian Capital Territory, 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 266,667 requests a day crossing that link.
Genomics hosting in Canberra — FAQs
What size server does a Genomics business in Canberra, ACT need?
Where would the server for my Canberra, ACT 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 Canberra
Same city, different workload.
Genomics hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.