Milpitas, United States
Server infrastructure for Genomics in Milpitas
Most Genomics outgrow their first server in one specific place — and it is rarely the one the plan name suggests. For a medium Genomics business in Milpitas 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 Milpitas. 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.
Milpitas has a data centre of its own. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Milpitas ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Santa Clara, United States | Same city | 1–2 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 311 miles | 8–15 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 704 miles | 17–34 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,451 miles | 35–70 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 1,837 miles | 44–89 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 2,109 miles | 51–102 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 2,248 miles | 54–109 ms |
| New York, United States | 2,548 miles | 62–123 ms |
| Miami, United States | 2,561 miles | 62–124 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 5,178 miles | 125–250 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 6,932 miles | 167–335 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 7,436 miles | 180–359 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 7,711 miles | 186–372 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 7,848 miles | 189–379 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 8,416 miles | 203–406 ms |
| Singapore | 8,476 miles | 205–409 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 5,359 miles | 129–259 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 5,370 miles | 130–259 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 5,458 miles | 132–264 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 5,682 miles | 137–274 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 5,789 miles | 140–279 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 5,952 miles | 144–287 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 6,438 miles | 155–311 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 7,404 miles | 179–357 ms |
Distances are from Milpitas. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Genomics in Milpitas
The closest of our 24 data centres to Milpitas is Santa Clara, about 6 miles away. Every kilometre between your users and the server is latency you cannot optimise away in software.
Milpitas has a population of about 77,604, 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/Los Angeles, 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 Milpitas
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Milpitas | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Santa Claraamericas | In your metro | 1–2 ms |
| Los Angelesamericas | 311 miles | 8–15 ms |
| Seattleamericas | 704 miles | 17–34 ms |
Milpitas sits in California, 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 Milpitas — FAQs
What size server does a Genomics business in Milpitas, CA need?
Where would the server for my Milpitas, CA 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 Milpitas
Same city, different workload.
Genomics hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.