Phenix City, United States
Server infrastructure for Genomics in Phenix City
Infrastructure for Genomics is a question of matching the machine to the application, then putting it near the people using it. For a medium Genomics business in Phenix City 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 Phenix City. 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.
Phenix City is closest to Atlanta. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Phenix City ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Atlanta, United States | 95 miles | 2–5 ms |
| Miami, United States | 547 miles | 13–26 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 666 miles | 16–32 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 686 miles | 17–33 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 830 miles | 20–40 ms |
| New York, United States | 833 miles | 20–40 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 1,915 miles | 46–92 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 2,107 miles | 51–102 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 2,205 miles | 53–106 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 4,294 miles | 104–207 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 4,392 miles | 106–212 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 4,476 miles | 108–216 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 4,687 miles | 113–226 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 4,742 miles | 114–229 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 4,847 miles | 117–234 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 5,587 miles | 135–270 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 6,495 miles | 157–314 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 6,913 miles | 167–334 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 8,066 miles | 195–389 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 8,445 miles | 204–408 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 8,587 miles | 207–415 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 8,609 miles | 208–416 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 9,226 miles | 223–445 ms |
| Singapore | 10,030 miles | 242–484 ms |
Distances are from Phenix City. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Genomics in Phenix City
The closest of our 24 data centres to Phenix City is Atlanta, about 95 miles away. Round-trip time is set by physical distance more than by anything else, so the nearest site is usually the right one.
Phenix City has a population of about 37,570, 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 Phenix City
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Phenix City | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Atlantaamericas | 95 miles | 2–5 ms |
| Miamiamericas | 547 miles | 13–26 ms |
| Chicagoamericas | 666 miles | 16–32 ms |
Phenix City sits in Alabama, 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 Phenix City — FAQs
What size server does a Genomics business in Phenix City, AL need?
Where would the server for my Phenix City, AL 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 Phenix City
Same city, different workload.
Genomics hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.