Alamo, United States
Server infrastructure for GIS & Mapping in Alamo
Most GIS & Mapping outgrow their first server in one specific place — and it is rarely the one the plan name suggests. For a small GIS & Mapping business in Alamo that is about 2 Cores, 32 GB of memory and 800 GB of storage on VDS.
- ✓ 5 infrastructure tiers
- ✓ Sized for your workload, not a plan name
- ✓ Same price in all 24 locations
Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Alamo. 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 GIS & Mapping Most likely here
1–10 people · ~5,000 visits a month
$408.10 USD USD
per month · VDS
- 2 Cores
- 32 GB RAM
- 800 GB storage
- GPU on request
About 0.1 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 28 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Medium GIS & Mapping
11–50 people · ~50,000 visits a month
$1,161.40 USD USD
per month · Dedicated Server
- 6 Cores
- 96 GB RAM
- 3000 GB storage
- Managed
- GPU on request
About 0.6 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 80 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Large GIS & Mapping
51+ people · ~500,000 visits a month
$3,567.10 USD USD
per month · Bare Metal
- 24 Cores
- 384 GB RAM
- 4000 GB storage
- Managed
- GPU on request
About 6.2 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 320 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 GIS & Mapping size up this way
Working from about 5,000 visits a month and roughly 2,667 requests a day, storage grows by roughly 53 GB a month at this size, which usually decides the build before CPU does; about 28 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.
- 0.1 req/sec at peak
- 28 GB working set
- 53 GB/month growth
- Linux
Which tiers suit GIS & Mapping
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. |
GIS & Mapping workloads you can host
Spatial queries and tile rendering are both CPU-hungry, and a cached basemap is what makes the map usable.
- Spatial database
- Tile rendering & caching
- Layer management
- Geoprocessing jobs
- Web map services
Where your server runs
All 24 locations cost the same, so pick whichever sits closest to the people who will actually use the server.
Alamo is closest to Dallas. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Alamo ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Dallas, United States | 462 miles | 11–22 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 973 miles | 23–47 ms |
| Miami, United States | 1,113 miles | 27–54 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 1,237 miles | 30–60 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 1,317 miles | 32–64 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 1,592 miles | 38–77 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 1,600 miles | 39–77 ms |
| New York, United States | 1,705 miles | 41–82 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 1,978 miles | 48–96 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 5,146 miles | 124–248 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 5,286 miles | 128–255 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 5,316 miles | 128–257 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 5,512 miles | 133–266 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 5,533 miles | 134–267 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 5,713 miles | 138–276 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 6,423 miles | 155–310 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 7,355 miles | 178–355 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 6,740 miles | 163–325 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 8,332 miles | 201–402 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 8,449 miles | 204–408 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 8,644 miles | 209–417 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 9,040 miles | 218–436 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 9,252 miles | 223–447 ms |
| Singapore | 10,036 miles | 242–485 ms |
Distances are from Alamo. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
GIS & Mapping in Alamo
The closest of our 24 data centres to Alamo is Dallas, about 462 miles away. Choosing the closest data centre is the cheapest performance improvement available, and it costs nothing extra.
Alamo has a population of about 19,246, which is why the small build above is the one most likely to fit a GIS & Mapping business here — though the other two are a click away if it does not. Local time is America/Chicago, 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 Alamo
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Alamo | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Dallasamericas | 462 miles | 11–22 ms |
| Atlantaamericas | 973 miles | 23–47 ms |
| Miamiamericas | 1,113 miles | 27–54 ms |
Alamo sits in Texas, 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 2,667 requests a day crossing that link.
GIS & Mapping hosting in Alamo — FAQs
What size server does a GIS & Mapping business in Alamo, TX need?
Where would the server for my Alamo, TX business actually run?
Is a VPS enough for GIS & Mapping, or do we need a dedicated server?
Can you host spatial database for us?
Can we start smaller and grow?
Other industries in Alamo
Same city, different workload.
GIS & Mapping hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.