Athens, United States
Server infrastructure for GIS & Mapping in Athens
Infrastructure for GIS & Mapping is a question of matching the machine to the application, then putting it near the people using it. For a small GIS & Mapping business in Athens 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 Athens. 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.
Athens is closest to Atlanta. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Athens ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Atlanta, United States | 165 miles | 4–8 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 490 miles | 12–24 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 581 miles | 14–28 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 733 miles | 18–35 ms |
| Miami, United States | 744 miles | 18–36 ms |
| New York, United States | 816 miles | 20–39 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 1,776 miles | 43–86 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 1,950 miles | 47–94 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 2,017 miles | 49–97 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 4,260 miles | 103–206 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 4,400 miles | 106–212 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 4,434 miles | 107–214 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 4,649 miles | 112–224 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 4,666 miles | 113–225 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 4,824 miles | 116–233 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 5,543 miles | 134–268 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 6,468 miles | 156–312 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 6,716 miles | 162–324 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 7,943 miles | 192–383 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 8,253 miles | 199–398 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 8,461 miles | 204–408 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 8,486 miles | 205–410 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 9,165 miles | 221–443 ms |
| Singapore | 9,843 miles | 238–475 ms |
Distances are from Athens. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
GIS & Mapping in Athens
The closest of our 24 data centres to Athens is Atlanta, about 165 miles away. Round-trip time is set by physical distance more than by anything else, so the nearest site is usually the right one.
Athens has a population of about 24,966, 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 Athens
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Athens | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Atlantaamericas | 165 miles | 4–8 ms |
| Chicagoamericas | 490 miles | 12–24 ms |
| Dallasamericas | 581 miles | 14–28 ms |
Athens 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 small size assumed above, that is roughly 2,667 requests a day crossing that link.
GIS & Mapping hosting in Athens — FAQs
What size server does a GIS & Mapping business in Athens, AL need?
Where would the server for my Athens, AL 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 Athens
Same city, different workload.
GIS & Mapping hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.