Charleston, United States
Server infrastructure for GIS & Mapping in Charleston
Infrastructure for GIS & Mapping is a question of matching the machine to the application, then putting it near the people using it. For a medium GIS & Mapping business in Charleston that is about 6 Cores, 96 GB of memory and 3000 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 Charleston. 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
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 Most likely here
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 50,000 visits a month and roughly 26,667 requests a day, storage grows by roughly 150 GB a month at this size, which usually decides the build before CPU does; about 80 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.
- 0.6 req/sec at peak
- 80 GB working set
- 150 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.
Charleston is closest to Atlanta. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Charleston ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Atlanta, United States | 353 miles | 9–17 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 385 miles | 9–19 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 400 miles | 10–19 ms |
| New York, United States | 438 miles | 11–21 ms |
| Miami, United States | 874 miles | 21–42 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 934 miles | 23–45 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 2,049 miles | 49–99 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 2,127 miles | 51–103 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 2,183 miles | 53–105 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 3,876 miles | 94–187 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 4,020 miles | 97–194 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 4,052 miles | 98–196 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 4,267 miles | 103–206 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 4,298 miles | 104–208 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 4,440 miles | 107–214 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 5,162 miles | 125–249 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 6,084 miles | 147–294 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 6,682 miles | 161–323 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 7,621 miles | 184–368 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 8,122 miles | 196–392 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 8,139 miles | 196–393 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 8,178 miles | 197–395 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 9,511 miles | 230–459 ms |
| Singapore | 9,672 miles | 233–467 ms |
Distances are from Charleston. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
GIS & Mapping in Charleston
The closest of our 24 data centres to Charleston is Atlanta, about 353 miles away. Every kilometre between your users and the server is latency you cannot optimise away in software.
Charleston has a population of about 46,838, which is why the medium 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/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 Charleston
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Charleston | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Atlantaamericas | 353 miles | 9–17 ms |
| Torontoamericas | 385 miles | 9–19 ms |
| Chicagoamericas | 400 miles | 10–19 ms |
Charleston sits in West Virginia, 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.
GIS & Mapping hosting in Charleston — FAQs
What size server does a GIS & Mapping business in Charleston, WV need?
Where would the server for my Charleston, WV 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 Charleston
Same city, different workload.
GIS & Mapping hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.