Frederick, United States
Server infrastructure for GIS & Mapping in Frederick
The right server for GIS & Mapping is decided by the work it has to do, not by the size of the plan you happen to land on. For a medium GIS & Mapping business in Frederick 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 Frederick. 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.
Frederick is closest to New York. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Frederick ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| New York, United States | 201 miles | 5–10 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 310 miles | 7–15 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 550 miles | 13–27 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 562 miles | 14–27 ms |
| Miami, United States | 957 miles | 23–46 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,172 miles | 28–57 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 2,272 miles | 55–110 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 2,287 miles | 55–110 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 2,392 miles | 58–115 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 3,657 miles | 88–177 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 3,785 miles | 91–183 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 3,837 miles | 93–185 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 4,049 miles | 98–195 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 4,107 miles | 99–198 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 4,215 miles | 102–204 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 4,948 miles | 119–239 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 5,862 miles | 141–283 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 6,737 miles | 163–325 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 7,470 miles | 180–361 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 7,963 miles | 192–384 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 8,056 miles | 194–389 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 8,106 miles | 196–391 ms |
| Singapore | 9,619 miles | 232–464 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 9,747 miles | 235–471 ms |
Distances are from Frederick. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
GIS & Mapping in Frederick
The closest of our 24 data centres to Frederick is New York, about 201 miles away. Choosing the closest data centre is the cheapest performance improvement available, and it costs nothing extra.
Frederick has a population of about 69,479, 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 Frederick
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Frederick | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| New Yorkamericas | 201 miles | 5–10 ms |
| Torontoamericas | 310 miles | 7–15 ms |
| Atlantaamericas | 550 miles | 13–27 ms |
Frederick sits in Maryland, 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 Frederick — FAQs
What size server does a GIS & Mapping business in Frederick, MD need?
Where would the server for my Frederick, MD 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 Frederick
Same city, different workload.
GIS & Mapping hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.