Texas City, United States
Server infrastructure for GIS & Mapping in Texas City
Most GIS & Mapping outgrow their first server in one specific place — and it is rarely the one the plan name suggests. For a medium GIS & Mapping business in Texas City 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 Texas 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 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.
Texas City is closest to Dallas. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Texas City ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Dallas, United States | 260 miles | 6–13 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 688 miles | 17–33 ms |
| Miami, United States | 934 miles | 23–45 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 954 miles | 23–46 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 1,305 miles | 32–63 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 1,406 miles | 34–68 ms |
| New York, United States | 1,412 miles | 34–68 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 1,648 miles | 40–80 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 1,927 miles | 47–93 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 4,850 miles | 117–234 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 4,995 miles | 121–241 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 5,021 miles | 121–242 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 5,224 miles | 126–252 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 5,238 miles | 126–253 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 5,417 miles | 131–262 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 6,128 miles | 148–296 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 7,059 miles | 170–341 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 6,712 miles | 162–324 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 8,375 miles | 202–404 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 8,403 miles | 203–406 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 8,602 miles | 208–415 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 8,840 miles | 213–427 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 8,991 miles | 217–434 ms |
| Singapore | 9,979 miles | 241–482 ms |
Distances are from Texas City. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
GIS & Mapping in Texas City
The closest of our 24 data centres to Texas City is Dallas, about 260 miles away. Round-trip time is set by physical distance more than by anything else, so the nearest site is usually the right one.
Texas City has a population of about 47,618, 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/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 Texas City
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Texas City | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Dallasamericas | 260 miles | 6–13 ms |
| Atlantaamericas | 688 miles | 17–33 ms |
| Miamiamericas | 934 miles | 23–45 ms |
Texas City 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 medium size assumed above, that is roughly 26,667 requests a day crossing that link.
GIS & Mapping hosting in Texas City — FAQs
What size server does a GIS & Mapping business in Texas City, TX need?
Where would the server for my Texas City, 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 Texas City
Same city, different workload.
GIS & Mapping hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.