Delta, Canada
Server infrastructure for Healthcare Providers in Delta
What Healthcare Providers actually need from a server is predictable performance under load, and enough headroom to grow into. For a medium Healthcare business in Delta that is about 2 Cores, 24 GB of memory and 200 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 Delta. 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 Healthcare
1–10 people · ~5,000 visits a month
$113.60 USD USD
per month · VPS
- Single Core
- 10 GB RAM
- 80 GB storage
- Managed
About 0.4 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 5.6 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Medium Healthcare Most likely here
11–50 people · ~50,000 visits a month
$255.55 USD USD
per month · VDS
- 2 Cores
- 24 GB RAM
- 200 GB storage
- Managed
About 4.1 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 16 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Large Healthcare
51+ people · ~500,000 visits a month
$837.40 USD USD
per month · Dedicated Server
- 6 Cores
- 96 GB RAM
- 600 GB storage
- Managed
About 40.5 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 64 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.
Which tiers suit Healthcare Providers
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 | Shared hosting gives you no control over where data sits or who else is on the machine, which regulated records cannot accept. |
| VPS Flexible virtual infrastructure with full root access | Workable | Workable for a small practice, with the caveat that you own the patching and audit trail unless you add management. |
| VDS Virtual server with resources pinned to you alone | Recommended | Isolated, pinned resources in a data centre you choose, which is usually what a data-residency obligation actually requires. |
| Dedicated Server An entire physical server, configured to your specification | Recommended | A single-tenant physical machine is the clearest answer to "who else can reach this data" — nobody. |
| Bare Metal Physical compute for sustained, demanding workloads | Workable | For larger estates running several regulated systems on hardware you control end to end. |
Healthcare Providers workloads you can host
- Patient records
- Practice management
- Appointment scheduling
- Patient portal
- Medical billing
- Imaging storage
Healthcare in Delta, business by business
These are not the same workload. Sized at the medium band, here is what each one actually needs.
| Business | Build | Tier | What decides it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hospitals | 8 vCPU · 128 GB · 4000 GB | Dedicated Server | Imaging dominates everything: a single CT study is hundreds of megabytes and none of it may ever be deleted. |
| Clinics | 2 vCPU · 24 GB · 200 GB | VDS | Clinic load follows surgery hours exactly — busy from opening, quiet overnight, and the records must be there... |
| Dental Clinics | 2 vCPU · 24 GB · 600 GB | VDS | Dental imaging accumulates per patient per visit, so a long-established practice holds far more data than its... |
| Veterinary Clinics | 1 vCPU · 16 GB · 300 GB | VPS | One owner, several animals, and a reminder schedule per species — the record model is more tangled than it loo... |
| Diagnostic Laboratories | 4 vCPU · 48 GB · 900 GB | VDS | Analysers submit results around the clock, and a sample that loses its chain of custody is a test that has to... |
| Pharmacies | 2 vCPU · 24 GB · 200 GB | VDS | The controlled-drugs register is an auditable legal record, which makes retention and integrity the design con... |
| Medical Practices | 2 vCPU · 24 GB · 250 GB | VDS | Referrals and letters mean documents rather than rows, and they have to be produced on demand years later. |
| Physiotherapy Clinics | 1 vCPU · 12 GB · 500 GB | VPS | Programmes are delivered as video to patients at home, which turns a records system into a small media service... |
| Mental Health Practices | 1 vCPU · 16 GB · 150 GB | VPS | Notes here are unusually sensitive and video sessions are real-time — confidentiality and latency at the same... |
| Medical Billing Companies | 4 vCPU · 48 GB · 250 GB | VDS | Claim batches go out and remittances come back in bulk, so the load is scheduled rather than interactive. |
| Healthcare Software | 4 vCPU · 48 GB · 500 GB | VDS | Selling to clinicians means carrying their obligations too: audit logging is a feature, not a debugging aid. |
| Telemedicine | 1 vCPU · 10 GB · 800 GB | VPS | Real-time video is judged on jitter rather than throughput, and a dropped consultation is a missed appointment... |
Where your server runs
All 24 locations cost the same, so pick whichever sits closest to the people who will actually use the server.
Delta is closest to Seattle. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Delta ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Seattle, United States | 109 miles | 3–5 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 816 miles | 20–39 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 1,070 miles | 26–52 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,755 miles | 42–85 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 1,762 miles | 43–85 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 2,079 miles | 50–100 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 2,228 miles | 54–108 ms |
| New York, United States | 2,417 miles | 58–117 ms |
| Miami, United States | 2,791 miles | 67–135 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| Stockholm, Sweden | 4,627 miles | 112–223 ms |
| London, United Kingdom | 4,711 miles | 114–227 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 4,785 miles | 116–231 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 5,004 miles | 121–242 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 5,229 miles | 126–252 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 5,293 miles | 128–256 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 5,706 miles | 138–276 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 6,659 miles | 161–321 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 4,708 miles | 114–227 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 6,383 miles | 154–308 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 6,926 miles | 167–334 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 7,121 miles | 172–344 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 7,624 miles | 184–368 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 7,772 miles | 188–375 ms |
| Singapore | 7,980 miles | 193–385 ms |
Distances are from Delta. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Healthcare Providers in Delta
The closest of our 24 data centres to Delta is Seattle, about 109 miles away. The price is the same in all 24 locations, so distance is the only variable worth optimising.
Delta has a population of about 41,000, which is why the medium build above is the one most likely to fit a Healthcare business here — though the other two are a click away if it does not. Local time is America/Vancouver, 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 PIPEDA. Pricing is quoted in CAD, and the figure is the same wherever the machine physically sits.
Network reach from Delta
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Delta | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Seattleamericas | 109 miles | 3–5 ms |
| Santa Claraamericas | 816 miles | 20–39 ms |
| Los Angelesamericas | 1,070 miles | 26–52 ms |
Delta sits in British Columbia, 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 140,000 requests a day crossing that link.
Healthcare Providers hosting in Delta — FAQs
What size server does a Healthcare business in Delta, BC need?
Where would the server for my Delta, BC business actually run?
Is a VPS enough for Healthcare Providers, or do we need a dedicated server?
Can you host patient records for us?
Can we start smaller and grow?
Other industries in Delta
Same city, different workload.
Healthcare Providers hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.