Columbia, United States
Server infrastructure for Hospitals in Columbia
The right server for Hospitals is decided by the work it has to do, not by the size of the plan you happen to land on. For a medium Hospitals business in Columbia that is about 8 Cores, 128 GB of memory and 4000 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 Columbia. 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 Hospitals
1–10 people · ~5,000 visits a month
$668.65 USD USD
per month · VDS
- 4 Cores
- 48 GB RAM
- 2000 GB storage
- Managed
About 0.3 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 33.6 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Medium Hospitals Most likely here
11–50 people · ~50,000 visits a month
$1,546.15 USD USD
per month · Dedicated Server
- 8 Cores
- 128 GB RAM
- 4000 GB storage
- Managed
About 3.2 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 96 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Large Hospitals
51+ people · ~500,000 visits a month
$4,063.90 USD USD
per month · Bare Metal
- 28 Cores
- 448 GB RAM
- 4000 GB storage
- Managed
About 32.4 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 384 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 Hospitals size up this way
Working from about 50,000 visits a month and roughly 140,000 requests a day, storage grows by roughly 400 GB a month at this size, which usually decides the build before CPU does; and about 96 GB of data needs to stay in memory to keep queries fast.
- 3.2 req/sec at peak
- 96 GB working set
- 400 GB/month growth
- Linux
Which tiers suit Hospitals
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. |
Hospitals workloads you can host
Imaging dominates everything: a single CT study is hundreds of megabytes and none of it may ever be deleted.
- Electronic patient records
- Bed & theatre scheduling
- PACS imaging archive
- Pharmacy & prescribing
- Lab orders & results
Where your server runs
All 24 locations cost the same, so pick whichever sits closest to the people who will actually use the server.
Columbia is closest to Chicago. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Columbia ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Chicago, United States | 319 miles | 8–15 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 494 miles | 12–24 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 569 miles | 14–27 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 745 miles | 18–36 ms |
| New York, United States | 978 miles | 24–47 ms |
| Miami, United States | 1,152 miles | 28–56 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 1,473 miles | 36–71 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 1,606 miles | 39–78 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 1,611 miles | 39–78 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 4,266 miles | 103–206 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 4,423 miles | 107–214 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 4,495 miles | 109–217 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 4,579 miles | 111–221 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 4,645 miles | 112–224 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 4,849 miles | 117–234 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 5,520 miles | 133–266 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 6,471 miles | 156–312 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 6,307 miles | 152–305 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 7,727 miles | 187–373 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 7,869 miles | 190–380 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 8,186 miles | 198–395 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 8,315 miles | 201–401 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 8,958 miles | 216–432 ms |
| Singapore | 9,469 miles | 229–457 ms |
Distances are from Columbia. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Hospitals in Columbia
Healthcare is one of the sectors Columbia is known for, so this is a workload we are asked about here more than most.
The closest of our 24 data centres to Columbia is Chicago, about 319 miles away. The price is the same in all 24 locations, so distance is the only variable worth optimising.
Columbia has a population of about 129,330, which is why the medium build above is the one most likely to fit a Hospitals 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 Columbia
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Columbia | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Chicagoamericas | 319 miles | 8–15 ms |
| Dallasamericas | 494 miles | 12–24 ms |
| Atlantaamericas | 569 miles | 14–27 ms |
Columbia sits in Missouri, 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.
Hospitals hosting in Columbia — FAQs
What size server does a Hospitals business in Columbia, MO need?
Where would the server for my Columbia, MO business actually run?
Is a VPS enough for Hospitals, or do we need a dedicated server?
Can you host electronic patient records for us?
Can we start smaller and grow?
Other industries in Columbia
Same city, different workload.
Hospitals hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.