Cambridge, United States
Server infrastructure for InsurTech in Cambridge
Sizing infrastructure for InsurTech starts with the workload, then works back to cores, memory and disk. For a medium InsurTech business in Cambridge that is about 4 Cores, 48 GB of memory and 250 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 Cambridge. 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 InsurTech
1–10 people · ~5,000 visits a month
$164.90 USD USD
per month · VPS
- Single Core
- 16 GB RAM
- 100 GB storage
About 1.4 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 11.2 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Medium InsurTech Most likely here
11–50 people · ~50,000 visits a month
$432.40 USD USD
per month · VDS
- 4 Cores
- 48 GB RAM
- 250 GB storage
- Managed
About 13.9 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 32 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Large InsurTech
51+ people · ~500,000 visits a month
$1,721.65 USD USD
per month · Dedicated Server
- 16 Cores
- 196 GB RAM
- 900 GB storage
- Managed
About 138.9 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 128 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 InsurTech size up this way
Working from about 50,000 visits a month and roughly 400,000 requests a day, about 32 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.
- 13.9 req/sec at peak
- 32 GB working set
- 10 GB/month growth
- Linux
Which tiers suit InsurTech
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 cannot run background workers, queues or long-lived processes, which a SaaS application depends on. |
| VPS Flexible virtual infrastructure with full root access | Recommended | The natural home for an early-stage product: root access, your own runtime, and the ability to resize as you grow. |
| VDS Virtual server with resources pinned to you alone | Recommended | Pinned resources give you the predictable latency your customers will hold you to in an SLA. |
| Dedicated Server An entire physical server, configured to your specification | Recommended | Right once the database and the application tier are competing for the same memory on a single virtual instance. |
| Bare Metal Physical compute for sustained, demanding workloads | Workable | For platforms running their own virtualization, or holding a large working set entirely in memory. |
InsurTech workloads you can host
Pricing runs a model per quote, so the cost of a page view is real computation rather than a database read.
- Underwriting API
- Pricing models
- Digital claims flow
- Policy issuance
- Data enrichment 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.
Cambridge is closest to New York. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Cambridge ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| New York, United States | 189 miles | 5–9 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 427 miles | 10–21 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 846 miles | 20–41 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 935 miles | 23–45 ms |
| Miami, United States | 1,258 miles | 30–61 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,547 miles | 37–75 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 2,483 miles | 60–120 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 2,588 miles | 62–125 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 2,679 miles | 65–129 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 3,272 miles | 79–158 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 3,401 miles | 82–164 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 3,455 miles | 83–167 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 3,665 miles | 88–177 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 3,744 miles | 90–181 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 3,828 miles | 92–185 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 4,565 miles | 110–220 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 5,475 miles | 132–264 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 6,705 miles | 162–324 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 7,143 miles | 172–345 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 7,611 miles | 184–367 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 7,762 miles | 187–375 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 7,954 miles | 192–384 ms |
| Singapore | 9,399 miles | 227–454 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 10,089 miles | 244–487 ms |
Distances are from Cambridge. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
InsurTech in Cambridge
The closest of our 24 data centres to Cambridge is New York, about 189 miles away. Choosing the closest data centre is the cheapest performance improvement available, and it costs nothing extra.
Cambridge has a population of about 110,402, which is why the medium build above is the one most likely to fit a InsurTech 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 Cambridge
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Cambridge | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| New Yorkamericas | 189 miles | 5–9 ms |
| Torontoamericas | 427 miles | 10–21 ms |
| Chicagoamericas | 846 miles | 20–41 ms |
Cambridge sits in Massachusetts, 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 400,000 requests a day crossing that link.
InsurTech hosting in Cambridge — FAQs
What size server does a InsurTech business in Cambridge, MA need?
Where would the server for my Cambridge, MA business actually run?
Is a VPS enough for InsurTech, or do we need a dedicated server?
Can you host underwriting API for us?
Can we start smaller and grow?
Other industries in Cambridge
Same city, different workload.
InsurTech hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.