Boulder, United States
Server infrastructure for IT Consulting in Boulder
The right server for IT Consulting is decided by the work it has to do, not by the size of the plan you happen to land on. For a medium IT Consulting business in Boulder 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 Boulder. 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 IT Consulting
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 0.7 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 5.6 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Medium IT Consulting 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 6.5 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 16 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Large IT Consulting
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 64.8 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 IT Consulting
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. |
IT Consulting workloads you can host
Lab environments get built and torn down constantly, so the machine sees very uneven demand.
- Client environments & labs
- Documentation
- Ticketing
- Deployment automation
- Access management
Where your server runs
All 24 locations cost the same, so pick whichever sits closest to the people who will actually use the server.
Boulder is closest to Dallas. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Boulder ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Dallas, United States | 687 miles | 17–33 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 824 miles | 20–40 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 917 miles | 22–44 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 928 miles | 22–45 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 996 miles | 24–48 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 1,229 miles | 30–59 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 1,350 miles | 33–65 ms |
| New York, United States | 1,638 miles | 40–79 ms |
| Miami, United States | 1,747 miles | 42–84 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 4,681 miles | 113–226 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 4,812 miles | 116–232 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 4,852 miles | 117–234 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 5,012 miles | 121–242 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 5,037 miles | 122–243 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 5,276 miles | 127–255 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 5,867 miles | 142–283 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 6,838 miles | 165–330 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 5,777 miles | 139–279 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 7,437 miles | 180–359 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 7,697 miles | 186–372 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 8,024 miles | 194–387 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 8,323 miles | 201–402 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 8,352 miles | 202–403 ms |
| Singapore | 9,040 miles | 218–436 ms |
Distances are from Boulder. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
IT Consulting in Boulder
Legal & Professional Services is one of the sectors Boulder is known for, so this is a workload we are asked about here more than most.
The closest of our 24 data centres to Boulder is Dallas, about 687 miles away. The price is the same in all 24 locations, so distance is the only variable worth optimising.
Boulder has a population of about 106,803, which is why the medium build above is the one most likely to fit a IT Consulting business here — though the other two are a click away if it does not. Local time is America/Denver, 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 Boulder
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Boulder | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Dallasamericas | 687 miles | 17–33 ms |
| Los Angelesamericas | 824 miles | 20–40 ms |
| Santa Claraamericas | 917 miles | 22–44 ms |
Boulder sits in Colorado, 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.
IT Consulting hosting in Boulder — FAQs
What size server does a IT Consulting business in Boulder, CO need?
Where would the server for my Boulder, CO business actually run?
Is a VPS enough for IT Consulting, or do we need a dedicated server?
Can you host client environments & labs for us?
Can we start smaller and grow?
Other industries in Boulder
Same city, different workload.
IT Consulting hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.