Richmond, United Kingdom
Server infrastructure for IT Consulting in Richmond
Most IT Consulting outgrow their first server in one specific place — and it is rarely the one the plan name suggests. For a small IT Consulting business in Richmond that is about Single Core, 10 GB of memory and 80 GB of storage on VPS.
- ✓ 5 infrastructure tiers
- ✓ Sized for your workload, not a plan name
- ✓ Same price in all 24 locations
Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Richmond. 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 Most likely here
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
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.
Richmond has a data centre of its own. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Richmond ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | Same city | 1–2 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 231 miles | 6–11 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 403 miles | 10–19 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 600 miles | 14–29 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 780 miles | 19–38 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 898 miles | 22–43 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 1,306 miles | 32–63 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 2,216 miles | 53–107 ms |
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| New York, United States | 3,455 miles | 83–167 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 3,544 miles | 86–171 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 3,942 miles | 95–190 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 4,200 miles | 101–203 ms |
| Miami, United States | 4,421 miles | 107–213 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 4,743 miles | 114–229 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 4,782 miles | 115–231 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 5,362 miles | 129–259 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 5,437 miles | 131–262 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Delhi NCR, India | 4,190 miles | 101–202 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 4,476 miles | 108–216 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 4,956 miles | 120–239 ms |
| Tokyo, Japan | 5,946 miles | 144–287 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 5,988 miles | 145–289 ms |
| Singapore | 6,749 miles | 163–326 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 10,568 miles | 255–510 ms |
Distances are from Richmond. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
IT Consulting in Richmond
The closest of our 24 data centres to Richmond is London, about 8 miles away. Choosing the closest data centre is the cheapest performance improvement available, and it costs nothing extra.
Richmond has a population of about 21,469, which is why the small 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 Europe/London, 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 the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018. Pricing is quoted in GBP, and the figure is the same wherever the machine physically sits.
Network reach from Richmond
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Richmond | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Londonemea | In your metro | 1–2 ms |
| Amsterdamemea | 231 miles | 6–11 ms |
| Frankfurtemea | 403 miles | 10–19 ms |
Richmond sits in England, 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 small size assumed above, that is roughly 14,000 requests a day crossing that link.
IT Consulting hosting in Richmond — FAQs
What size server does a IT Consulting business in Richmond, England need?
Where would the server for my Richmond, England 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 Richmond
Same city, different workload.
IT Consulting hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.