Mercer Island, United States
Server infrastructure for IT Services in Mercer Island
What IT Services actually need from a server is predictable performance under load, and enough headroom to grow into. For a medium IT Services business in Mercer Island that is about Single Core, 16 GB of memory and 200 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 Mercer Island. 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 Services
1–10 people · ~5,000 visits a month
$97.40 USD USD
per month · VPS
- Single Core
- 8 GB RAM
- 80 GB storage
About 1.4 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 4.2 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Medium IT Services Most likely here
11–50 people · ~50,000 visits a month
$173 USD USD
per month · VPS
- Single Core
- 16 GB RAM
- 200 GB storage
- Managed
About 13.9 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 12 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Large IT Services
51+ people · ~500,000 visits a month
$668.65 USD USD
per month · VDS
- 8 Cores
- 64 GB RAM
- 700 GB storage
- Managed
About 138.9 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 48 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 Services
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. |
IT Services workloads you can host
An MSP runs its tooling for other people's networks, so the box matters most when everyone's systems break at once — capacity is sized for the bad morning, not the average one.
- Ticketing & helpdesk
- Remote monitoring (RMM)
- Client documentation
- Patch management
- Backup orchestration
Where your server runs
All 24 locations cost the same, so pick whichever sits closest to the people who will actually use the server.
Mercer Island has a data centre of its own. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Mercer Island ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Seattle, United States | Same city | 1–2 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 706 miles | 17–34 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 957 miles | 23–46 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,674 miles | 40–81 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 1,728 miles | 42–83 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 2,061 miles | 50–100 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 2,173 miles | 52–105 ms |
| New York, United States | 2,397 miles | 58–116 ms |
| Miami, United States | 2,726 miles | 66–132 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| Stockholm, Sweden | 4,718 miles | 114–228 ms |
| London, United Kingdom | 4,783 miles | 115–231 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 4,862 miles | 117–235 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 5,082 miles | 123–245 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 5,286 miles | 128–255 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 5,368 miles | 130–259 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 5,795 miles | 140–280 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 6,751 miles | 163–326 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 4,790 miles | 116–231 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 6,477 miles | 156–313 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 7,039 miles | 170–340 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 7,231 miles | 175–349 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 7,738 miles | 187–374 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 7,752 miles | 187–374 ms |
| Singapore | 8,070 miles | 195–390 ms |
Distances are from Mercer Island. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
IT Services in Mercer Island
Technology & Software is one of the sectors Mercer Island is known for, so this is a workload we are asked about here more than most.
The closest of our 24 data centres to Mercer Island is Seattle, about 6 miles away. The price is the same in all 24 locations, so distance is the only variable worth optimising.
Mercer Island has a population of about 25,042, which is why the medium build above is the one most likely to fit a IT Services business here — though the other two are a click away if it does not. Local time is America/Los Angeles, 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 Mercer Island
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Mercer Island | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Seattleamericas | In your metro | 1–2 ms |
| Santa Claraamericas | 706 miles | 17–34 ms |
| Los Angelesamericas | 957 miles | 23–46 ms |
Mercer Island sits in Washington, 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.
IT Services hosting in Mercer Island — FAQs
What size server does a IT Services business in Mercer Island, WA need?
Where would the server for my Mercer Island, WA business actually run?
Is a VPS enough for IT Services, or do we need a dedicated server?
Can you host ticketing & helpdesk for us?
Can we start smaller and grow?
Other industries in Mercer Island
Same city, different workload.
IT Services hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.