Ontario, Canada
Server infrastructure for Marketing & Advertising Agencies in Ontario
The right server for Marketing & Advertising Agencies is decided by the work it has to do, not by the size of the plan you happen to land on. For a small Marketing & Advertising business in Ontario that is about Single Core, 3 GB of memory and 30 GB of storage on Shared Hosting.
- ✓ 5 infrastructure tiers
- ✓ Sized for your workload, not a plan name
- ✓ Same price in all 24 locations
Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Ontario. 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 Marketing & Advertising Most likely here
1–10 people · ~5,000 visits a month
On request
Shared Hosting
- Single Core
- 3 GB RAM
- 30 GB storage
About 0.1 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 0.2 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Medium Marketing & Advertising
11–50 people · ~50,000 visits a month
On request
Shared Hosting
- Single Core
- 3 GB RAM
- 30 GB storage
- Managed
The same build as small — at 1.5 requests a second this workload still fits comfortably, so there is nothing to gain by paying for more.
Configure this build →Large Marketing & Advertising
51+ people · ~500,000 visits a month
$78.50 USD USD
per month · VPS
- Single Core
- 6 GB RAM
- 50 GB storage
- Managed
About 14.5 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 2 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 Marketing & Advertising Agencies
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 | Recommended | A brochure site with light traffic runs comfortably on shared hosting, and the managed platform means no server to look after. |
| VPS Flexible virtual infrastructure with full root access | Recommended | A VPS gives you root, your own PHP and Nginx versions, and room for the site to grow past what shared hosting allows. |
| VDS Virtual server with resources pinned to you alone | Workable | Worth moving to once the site fronts an application rather than pages, or when a slow neighbour has cost you a lead. |
| Dedicated Server An entire physical server, configured to your specification | Workable | More machine than a brochure site needs, but the right answer when it sits alongside other systems on the same box. |
| Bare Metal Physical compute for sustained, demanding workloads | Not this one | Bare metal is sized for sustained heavy compute; a brochure site would leave almost all of it idle. |
Marketing & Advertising Agencies workloads you can host
- Campaign landing pages
- Client websites
- Analytics & tracking
- Reporting dashboards
- Email platforms
Marketing & Advertising in Ontario, business by business
These are not the same workload. Sized at the small band, here is what each one actually needs.
| Business | Build | Tier | What decides it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Digital Marketing | 1 vCPU · 3 GB · 30 GB | Shared Hosting | Landing pages must survive a campaign launch, which is the only hour anybody will ever visit them at scale. |
| Advertising Agencies | 1 vCPU · 6 GB · 400 GB | VPS | Creative files are large and every round of amends is another version nobody will delete. |
| Media Agencies | 1 vCPU · 12 GB · 50 GB | VPS | Reporting pulls from many platform APIs on a schedule, so the load is nightly rather than interactive. |
| SEO Agencies | 2 vCPU · 24 GB · 300 GB | VDS | Crawling client sites is the real workload, and it runs on a schedule regardless of who is logged in. |
| Affiliate Marketing | 1 vCPU · 3 GB · 30 GB | Shared Hosting | Every click is a redirect that has to be logged and forwarded in milliseconds — tiny requests, enormous counts... |
| Ad Tech | 1 vCPU · 6 GB · 900 GB | VPS | Real-time bidding answers in tens of milliseconds or loses the auction, and the log volume is immense. |
| Email Marketing | 1 vCPU · 16 GB · 100 GB | VPS | A send is a burst: a million messages queued at once, then a wave of opens and clicks a few minutes later. |
| Market Research | 1 vCPU · 16 GB · 250 GB | VPS | Fieldwork opens and closes, so the platform is either idle or saturated with very little in between. |
Where your server runs
All 24 locations cost the same, so pick whichever sits closest to the people who will actually use the server.
Ontario has a data centre of its own. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Ontario ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Toronto, Canada | Same city | 1–2 ms |
| New York, United States | 357 miles | 9–17 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 436 miles | 11–21 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 751 miles | 18–36 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,210 miles | 29–58 ms |
| Miami, United States | 1,256 miles | 30–61 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 2,054 miles | 50–99 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 2,168 miles | 52–105 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 2,247 miles | 54–108 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 3,541 miles | 85–171 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 3,708 miles | 90–179 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 3,747 miles | 90–181 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 3,920 miles | 95–189 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 3,926 miles | 95–190 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 4,117 miles | 99–199 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 4,813 miles | 116–232 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 5,751 miles | 139–278 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 6,413 miles | 155–310 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 7,220 miles | 174–349 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 7,745 miles | 187–374 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 7,777 miles | 188–375 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 7,778 miles | 188–376 ms |
| Singapore | 9,301 miles | 225–449 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 9,669 miles | 233–467 ms |
Distances are from Ontario. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Marketing & Advertising Agencies in Ontario
The closest of our 24 data centres to Ontario is Toronto, about 20 miles away. Choosing the closest data centre is the cheapest performance improvement available, and it costs nothing extra.
Ontario has a population of about 8,396, which is why the small build above is the one most likely to fit a Marketing & Advertising business here — though the other two are a click away if it does not. Local time is America/Toronto, 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 PIPEDA. Pricing is quoted in CAD, and the figure is the same wherever the machine physically sits.
Network reach from Ontario
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Ontario | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Torontoamericas | In your metro | 1–2 ms |
| New Yorkamericas | 357 miles | 9–17 ms |
| Chicagoamericas | 436 miles | 11–21 ms |
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 4,167 requests a day crossing that link.
Marketing & Advertising Agencies hosting in Ontario — FAQs
What size server does a Marketing & Advertising business in Ontario need?
Where would the server for my Ontario business actually run?
Is a VPS enough for Marketing & Advertising Agencies, or do we need a dedicated server?
Can you host campaign landing pages for us?
Can we start smaller and grow?
Other industries in Ontario
Same city, different workload.
Marketing & Advertising Agencies hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.