Aurora, Canada
Server infrastructure for Marketplace Platforms in Aurora
What Marketplace Platforms actually need from a server is predictable performance under load, and enough headroom to grow into. For a medium Marketplace Platforms business in Aurora 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 Aurora. 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 Marketplace Platforms
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 Marketplace Platforms 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 Marketplace Platforms
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 Marketplace Platforms 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.
- 13.9 req/sec at peak
- 32 GB working set
- 10 GB/month growth
- Linux
Which tiers suit Marketplace Platforms
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. |
Marketplace Platforms workloads you can host
Search across a live inventory is the expensive part, and it gets slower exactly as the marketplace succeeds.
- Listings & search
- Matching engine
- Escrow & payments
- Messaging
- Ratings & reviews
- Provider dashboards
Where your server runs
All 24 locations cost the same, so pick whichever sits closest to the people who will actually use the server.
Aurora has a data centre of its own. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Aurora ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Toronto, Canada | Same city | 1–2 ms |
| New York, United States | 359 miles | 9–17 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 438 miles | 11–21 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 756 miles | 18–36 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,213 miles | 29–59 ms |
| Miami, United States | 1,261 miles | 30–61 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 2,053 miles | 50–99 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 2,169 miles | 52–105 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 2,247 miles | 54–109 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 3,538 miles | 85–171 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 3,704 miles | 89–179 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 3,744 miles | 90–181 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 3,916 miles | 95–189 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 3,923 miles | 95–189 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 4,114 miles | 99–199 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 4,810 miles | 116–232 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 5,747 miles | 139–277 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 6,409 miles | 155–309 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 7,216 miles | 174–348 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 7,741 miles | 187–374 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 7,773 miles | 188–375 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 7,774 miles | 188–375 ms |
| Singapore | 9,297 miles | 224–449 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 9,671 miles | 233–467 ms |
Distances are from Aurora. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Marketplace Platforms in Aurora
The closest of our 24 data centres to Aurora is Toronto, about 24 miles away. Round-trip time is set by physical distance more than by anything else, so the nearest site is usually the right one.
Aurora has a population of about 55,445, which is why the medium build above is the one most likely to fit a Marketplace Platforms 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 Aurora
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Aurora | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Torontoamericas | In your metro | 1–2 ms |
| New Yorkamericas | 359 miles | 9–17 ms |
| Chicagoamericas | 438 miles | 11–21 ms |
Aurora sits in Ontario, 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.
Marketplace Platforms hosting in Aurora — FAQs
What size server does a Marketplace Platforms business in Aurora, ON need?
Where would the server for my Aurora, ON business actually run?
Is a VPS enough for Marketplace Platforms, or do we need a dedicated server?
Can you host listings & search for us?
Can we start smaller and grow?
Other industries in Aurora
Same city, different workload.
Marketplace Platforms hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.