Chinatown, Canada
Server infrastructure for Marketplaces in Chinatown
Infrastructure for Marketplaces is a question of matching the machine to the application, then putting it near the people using it. For a small Marketplaces business in Chinatown that is about Single Core, 12 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 Chinatown. 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 Marketplaces Most likely here
1–10 people · ~5,000 visits a month
$129.80 USD USD
per month · VPS
- Single Core
- 12 GB RAM
- 80 GB storage
About 1.0 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 8.4 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Medium Marketplaces
11–50 people · ~50,000 visits a month
$327.10 USD USD
per month · VDS
- 2 Cores
- 32 GB RAM
- 200 GB storage
- Managed
About 10.4 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 24 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Large Marketplaces
51+ people · ~500,000 visits a month
$1,100.65 USD USD
per month · Dedicated Server
- 8 Cores
- 128 GB RAM
- 700 GB storage
- Managed
About 104.2 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 96 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 Marketplaces size up this way
Working from about 5,000 visits a month and roughly 18,000 requests a day, peaks run about 5× the average hour, so the build is sized for the busiest moment rather than the typical one.
- 1.0 req/sec at peak
- 8.4 GB working set
- 3 GB/month growth
- Linux
Which tiers suit Marketplaces
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 | Workable | Fine for a first storefront with a small catalogue, but checkout under load is where shared hosting shows its limits. |
| VPS Flexible virtual infrastructure with full root access | Recommended | Enough headroom for a catalogue, a cart and a payment gateway, with the caching layers a store needs to stay quick. |
| VDS Virtual server with resources pinned to you alone | Recommended | Guaranteed CPU is what keeps checkout responsive during a sale, when traffic arrives all at once rather than evenly. |
| Dedicated Server An entire physical server, configured to your specification | Recommended | The right tier for a high-traffic store, or one whose database has outgrown what a virtual instance can cache. |
| Bare Metal Physical compute for sustained, demanding workloads | Workable | Reserved for very large catalogues and enterprise commerce platforms running their own search and queue tiers. |
Marketplaces workloads you can host
Every seller writes to the catalogue as well as reading it, so the database takes traffic from both sides at once.
- Vendor onboarding
- Multi-seller catalogue
- Split payments & payouts
- Search & filtering
- Dispute handling
- Seller 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.
Chinatown is closest to Seattle. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Chinatown ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Seattle, United States | 121 miles | 3–6 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 826 miles | 20–40 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 1,081 miles | 26–52 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,767 miles | 43–85 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 1,772 miles | 43–86 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 2,086 miles | 50–101 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 2,239 miles | 54–108 ms |
| New York, United States | 2,425 miles | 59–117 ms |
| Miami, United States | 2,803 miles | 68–135 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| Stockholm, Sweden | 4,621 miles | 112–223 ms |
| London, United Kingdom | 4,709 miles | 114–227 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 4,782 miles | 115–231 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 5,001 miles | 121–241 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 5,228 miles | 126–252 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 5,290 miles | 128–255 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 5,701 miles | 138–275 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 6,653 miles | 161–321 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 4,696 miles | 113–227 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 6,371 miles | 154–308 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 6,914 miles | 167–334 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 7,108 miles | 172–343 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 7,613 miles | 184–368 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 7,768 miles | 188–375 ms |
| Singapore | 7,967 miles | 192–385 ms |
Distances are from Chinatown. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Marketplaces in Chinatown
The closest of our 24 data centres to Chinatown is Seattle, about 121 miles away. The price is the same in all 24 locations, so distance is the only variable worth optimising.
Chinatown has a population of about 24,000, which is why the small build above is the one most likely to fit a Marketplaces business here — though the other two are a click away if it does not. Local time is America/Vancouver, 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 Chinatown
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Chinatown | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Seattleamericas | 121 miles | 3–6 ms |
| Santa Claraamericas | 826 miles | 20–40 ms |
| Los Angelesamericas | 1,081 miles | 26–52 ms |
Chinatown sits in British Columbia, 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 18,000 requests a day crossing that link.
Marketplaces hosting in Chinatown — FAQs
What size server does a Marketplaces business in Chinatown, BC need?
Where would the server for my Chinatown, BC business actually run?
Is a VPS enough for Marketplaces, or do we need a dedicated server?
Can you host vendor onboarding for us?
Can we start smaller and grow?
Other industries in Chinatown
Same city, different workload.
Marketplaces hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.