Columbus, United States
Server infrastructure for Marketplaces in Columbus
Sizing infrastructure for Marketplaces starts with the workload, then works back to cores, memory and disk. For a medium Marketplaces business in Columbus that is about 2 Cores, 32 GB of memory and 200 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 Columbus. 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
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 Most likely here
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 50,000 visits a month and roughly 180,000 requests a day, peaks run about 5× the average hour, so the build is sized for the busiest moment rather than the typical one.
- 10.4 req/sec at peak
- 24 GB working set
- 8 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.
Columbus is closest to Chicago. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Columbus ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Chicago, United States | 206 miles | 5–10 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 386 miles | 9–19 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 457 miles | 11–22 ms |
| New York, United States | 639 miles | 15–31 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 752 miles | 18–36 ms |
| Miami, United States | 986 miles | 24–48 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 1,817 miles | 44–88 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 1,898 miles | 46–92 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 1,946 miles | 47–94 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 4,007 miles | 97–193 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 4,174 miles | 101–202 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 4,193 miles | 101–202 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 4,379 miles | 106–211 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 4,392 miles | 106–212 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 4,580 miles | 111–221 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 5,280 miles | 127–255 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 6,216 miles | 150–300 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 6,504 miles | 157–314 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 7,635 miles | 184–369 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 7,992 miles | 193–386 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 8,153 miles | 197–394 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 8,183 miles | 198–395 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 9,296 miles | 224–449 ms |
| Singapore | 9,567 miles | 231–462 ms |
Distances are from Columbus. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Marketplaces in Columbus
The closest of our 24 data centres to Columbus is Chicago, about 206 miles away. Round-trip time is set by physical distance more than by anything else, so the nearest site is usually the right one.
Columbus has a population of about 46,690, which is why the medium 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/Indiana/Indianapolis, 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 Columbus
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Columbus | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Chicagoamericas | 206 miles | 5–10 ms |
| Atlantaamericas | 386 miles | 9–19 ms |
| Torontoamericas | 457 miles | 11–22 ms |
Columbus sits in Indiana, 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 180,000 requests a day crossing that link.
Marketplaces hosting in Columbus — FAQs
What size server does a Marketplaces business in Columbus, IN need?
Where would the server for my Columbus, IN 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 Columbus
Same city, different workload.
Marketplaces hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.