Seattle, United States
Server infrastructure for Media & Entertainment Companies in Seattle
There is no single correct server for Media & Entertainment Companies; there is a correct one for the workload, the volume and the budget. For a large Media & Entertainment business in Seattle that is about 2 Cores, 32 GB of memory and 4000 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 Seattle. 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 Media & Entertainment
1–10 people · ~5,000 visits a month
$146 USD USD
per month · VPS
- Single Core
- 6 GB RAM
- 600 GB storage
About 0.3 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 2.1 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Medium Media & Entertainment
11–50 people · ~50,000 visits a month
$299.90 USD USD
per month · VPS
- Single Core
- 10 GB RAM
- 1500 GB storage
- Managed
About 2.8 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 6 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Large Media & Entertainment Most likely here
51+ people · ~500,000 visits a month
$840.10 USD USD
per month · VDS
- 2 Cores
- 32 GB RAM
- 4000 GB storage
- Managed
About 27.8 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 24 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 Media & Entertainment Companies size up this way
Working from about 500,000 visits a month and roughly 800,000 requests a day, storage grows by roughly 480 GB a month at this size, which usually decides the build before CPU does.
- 27.8 req/sec at peak
- 24 GB working set
- 480 GB/month growth
- Linux
Which tiers suit Media & Entertainment Companies
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 plans cap disk long before a video or photo library needs them to, and cannot sustain the read throughput. |
| VPS Flexible virtual infrastructure with full root access | Workable | Fine for a catalogue and a website; the library itself will outgrow the disk faster than the CPU. |
| VDS Virtual server with resources pinned to you alone | Recommended | Storage-weighted builds with guaranteed throughput, which is what serving large files consistently actually requires. |
| Dedicated Server An entire physical server, configured to your specification | Recommended | The right tier once the library runs to terabytes, or when transcoding runs alongside delivery. |
| Bare Metal Physical compute for sustained, demanding workloads | Recommended | For transcoding, rendering and archives at a scale where disk and CPU are both saturated for hours at a time. |
Media & Entertainment Companies workloads you can host
- Media library
- Transcoding
- Content delivery
- Editorial CMS
- Archive storage
- Streaming
Media & Entertainment in Seattle, business by business
These are not the same workload. Sized at the large band, here is what each one actually needs.
| Business | Build | Tier | What decides it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Publishing | 6 vCPU · 96 GB · 3000 GB | Dedicated Server | The archive is the asset, and it must stay searchable long after the issue stopped selling. |
| News Organisations | 4 vCPU · 32 GB · 4000 GB | VDS | A breaking story is an instant, unplanned traffic multiple against pages that were written seconds ago. |
| Radio Stations | 2 vCPU · 32 GB · 4000 GB | VDS | A live stream is a continuous outbound connection per listener — steady, not spiky, and it never stops. |
| Streaming Platforms | 16 vCPU · 196 GB · 4000 GB | Dedicated Server | Transcoding one title into every bitrate is hours of CPU before a single viewer arrives. |
| Music Production | 4 vCPU · 64 GB · 4000 GB | VDS | Sessions are dozens of uncompressed tracks, and nobody ever deletes a version they might need. |
| Podcast Networks | 2 vCPU · 32 GB · 4000 GB | VDS | Dynamic ad insertion means each download is assembled per listener rather than served from a static file. |
| Film Production | 8 vCPU · 128 GB · 4000 GB | Dedicated Server | Rushes arrive daily in terabytes and are kept for the life of the production and long after. |
| TV Production | 8 vCPU · 128 GB · 4000 GB | Dedicated Server | Broadcast delivery has exact technical specifications, so the final render is a hard deadline with no flexibil... |
| Animation Studios | 20 vCPU · 320 GB · 4000 GB | Bare Metal | The render farm is the business: frames are queued for days and every core is doing arithmetic, not serving pa... |
| VFX Studios | 28 vCPU · 448 GB · 4000 GB | Bare Metal | Simulation and rendering saturate hardware for hours, and the plates they work from are enormous. |
| Video & Creative Production | 4 vCPU · 32 GB · 4000 GB | VDS | Proxy generation is the unglamorous CPU cost of making footage editable at all. |
| Photography Studios | 4 vCPU · 48 GB · 4000 GB | VDS | RAW files are kept for years and clients expect to revisit a gallery long after the shoot. |
| Stock Photography | 20 vCPU · 320 GB · 4000 GB | Bare Metal | Search across millions of images with metadata is the product, and every size variant is generated and stored. |
| Event Management | 6 vCPU · 96 GB · 350 GB | Dedicated Server | On-site check-in is a hard concurrency spike: everybody arrives in the same half hour. |
| Ticketing Platforms | 36 vCPU · 196 GB · 800 GB | Dedicated Server | An on-sale is the hardest traffic pattern there is — a year of demand inside two minutes. |
Where your server runs
All 24 locations cost the same, so pick whichever sits closest to the people who will actually use the server.
Seattle has a data centre of its own. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Seattle ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Seattle, United States | Same city | 1–2 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 709 miles | 17–34 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 960 miles | 23–46 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,680 miles | 41–81 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 1,733 miles | 42–84 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 2,066 miles | 50–100 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 2,178 miles | 53–105 ms |
| New York, United States | 2,402 miles | 58–116 ms |
| Miami, United States | 2,732 miles | 66–132 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| Stockholm, Sweden | 4,717 miles | 114–228 ms |
| London, United Kingdom | 4,784 miles | 115–231 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 4,863 miles | 117–235 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 5,083 miles | 123–245 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 5,288 miles | 128–255 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 5,369 miles | 130–259 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 5,795 miles | 140–280 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 6,750 miles | 163–326 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 4,785 miles | 116–231 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 6,471 miles | 156–312 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 7,035 miles | 170–340 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 7,226 miles | 174–349 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 7,734 miles | 187–373 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 7,749 miles | 187–374 ms |
| Singapore | 8,064 miles | 195–389 ms |
Distances are from Seattle. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Media & Entertainment Companies in Seattle
We work with businesses across Downtown, Capitol Hill, Ballard, Bellevue and Fremont. Seattle is a discerning, tech-forward market that rewards fast, modern sites.
The closest of our 24 data centres to Seattle is Seattle, about under a mile away. The price is the same in all 24 locations, so distance is the only variable worth optimising.
Seattle has a population of about 780,995, which is why the large build above is the one most likely to fit a Media & Entertainment 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 Seattle
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Seattle | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Seattleamericas | In your metro | 1–2 ms |
| Santa Claraamericas | 709 miles | 17–34 ms |
| Los Angelesamericas | 960 miles | 23–46 ms |
Seattle 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 large size assumed above, that is roughly 800,000 requests a day crossing that link.
Media & Entertainment Companies hosting in Seattle — FAQs
What size server does a Media & Entertainment business in Seattle, WA need?
Where would the server for my Seattle, WA business actually run?
Is a VPS enough for Media & Entertainment Companies, or do we need a dedicated server?
Can you host media library for us?
Can we start smaller and grow?
Other industries in Seattle
Same city, different workload.
Media & Entertainment Companies hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.