Colchester, United Kingdom
Server infrastructure for Medical Practices in Colchester
The right server for Medical Practices is decided by the work it has to do, not by the size of the plan you happen to land on. For a medium Medical Practices business in Colchester that is about 2 Cores, 24 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 Colchester. 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 Medical Practices
1–10 people · ~5,000 visits a month
$116.30 USD USD
per month · VPS
- Single Core
- 10 GB RAM
- 100 GB storage
- Managed
About 0.4 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 5.6 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Medium Medical Practices Most likely here
11–50 people · ~50,000 visits a month
$262.30 USD USD
per month · VDS
- 2 Cores
- 24 GB RAM
- 250 GB storage
- Managed
About 4.1 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 16 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Large Medical Practices
51+ people · ~500,000 visits a month
$891.40 USD USD
per month · Dedicated Server
- 6 Cores
- 96 GB RAM
- 1000 GB storage
- Managed
About 40.5 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 64 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 Medical Practices
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 gives you no control over where data sits or who else is on the machine, which regulated records cannot accept. |
| VPS Flexible virtual infrastructure with full root access | Workable | Workable for a small practice, with the caveat that you own the patching and audit trail unless you add management. |
| VDS Virtual server with resources pinned to you alone | Recommended | Isolated, pinned resources in a data centre you choose, which is usually what a data-residency obligation actually requires. |
| Dedicated Server An entire physical server, configured to your specification | Recommended | A single-tenant physical machine is the clearest answer to "who else can reach this data" — nobody. |
| Bare Metal Physical compute for sustained, demanding workloads | Workable | For larger estates running several regulated systems on hardware you control end to end. |
Medical Practices workloads you can host
Referrals and letters mean documents rather than rows, and they have to be produced on demand years later.
- Practice management
- Patient portal
- Referral letters
- Insurance verification
- Clinical documentation
Where your server runs
All 24 locations cost the same, so pick whichever sits closest to the people who will actually use the server.
Colchester is closest to London. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Colchester ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 51 miles | 1–2 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 173 miles | 4–8 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 360 miles | 9–17 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 582 miles | 14–28 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 822 miles | 20–40 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 840 miles | 20–41 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 1,262 miles | 30–61 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 2,181 miles | 53–105 ms |
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| New York, United States | 3,495 miles | 84–169 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 3,579 miles | 86–173 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 3,974 miles | 96–192 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 4,240 miles | 102–205 ms |
| Miami, United States | 4,467 miles | 108–216 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 4,776 miles | 115–231 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 4,790 miles | 116–231 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 5,376 miles | 130–260 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 5,456 miles | 132–263 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Delhi NCR, India | 4,134 miles | 100–200 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 4,425 miles | 107–214 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 4,898 miles | 118–236 ms |
| Tokyo, Japan | 5,894 miles | 142–285 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 5,928 miles | 143–286 ms |
| Singapore | 6,692 miles | 162–323 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 10,508 miles | 254–507 ms |
Distances are from Colchester. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Medical Practices in Colchester
The closest of our 24 data centres to Colchester is London, about 51 miles away. Round-trip time is set by physical distance more than by anything else, so the nearest site is usually the right one.
Colchester has a population of about 130,245, which is why the medium build above is the one most likely to fit a Medical Practices business here — though the other two are a click away if it does not. Local time is Europe/London, 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 the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018. Pricing is quoted in GBP, and the figure is the same wherever the machine physically sits.
Network reach from Colchester
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Colchester | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Londonemea | 51 miles | 1–2 ms |
| Amsterdamemea | 173 miles | 4–8 ms |
| Frankfurtemea | 360 miles | 9–17 ms |
Colchester sits in England, 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 140,000 requests a day crossing that link.
Medical Practices hosting in Colchester — FAQs
What size server does a Medical Practices business in Colchester, England need?
Where would the server for my Colchester, England business actually run?
Is a VPS enough for Medical Practices, or do we need a dedicated server?
Can you host practice management for us?
Can we start smaller and grow?
Other industries in Colchester
Same city, different workload.
Medical Practices hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.