Orchard, Singapore
Server infrastructure for News Organisations in Orchard
There is no single correct server for News Organisations; there is a correct one for the workload, the volume and the budget. For a small News Organisations business in Orchard that is about Single Core, 6 GB of memory and 450 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 Orchard. 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 News Organisations Most likely here
1–10 people · ~5,000 visits a month
$125.75 USD USD
per month · VPS
- Single Core
- 6 GB RAM
- 450 GB storage
About 1.1 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 2.1 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Medium News Organisations
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 11.1 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 6 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Large News Organisations
51+ people · ~500,000 visits a month
$873.85 USD USD
per month · VDS
- 4 Cores
- 32 GB RAM
- 4000 GB storage
- Managed
About 111.1 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 News Organisations size up this way
Working from about 5,000 visits a month and roughly 8,000 requests a day, peaks run about 12× the average hour, so the build is sized for the busiest moment rather than the typical one; and storage grows by roughly 32 GB a month at this size, which usually decides the build before CPU does.
- 1.1 req/sec at peak
- 2.1 GB working set
- 32 GB/month growth
- Linux
Which tiers suit News Organisations
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. |
News Organisations workloads you can host
A breaking story is an instant, unplanned traffic multiple against pages that were written seconds ago.
- Editorial workflow
- Breaking-news publishing
- Live blogs
- Image & video library
- Comment moderation
Where your server runs
All 24 locations cost the same, so pick whichever sits closest to the people who will actually use the server.
Orchard has a data centre of its own. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Orchard ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Singapore | Same city | 1–2 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 1,610 miles | 39–78 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 1,799 miles | 43–87 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 2,428 miles | 59–117 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 2,565 miles | 62–124 ms |
| Tokyo, Japan | 3,302 miles | 80–159 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 3,916 miles | 95–189 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 4,950 miles | 119–239 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 5,551 miles | 134–268 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 5,992 miles | 145–289 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 6,377 miles | 154–308 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 6,379 miles | 154–308 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 6,522 miles | 157–315 ms |
| London, United Kingdom | 6,744 miles | 163–326 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 7,075 miles | 171–342 ms |
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Seattle, United States | 8,066 miles | 195–389 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 8,478 miles | 205–409 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 8,776 miles | 212–424 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 9,324 miles | 225–450 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 9,368 miles | 226–452 ms |
| New York, United States | 9,531 miles | 230–460 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 9,725 miles | 235–470 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 9,957 miles | 240–481 ms |
| Miami, United States | 10,547 miles | 255–509 ms |
Distances are from Orchard. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
News Organisations in Orchard
The closest of our 24 data centres to Orchard is Singapore, about 3 miles away. The price is the same in all 24 locations, so distance is the only variable worth optimising.
Orchard has a population of about 920, which is why the small build above is the one most likely to fit a News Organisations business here — though the other two are a click away if it does not. Local time is Asia/Singapore, 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 PDPA. Pricing is quoted in SGD, and the figure is the same wherever the machine physically sits.
Network reach from Orchard
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Orchard | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Singaporeapac | In your metro | 1–2 ms |
| Hong Kongapac | 1,610 miles | 39–78 ms |
| Kolkataapac | 1,799 miles | 43–87 ms |
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 8,000 requests a day crossing that link.
News Organisations hosting in Orchard — FAQs
What size server does a News Organisations business in Orchard, Singapore need?
Where would the server for my Orchard, Singapore business actually run?
Is a VPS enough for News Organisations, or do we need a dedicated server?
Can you host editorial workflow for us?
Can we start smaller and grow?
Other industries in Orchard
Same city, different workload.
News Organisations hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.