Aloha, United States
Server infrastructure for Online Education in Aloha
The right server for Online Education is decided by the work it has to do, not by the size of the plan you happen to land on. For a medium Online Education business in Aloha that is about 2 Cores, 24 GB of memory and 3000 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 Aloha. 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 Online Education
1–10 people · ~5,000 visits a month
$232.40 USD USD
per month · VPS
- Single Core
- 10 GB RAM
- 1000 GB storage
About 0.3 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 5.6 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Medium Online Education Most likely here
11–50 people · ~50,000 visits a month
$633.55 USD USD
per month · VDS
- 2 Cores
- 24 GB RAM
- 3000 GB storage
- Managed
About 2.8 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 16 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Large Online Education
51+ people · ~500,000 visits a month
$1,296.40 USD USD
per month · Dedicated Server
- 6 Cores
- 96 GB RAM
- 4000 GB storage
- Managed
About 27.8 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.
Why Online Education size up this way
Working from about 50,000 visits a month and roughly 80,000 requests a day, storage grows by roughly 220 GB a month at this size, which usually decides the build before CPU does.
- 2.8 req/sec at peak
- 16 GB working set
- 220 GB/month growth
- Linux
Which tiers suit Online Education
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. |
Online Education workloads you can host
Video is the whole product, so bandwidth and storage dominate and CPU barely registers.
- Video course delivery
- Adaptive streaming
- Progress & completion tracking
- Discussion forums
- Certificates
Where your server runs
All 24 locations cost the same, so pick whichever sits closest to the people who will actually use the server.
Aloha is closest to Seattle. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Aloha ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Seattle, United States | 148 miles | 4–7 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 564 miles | 14–27 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 827 miles | 20–40 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,639 miles | 40–79 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 1,764 miles | 43–85 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 2,118 miles | 51–102 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 2,178 miles | 53–105 ms |
| New York, United States | 2,449 miles | 59–118 ms |
| Miami, United States | 2,714 miles | 66–131 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 4,838 miles | 117–234 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 6,543 miles | 158–316 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 7,166 miles | 173–346 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 7,341 miles | 177–354 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 7,660 miles | 185–370 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 7,867 miles | 190–380 ms |
| Singapore | 8,128 miles | 196–392 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| Stockholm, Sweden | 4,863 miles | 117–235 ms |
| London, United Kingdom | 4,920 miles | 119–238 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 5,001 miles | 121–241 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 5,222 miles | 126–252 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 5,412 miles | 131–261 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 5,506 miles | 133–266 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 5,940 miles | 143–287 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 6,897 miles | 166–333 ms |
Distances are from Aloha. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Online Education in Aloha
Education & EdTech is one of the sectors Aloha is known for, so this is a workload we are asked about here more than most.
The closest of our 24 data centres to Aloha is Seattle, about 148 miles away. Every kilometre between your users and the server is latency you cannot optimise away in software.
Aloha has a population of about 49,425, which is why the medium build above is the one most likely to fit a Online Education 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 Aloha
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Aloha | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Seattleamericas | 148 miles | 4–7 ms |
| Santa Claraamericas | 564 miles | 14–27 ms |
| Los Angelesamericas | 827 miles | 20–40 ms |
Aloha sits in Oregon, 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 80,000 requests a day crossing that link.
Online Education hosting in Aloha — FAQs
What size server does a Online Education business in Aloha, OR need?
Where would the server for my Aloha, OR business actually run?
Is a VPS enough for Online Education, or do we need a dedicated server?
Can you host video course delivery for us?
Can we start smaller and grow?
Other industries in Aloha
Same city, different workload.
Online Education hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.