Portslade, United Kingdom
Server infrastructure for Online Education in Portslade
Most Online Education outgrow their first server in one specific place — and it is rarely the one the plan name suggests. For a small Online Education business in Portslade that is about Single Core, 10 GB of memory and 1000 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 Portslade. 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 Most likely here
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
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 5,000 visits a month and roughly 8,000 requests a day, storage grows by roughly 77 GB a month at this size, which usually decides the build before CPU does.
- 0.3 req/sec at peak
- 5.6 GB working set
- 77 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.
Portslade is closest to London. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Portslade ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 46 miles | 1–2 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 244 miles | 6–12 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 394 miles | 10–19 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 570 miles | 14–28 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 740 miles | 18–36 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 926 miles | 22–45 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 1,295 miles | 31–63 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 2,195 miles | 53–106 ms |
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| New York, United States | 3,472 miles | 84–168 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 3,565 miles | 86–172 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 3,966 miles | 96–191 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 4,218 miles | 102–204 ms |
| Miami, United States | 4,432 miles | 107–214 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 4,765 miles | 115–230 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 4,818 miles | 116–233 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 5,395 miles | 130–260 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 5,468 miles | 132–264 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Delhi NCR, India | 4,194 miles | 101–202 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 4,472 miles | 108–216 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 4,962 miles | 120–240 ms |
| Tokyo, Japan | 5,980 miles | 144–289 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 6,007 miles | 145–290 ms |
| Singapore | 6,754 miles | 163–326 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 10,585 miles | 256–511 ms |
Distances are from Portslade. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Online Education in Portslade
The closest of our 24 data centres to Portslade is London, about 46 miles away. Every kilometre between your users and the server is latency you cannot optimise away in software.
Portslade has a population of about 20,000, which is why the small 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 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 Portslade
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Portslade | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Londonemea | 46 miles | 1–2 ms |
| Amsterdamemea | 244 miles | 6–12 ms |
| Frankfurtemea | 394 miles | 10–19 ms |
Portslade 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 small size assumed above, that is roughly 8,000 requests a day crossing that link.
Online Education hosting in Portslade — FAQs
What size server does a Online Education business in Portslade, England need?
Where would the server for my Portslade, England 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 Portslade
Same city, different workload.
Online Education hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.