Purley, United Kingdom
Server infrastructure for Pharmacies in Purley
Sizing infrastructure for Pharmacies starts with the workload, then works back to cores, memory and disk. For a medium Pharmacies business in Purley that is about 2 Cores, 24 GB of memory and 200 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 Purley. 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 Pharmacies
1–10 people · ~5,000 visits a month
$97.40 USD USD
per month · VPS
- Single Core
- 8 GB RAM
- 80 GB storage
- Managed
About 0.5 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 4.9 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Medium Pharmacies Most likely here
11–50 people · ~50,000 visits a month
$255.55 USD USD
per month · VDS
- 2 Cores
- 24 GB RAM
- 200 GB storage
- Managed
About 4.9 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 14 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Large Pharmacies
51+ people · ~500,000 visits a month
$587.65 USD USD
per month · VDS
- 4 Cores
- 64 GB RAM
- 600 GB storage
- Managed
About 48.6 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 56 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 Pharmacies
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. |
Pharmacies workloads you can host
The controlled-drugs register is an auditable legal record, which makes retention and integrity the design constraint.
- Dispensing records
- Stock & controlled drugs register
- Repeat prescriptions
- Click & collect
- Supplier ordering
Where your server runs
All 24 locations cost the same, so pick whichever sits closest to the people who will actually use the server.
Purley has a data centre of its own. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Purley ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | Same city | 1–2 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 226 miles | 5–11 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 394 miles | 10–19 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 588 miles | 14–28 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 774 miles | 19–37 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 898 miles | 22–43 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 1,297 miles | 31–63 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 2,204 miles | 53–106 ms |
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| New York, United States | 3,466 miles | 84–167 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 3,555 miles | 86–172 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 3,954 miles | 95–191 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 4,211 miles | 102–203 ms |
| Miami, United States | 4,431 miles | 107–214 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 4,754 miles | 115–230 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 4,794 miles | 116–231 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 5,374 miles | 130–259 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 5,449 miles | 132–263 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Delhi NCR, India | 4,183 miles | 101–202 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 4,468 miles | 108–216 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 4,950 miles | 119–239 ms |
| Tokyo, Japan | 5,949 miles | 144–287 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 5,985 miles | 144–289 ms |
| Singapore | 6,742 miles | 163–326 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 10,565 miles | 255–510 ms |
Distances are from Purley. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Pharmacies in Purley
The closest of our 24 data centres to Purley is London, about 12 miles away. Choosing the closest data centre is the cheapest performance improvement available, and it costs nothing extra.
Purley has a population of about 72,000, which is why the medium build above is the one most likely to fit a Pharmacies 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 Purley
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Purley | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Londonemea | In your metro | 1–2 ms |
| Amsterdamemea | 226 miles | 5–11 ms |
| Frankfurtemea | 394 miles | 10–19 ms |
Purley 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.
Pharmacies hosting in Purley — FAQs
What size server does a Pharmacies business in Purley, England need?
Where would the server for my Purley, England business actually run?
Is a VPS enough for Pharmacies, or do we need a dedicated server?
Can you host dispensing records for us?
Can we start smaller and grow?
Other industries in Purley
Same city, different workload.
Pharmacies hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.