Woking, United Kingdom
Server infrastructure for Pharmacies in Woking
What Pharmacies actually need from a server is predictable performance under load, and enough headroom to grow into. For a medium Pharmacies business in Woking 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 Woking. 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.
Woking has a data centre of its own. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Woking ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | Same city | 1–2 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 244 miles | 6–12 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 413 miles | 10–20 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 602 miles | 15–29 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 768 miles | 19–37 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 913 miles | 22–44 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 1,315 miles | 32–63 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 2,222 miles | 54–107 ms |
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| New York, United States | 3,448 miles | 83–166 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 3,538 miles | 85–171 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 3,937 miles | 95–190 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 4,193 miles | 101–202 ms |
| Miami, United States | 4,412 miles | 107–213 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 4,737 miles | 114–229 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 4,783 miles | 115–231 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 5,361 miles | 129–259 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 5,435 miles | 131–262 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Delhi NCR, India | 4,202 miles | 101–203 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 4,487 miles | 108–217 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 4,969 miles | 120–240 ms |
| Tokyo, Japan | 5,960 miles | 144–288 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 6,002 miles | 145–290 ms |
| Singapore | 6,761 miles | 163–326 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 10,582 miles | 255–511 ms |
Distances are from Woking. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Pharmacies in Woking
The closest of our 24 data centres to Woking is London, about 23 miles away. The price is the same in all 24 locations, so distance is the only variable worth optimising.
Woking has a population of about 103,900, 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 Woking
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Woking | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Londonemea | In your metro | 1–2 ms |
| Amsterdamemea | 244 miles | 6–12 ms |
| Frankfurtemea | 413 miles | 10–20 ms |
Woking 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 Woking — FAQs
What size server does a Pharmacies business in Woking, England need?
Where would the server for my Woking, 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 Woking
Same city, different workload.
Pharmacies hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.