Media & Entertainment

Server infrastructure for Publishing

Sized from the workload rather than sold as a plan name: what Publishing actually run, what that needs, and which tier it belongs on.

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Recommended builds by size

Three sizes of operation, each sized from an assumed traffic figure.

Small

1–10 people · ~5,000 visits a month

VPS

Single Core
10 GB RAM
250 GB storage

A single site or team, with traffic that arrives in a predictable working-hours pattern.

Medium

11–50 people · ~50,000 visits a month

VDS

2 Cores
24 GB RAM
600 GB storage

A growing business running several systems, where an outage now costs real money.

Large

51+ people · ~500,000 visits a month

Dedicated Server

6 Cores
96 GB RAM
3000 GB storage

Multiple sites or a busy platform, with traffic that spikes and an obligation to stay up.

Which tiers suit Publishing

Infrastructure	Verdict	Why
Shared Hosting Managed space on a shared server	Recommended	A brochure site with light traffic runs comfortably on shared hosting, and the managed platform means no server to look after.
VPS Flexible virtual infrastructure with full root access	Recommended	A VPS gives you root, your own PHP and Nginx versions, and room for the site to grow past what shared hosting allows.
VDS Virtual server with resources pinned to you alone	Workable	Worth moving to once the site fronts an application rather than pages, or when a slow neighbour has cost you a lead.
Dedicated Server An entire physical server, configured to your specification	Workable	More machine than a brochure site needs, but the right answer when it sits alongside other systems on the same box.
Bare Metal Physical compute for sustained, demanding workloads	Not this one	Bare metal is sized for sustained heavy compute; a brochure site would leave almost all of it idle.

Publishing workloads you can host

The archive is the asset, and it must stay searchable long after the issue stopped selling.

Editorial CMS
Digital editions
Subscriber paywall
Archive & back issues
Rights management

Publishing hosting by city

Each page names the closest of our 24 data centres and how far away it actually is.

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Publishing hosting — FAQs

What server specification do Publishing usually need?

It depends on volume more than on the industry. A medium-sized operation working from about 50,000 visits a month lands around 2 cores, 24 GB of memory and 600 GB of storage.

How were these figures worked out?

From an assumed traffic level, the number of requests each page makes, and how much data the application keeps warm — then rounded up to a build we actually sell. They are assumptions stated out loud rather than measurements of your business.

Can we change size later?

Yes. Memory, cores and disk can all be raised on the same server, usually within the hour, with no rebuild and no new IP address.