Back Bay, United States
Server infrastructure for Publishing in Back Bay
Sizing infrastructure for Publishing starts with the workload, then works back to cores, memory and disk. For a small Publishing business in Back Bay that is about Single Core, 10 GB of memory and 250 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 Back Bay. 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 Publishing Most likely here
1–10 people · ~5,000 visits a month
$131.15 USD USD
per month · VPS
- Single Core
- 10 GB RAM
- 250 GB storage
About 0.1 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 7 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Medium Publishing
11–50 people · ~50,000 visits a month
$309.55 USD USD
per month · VDS
- 2 Cores
- 24 GB RAM
- 600 GB storage
- Managed
About 1.5 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 20 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Large Publishing
51+ people · ~500,000 visits a month
$1,161.40 USD USD
per month · Dedicated Server
- 6 Cores
- 96 GB RAM
- 3000 GB storage
- Managed
About 14.5 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 80 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 Publishing
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 | 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
Where your server runs
All 24 locations cost the same, so pick whichever sits closest to the people who will actually use the server.
Back Bay is closest to New York. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Back Bay ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| New York, United States | 189 miles | 5–9 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 429 miles | 10–21 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 847 miles | 20–41 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 934 miles | 23–45 ms |
| Miami, United States | 1,257 miles | 30–61 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,548 miles | 37–75 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 2,485 miles | 60–120 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 2,589 miles | 63–125 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 2,680 miles | 65–129 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 3,273 miles | 79–158 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 3,401 miles | 82–164 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 3,455 miles | 83–167 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 3,666 miles | 88–177 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 3,745 miles | 90–181 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 3,828 miles | 92–185 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 4,565 miles | 110–220 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 5,475 miles | 132–264 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 6,707 miles | 162–324 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 7,144 miles | 172–345 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 7,611 miles | 184–367 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 7,763 miles | 187–375 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 7,956 miles | 192–384 ms |
| Singapore | 9,401 miles | 227–454 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 10,090 miles | 244–487 ms |
Distances are from Back Bay. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Publishing in Back Bay
The closest of our 24 data centres to Back Bay is New York, about 189 miles away. Choosing the closest data centre is the cheapest performance improvement available, and it costs nothing extra.
Back Bay has a population of about 17,577, which is why the small build above is the one most likely to fit a Publishing business here — though the other two are a click away if it does not. Local time is America/New York, 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 Back Bay
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Back Bay | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| New Yorkamericas | 189 miles | 5–9 ms |
| Torontoamericas | 429 miles | 10–21 ms |
| Chicagoamericas | 847 miles | 20–41 ms |
Back Bay sits in Massachusetts, 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 4,167 requests a day crossing that link.
Publishing hosting in Back Bay — FAQs
What size server does a Publishing business in Back Bay, MA need?
Where would the server for my Back Bay, MA business actually run?
Is a VPS enough for Publishing, or do we need a dedicated server?
Can you host editorial CMS for us?
Can we start smaller and grow?
Other industries in Back Bay
Same city, different workload.
Publishing hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.