Clay, United States
Server infrastructure for Publishing in Clay
What Publishing actually need from a server is predictable performance under load, and enough headroom to grow into. For a medium Publishing business in Clay that is about 2 Cores, 24 GB of memory and 600 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 Clay. 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
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 Most likely here
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.
Clay is closest to Toronto. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Clay ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Toronto, Canada | 164 miles | 4–8 ms |
| New York, United States | 204 miles | 5–10 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 590 miles | 14–28 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 788 miles | 19–38 ms |
| Miami, United States | 1,225 miles | 30–59 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,328 miles | 32–64 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 2,227 miles | 54–108 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 2,331 miles | 56–113 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 2,416 miles | 58–117 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 3,443 miles | 83–166 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 3,616 miles | 87–175 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 3,617 miles | 87–175 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 3,832 miles | 92–185 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 3,860 miles | 93–186 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 4,011 miles | 97–194 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 4,725 miles | 114–228 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 5,652 miles | 136–273 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 6,540 miles | 158–316 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 7,205 miles | 174–348 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 7,707 miles | 186–372 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 7,788 miles | 188–376 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 7,863 miles | 190–380 ms |
| Singapore | 9,360 miles | 226–452 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 9,833 miles | 237–475 ms |
Distances are from Clay. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Publishing in Clay
The closest of our 24 data centres to Clay is Toronto, about 164 miles away. Choosing the closest data centre is the cheapest performance improvement available, and it costs nothing extra.
Clay has a population of about 58,206, which is why the medium 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 Clay
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Clay | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Torontoamericas | 164 miles | 4–8 ms |
| New Yorkamericas | 204 miles | 5–10 ms |
| Chicagoamericas | 590 miles | 14–28 ms |
Clay sits in New York, 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 41,667 requests a day crossing that link.
Publishing hosting in Clay — FAQs
What size server does a Publishing business in Clay, NY need?
Where would the server for my Clay, NY 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 Clay
Same city, different workload.