Baltimore, United States
Server infrastructure for Radio Stations in Baltimore
Sizing infrastructure for Radio Stations starts with the workload, then works back to cores, memory and disk. For a large Radio Stations business in Baltimore that is about 2 Cores, 32 GB of memory and 4000 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 Baltimore. 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 Radio Stations
1–10 people · ~5,000 visits a month
$146 USD USD
per month · VPS
- Single Core
- 6 GB RAM
- 600 GB storage
About 0.2 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 2.1 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Medium Radio Stations
11–50 people · ~50,000 visits a month
$299.90 USD USD
per month · VPS
- Single Core
- 10 GB RAM
- 1500 GB storage
- Managed
About 2.3 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 6 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Large Radio Stations Most likely here
51+ people · ~500,000 visits a month
$840.10 USD USD
per month · VDS
- 2 Cores
- 32 GB RAM
- 4000 GB storage
- Managed
About 23.2 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 24 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.
Why Radio Stations size up this way
Working from about 500,000 visits a month and roughly 800,000 requests a day, storage grows by roughly 480 GB a month at this size, which usually decides the build before CPU does.
- 23.2 req/sec at peak
- 24 GB working set
- 480 GB/month growth
- Linux
Which tiers suit Radio Stations
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 plans cap disk long before a video or photo library needs them to, and cannot sustain the read throughput. |
| VPS Flexible virtual infrastructure with full root access | Workable | Fine for a catalogue and a website; the library itself will outgrow the disk faster than the CPU. |
| VDS Virtual server with resources pinned to you alone | Recommended | Storage-weighted builds with guaranteed throughput, which is what serving large files consistently actually requires. |
| Dedicated Server An entire physical server, configured to your specification | Recommended | The right tier once the library runs to terabytes, or when transcoding runs alongside delivery. |
| Bare Metal Physical compute for sustained, demanding workloads | Recommended | For transcoding, rendering and archives at a scale where disk and CPU are both saturated for hours at a time. |
Radio Stations workloads you can host
A live stream is a continuous outbound connection per listener — steady, not spiky, and it never stops.
- Live audio streaming
- Playout automation
- Podcast publishing
- Show archives
- Listener requests
Where your server runs
All 24 locations cost the same, so pick whichever sits closest to the people who will actually use the server.
Baltimore is closest to New York. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Baltimore ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| New York, United States | 169 miles | 4–8 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 334 miles | 8–16 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 577 miles | 14–28 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 605 miles | 15–29 ms |
| Miami, United States | 958 miles | 23–46 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,211 miles | 29–58 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 2,315 miles | 56–112 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 2,328 miles | 56–112 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 2,436 miles | 59–118 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 3,630 miles | 88–175 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 3,751 miles | 91–181 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 3,811 miles | 92–184 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 4,023 miles | 97–194 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 4,088 miles | 99–197 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 4,186 miles | 101–202 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 4,922 miles | 119–238 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 5,833 miles | 141–282 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 6,765 miles | 163–327 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 7,460 miles | 180–360 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 7,948 miles | 192–384 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 8,054 miles | 194–389 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 8,123 miles | 196–392 ms |
| Singapore | 9,629 miles | 232–465 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 9,788 miles | 236–473 ms |
Distances are from Baltimore. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Radio Stations in Baltimore
We work with businesses across the Inner Harbor, Fells Point, Federal Hill, Canton and Mount Vernon. Baltimore is a neighbourhood-driven market where local SEO and reviews convert.
The closest of our 24 data centres to Baltimore is New York, about 169 miles away. Choosing the closest data centre is the cheapest performance improvement available, and it costs nothing extra.
Baltimore has a population of about 585,708, which is why the large build above is the one most likely to fit a Radio Stations 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 Baltimore
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Baltimore | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| New Yorkamericas | 169 miles | 4–8 ms |
| Torontoamericas | 334 miles | 8–16 ms |
| Atlantaamericas | 577 miles | 14–28 ms |
Baltimore sits in Maryland, 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 large size assumed above, that is roughly 800,000 requests a day crossing that link.
Radio Stations hosting in Baltimore — FAQs
What size server does a Radio Stations business in Baltimore, MD need?
Where would the server for my Baltimore, MD business actually run?
Is a VPS enough for Radio Stations, or do we need a dedicated server?
Can you host live audio streaming for us?
Can we start smaller and grow?
Other industries in Baltimore
Same city, different workload.