Lichfield, United Kingdom
Server infrastructure for Radio Stations in Lichfield
The right server for Radio Stations is decided by the work it has to do, not by the size of the plan you happen to land on. For a medium Radio Stations business in Lichfield that is about Single Core, 10 GB of memory and 1500 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 Lichfield. 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 Most likely here
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
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 50,000 visits a month and roughly 80,000 requests a day, storage grows by roughly 120 GB a month at this size, which usually decides the build before CPU does.
- 2.3 req/sec at peak
- 6 GB working set
- 120 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.
Lichfield is closest to London. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Lichfield ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 109 miles | 3–5 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 284 miles | 7–14 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 486 miles | 12–23 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 704 miles | 17–34 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 852 miles | 21–41 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 890 miles | 21–43 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 1,387 miles | 33–67 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 2,308 miles | 56–111 ms |
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| New York, United States | 3,368 miles | 81–163 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 3,451 miles | 83–167 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 3,847 miles | 93–186 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 4,113 miles | 99–199 ms |
| Miami, United States | 4,345 miles | 105–210 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 4,648 miles | 112–224 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 4,676 miles | 113–226 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 5,256 miles | 127–254 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 5,333 miles | 129–257 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Delhi NCR, India | 4,238 miles | 102–205 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 4,541 miles | 110–219 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 4,998 miles | 121–241 ms |
| Tokyo, Japan | 5,907 miles | 143–285 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 5,996 miles | 145–289 ms |
| Singapore | 6,793 miles | 164–328 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 10,579 miles | 255–511 ms |
Distances are from Lichfield. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Radio Stations in Lichfield
The closest of our 24 data centres to Lichfield is London, about 109 miles away. Round-trip time is set by physical distance more than by anything else, so the nearest site is usually the right one.
Lichfield has a population of about 34,738, which is why the medium 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 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 Lichfield
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Lichfield | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Londonemea | 109 miles | 3–5 ms |
| Amsterdamemea | 284 miles | 7–14 ms |
| Frankfurtemea | 486 miles | 12–23 ms |
Lichfield 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 80,000 requests a day crossing that link.
Radio Stations hosting in Lichfield — FAQs
What size server does a Radio Stations business in Lichfield, England need?
Where would the server for my Lichfield, England 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 Lichfield
Same city, different workload.
Radio Stations hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.