Lomita, United States
Server infrastructure for Radio Stations in Lomita
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 small Radio Stations business in Lomita that is about Single Core, 6 GB of memory and 600 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 Lomita. 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 Most likely here
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
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 5,000 visits a month and roughly 8,000 requests a day, storage grows by roughly 42 GB a month at this size, which usually decides the build before CPU does.
- 0.2 req/sec at peak
- 2.1 GB working set
- 42 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.
Lomita has a data centre of its own. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Lomita ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Los Angeles, United States | Same city | 1–2 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 320 miles | 8–15 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 977 miles | 24–47 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,243 miles | 30–60 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 1,754 miles | 42–85 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 1,940 miles | 47–94 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 2,184 miles | 53–105 ms |
| Miami, United States | 2,339 miles | 56–113 ms |
| New York, United States | 2,457 miles | 59–119 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 5,458 miles | 132–263 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 5,536 miles | 134–267 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 5,572 miles | 135–269 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 5,798 miles | 140–280 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 5,833 miles | 141–282 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 6,054 miles | 146–292 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 6,588 miles | 159–318 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 7,560 miles | 183–365 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 5,487 miles | 132–265 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 7,247 miles | 175–350 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 7,490 miles | 181–362 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 8,009 miles | 193–387 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 8,165 miles | 197–394 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 8,710 miles | 210–421 ms |
| Singapore | 8,781 miles | 212–424 ms |
Distances are from Lomita. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Radio Stations in Lomita
Media & Entertainment is one of the sectors Lomita is known for, so this is a workload we are asked about here more than most.
The closest of our 24 data centres to Lomita is Los Angeles, about 18 miles away. Every kilometre between your users and the server is latency you cannot optimise away in software.
Lomita has a population of about 20,785, which is why the small 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/Los Angeles, 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 Lomita
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Lomita | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Los Angelesamericas | In your metro | 1–2 ms |
| Santa Claraamericas | 320 miles | 8–15 ms |
| Seattleamericas | 977 miles | 24–47 ms |
Lomita sits in California, 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 8,000 requests a day crossing that link.
Radio Stations hosting in Lomita — FAQs
What size server does a Radio Stations business in Lomita, CA need?
Where would the server for my Lomita, CA 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 Lomita
Same city, different workload.
Radio Stations hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.