San Marcos, United States
Server infrastructure for Radio Stations in San Marcos
There is no single correct server for Radio Stations; there is a correct one for the workload, the volume and the budget. For a medium Radio Stations business in San Marcos 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 San Marcos. 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.
San Marcos is closest to Los Angeles. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from San Marcos ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Los Angeles, United States | 88 miles | 2–4 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 397 miles | 10–19 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 1,035 miles | 25–50 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,179 miles | 28–57 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 1,717 miles | 41–83 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 1,882 miles | 45–91 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 2,149 miles | 52–104 ms |
| Miami, United States | 2,270 miles | 55–110 ms |
| New York, United States | 2,415 miles | 58–117 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 5,458 miles | 132–263 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 5,554 miles | 134–268 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 5,576 miles | 135–269 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 5,802 miles | 140–280 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 5,819 miles | 140–281 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 6,054 miles | 146–292 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 6,601 miles | 159–319 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 7,573 miles | 183–366 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 5,567 miles | 134–269 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 7,327 miles | 177–354 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 7,526 miles | 182–363 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 8,070 miles | 195–390 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 8,236 miles | 199–398 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 8,768 miles | 212–423 ms |
| Singapore | 8,861 miles | 214–428 ms |
Distances are from San Marcos. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Radio Stations in San Marcos
The closest of our 24 data centres to San Marcos is Los Angeles, about 88 miles away. Choosing the closest data centre is the cheapest performance improvement available, and it costs nothing extra.
San Marcos has a population of about 92,931, 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 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 San Marcos
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from San Marcos | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Los Angelesamericas | 88 miles | 2–4 ms |
| Santa Claraamericas | 397 miles | 10–19 ms |
| Seattleamericas | 1,035 miles | 25–50 ms |
San Marcos 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 medium size assumed above, that is roughly 80,000 requests a day crossing that link.
Radio Stations hosting in San Marcos — FAQs
What size server does a Radio Stations business in San Marcos, CA need?
Where would the server for my San Marcos, 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 San Marcos
Same city, different workload.