Surrey, Canada
Server infrastructure for Radio Stations in Surrey
Infrastructure for Radio Stations is a question of matching the machine to the application, then putting it near the people using it. For a large Radio Stations business in Surrey 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 Surrey. 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.
Surrey is closest to Seattle. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Surrey ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Seattle, United States | 106 miles | 3–5 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 813 miles | 20–39 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 1,066 miles | 26–51 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,750 miles | 42–85 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 1,759 miles | 42–85 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 2,075 miles | 50–100 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 2,224 miles | 54–107 ms |
| New York, United States | 2,414 miles | 58–117 ms |
| Miami, United States | 2,787 miles | 67–135 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| Stockholm, Sweden | 4,628 miles | 112–223 ms |
| London, United Kingdom | 4,711 miles | 114–227 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 4,786 miles | 116–231 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 5,005 miles | 121–242 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 5,228 miles | 126–252 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 5,293 miles | 128–256 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 5,707 miles | 138–276 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 6,660 miles | 161–322 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 4,713 miles | 114–228 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 6,388 miles | 154–308 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 6,929 miles | 167–335 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 7,125 miles | 172–344 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 7,628 miles | 184–368 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 7,774 miles | 188–375 ms |
| Singapore | 7,984 miles | 193–385 ms |
Distances are from Surrey. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Radio Stations in Surrey
The closest of our 24 data centres to Surrey is Seattle, about 106 miles away. The price is the same in all 24 locations, so distance is the only variable worth optimising.
Surrey has a population of about 568,322, 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/Vancouver, 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 PIPEDA. Pricing is quoted in CAD, and the figure is the same wherever the machine physically sits.
Network reach from Surrey
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Surrey | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Seattleamericas | 106 miles | 3–5 ms |
| Santa Claraamericas | 813 miles | 20–39 ms |
| Los Angelesamericas | 1,066 miles | 26–51 ms |
Surrey sits in British Columbia, 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 Surrey — FAQs
What size server does a Radio Stations business in Surrey, BC need?
Where would the server for my Surrey, BC 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 Surrey
Same city, different workload.
Radio Stations hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.