The Beaches, Canada
Server infrastructure for Radio Stations in The Beaches
There is no single correct server for Radio Stations; there is a correct one for the workload, the volume and the budget. For a small Radio Stations business in The Beaches 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 The Beaches. 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.
The Beaches has a data centre of its own. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from The Beaches ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Toronto, Canada | Same city | 1–2 ms |
| New York, United States | 339 miles | 8–16 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 440 miles | 11–21 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 738 miles | 18–36 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,208 miles | 29–58 ms |
| Miami, United States | 1,239 miles | 30–60 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 2,070 miles | 50–100 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 2,176 miles | 53–105 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 2,257 miles | 54–109 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 3,545 miles | 86–171 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 3,713 miles | 90–179 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 3,746 miles | 90–181 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 3,929 miles | 95–190 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 3,931 miles | 95–190 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 4,120 miles | 99–199 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 4,819 miles | 116–233 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 5,755 miles | 139–278 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 6,433 miles | 155–311 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 7,234 miles | 175–349 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 7,757 miles | 187–374 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 7,793 miles | 188–376 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 7,798 miles | 188–376 ms |
| Singapore | 9,320 miles | 225–450 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 9,678 miles | 234–467 ms |
Distances are from The Beaches. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Radio Stations in The Beaches
The closest of our 24 data centres to The Beaches is Toronto, about 5 miles away. Round-trip time is set by physical distance more than by anything else, so the nearest site is usually the right one.
The Beaches has a population of about 21,567, 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/Toronto, 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 The Beaches
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from The Beaches | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Torontoamericas | In your metro | 1–2 ms |
| New Yorkamericas | 339 miles | 8–16 ms |
| Chicagoamericas | 440 miles | 11–21 ms |
The Beaches sits in Ontario, 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 The Beaches — FAQs
What size server does a Radio Stations business in The Beaches, ON need?
Where would the server for my The Beaches, ON 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 The Beaches
Same city, different workload.
Radio Stations hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.