London, Canada
Server infrastructure for Restaurants & Food Businesses in London
Most Restaurants & Food Businesses outgrow their first server in one specific place — and it is rarely the one the plan name suggests. For a large Restaurants & Food business in London that is about 4 Cores, 24 GB of memory and 250 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 London. 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 Restaurants & Food
1–10 people · ~5,000 visits a month
On request
Shared Hosting
- Single Core
- 4 GB RAM
- 40 GB storage
About 0.5 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 1.4 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Medium Restaurants & Food
11–50 people · ~50,000 visits a month
$97.40 USD USD
per month · VPS
- Single Core
- 8 GB RAM
- 80 GB storage
- Managed
About 5.4 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 4 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Large Restaurants & Food Most likely here
51+ people · ~500,000 visits a month
$296.05 USD USD
per month · VDS
- 4 Cores
- 24 GB RAM
- 250 GB storage
- Managed
About 54.0 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 16 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.
Which tiers suit Restaurants & Food Businesses
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 | Workable | Workable for a single small property or practice, though a shared database is the first thing to strain when bookings cluster. |
| VPS Flexible virtual infrastructure with full root access | Recommended | A VPS handles a booking engine and its database comfortably, with predictable performance when enquiries spike. |
| VDS Virtual server with resources pinned to you alone | Recommended | Pinned resources matter here: a reservation that times out at the payment step is a booking you never see. |
| Dedicated Server An entire physical server, configured to your specification | Workable | Right once you are running several properties, or a property management system alongside the public site. |
| Bare Metal Physical compute for sustained, demanding workloads | Not this one | Reservation workloads are database-bound rather than compute-bound, so the extra physical capacity goes unused. |
Restaurants & Food Businesses workloads you can host
- Restaurant website
- Online ordering
- Table reservations
- POS integration
- Delivery management
- Loyalty & CRM
- Inventory
Restaurants & Food in London, business by business
These are not the same workload. Sized at the large band, here is what each one actually needs.
| Business | Build | Tier | What decides it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Restaurants | 4 vCPU · 24 GB · 250 GB | VDS | Two sharp peaks a day and almost nothing between them — capacity is sized for the dinner rush, not the afterno... |
| Cafés | 4 vCPU · 16 GB · 200 GB | VPS | The morning rush is short, concentrated and unforgiving of a slow order screen. |
| Coffee Shops | 6 vCPU · 24 GB · 200 GB | VDS | Mobile order-ahead moves the queue into the app, which means the spike hits the server instead of the counter. |
| Fast Food | 8 vCPU · 32 GB · 250 GB | VDS | Kitchen display screens want sub-second updates: an order that appears late is food cooked late. |
| Food Delivery | 12 vCPU · 96 GB · 400 GB | Dedicated Server | Live tracking means a persistent connection per active order, which is a very different load from serving page... |
| Catering Companies | 2 vCPU · 24 GB · 250 GB | VDS | Few, large, planned jobs: the system is a quoting and costing tool rather than a live order pipe. |
| Bakeries | 4 vCPU · 16 GB · 200 GB | VPS | Production is planned the night before against orders taken the day before — the deadline is the oven, not the... |
| Cloud Kitchens | 6 vCPU · 48 GB · 300 GB | VDS | Several brands out of one kitchen means several order streams competing for the same physical capacity. |
| Bars & Pubs | 4 vCPU · 24 GB · 250 GB | VDS | Weekend evenings and event nights carry almost all the load, and a big fixture rewrites the week. |
| Restaurant Chains | 16 vCPU · 196 GB · 600 GB | Dedicated Server | A menu change has to reach every site consistently, and every site reports back — the centre carries both dire... |
| Food Manufacturing | 16 vCPU · 196 GB · 1500 GB | Dedicated Server | Traceability is a legal obligation: every batch has to be followed from ingredient to pallet, and kept. |
Where your server runs
All 24 locations cost the same, so pick whichever sits closest to the people who will actually use the server.
London is closest to Toronto. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from London ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Toronto, Canada | 104 miles | 3–5 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 335 miles | 8–16 ms |
| New York, United States | 404 miles | 10–19 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 660 miles | 16–32 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,100 miles | 27–53 ms |
| Miami, United States | 1,191 miles | 29–58 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 1,999 miles | 48–97 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 2,075 miles | 50–100 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 2,163 miles | 52–104 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 3,651 miles | 88–176 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 3,817 miles | 92–184 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 3,854 miles | 93–186 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 4,025 miles | 97–194 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 4,036 miles | 97–195 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 4,227 miles | 102–204 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 4,922 miles | 119–238 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 5,860 miles | 141–283 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 6,423 miles | 155–310 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 7,312 miles | 177–353 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 7,820 miles | 189–378 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 7,844 miles | 189–379 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 7,859 miles | 190–379 ms |
| Singapore | 9,357 miles | 226–452 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 9,577 miles | 231–462 ms |
Distances are from London. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Restaurants & Food Businesses in London
The closest of our 24 data centres to London is Toronto, about 104 miles away. The price is the same in all 24 locations, so distance is the only variable worth optimising.
London has a population of about 422,324, which is why the large build above is the one most likely to fit a Restaurants & Food 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 London
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from London | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Torontoamericas | 104 miles | 3–5 ms |
| Chicagoamericas | 335 miles | 8–16 ms |
| New Yorkamericas | 404 miles | 10–19 ms |
London 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 large size assumed above, that is roughly 1,166,667 requests a day crossing that link.
Restaurants & Food Businesses hosting in London — FAQs
What size server does a Restaurants & Food business in London, ON need?
Where would the server for my London, ON business actually run?
Is a VPS enough for Restaurants & Food Businesses, or do we need a dedicated server?
Can you host restaurant website for us?
Can we start smaller and grow?
Other industries in London
Same city, different workload.
Restaurants & Food Businesses hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.