Alice, United States
Server infrastructure for Retail Stores in Alice
The right server for Retail Stores is decided by the work it has to do, not by the size of the plan you happen to land on. For a small Retail Stores business in Alice that is about Single Core, 6 GB of memory and 80 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 Alice. 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 Retail Stores Most likely here
1–10 people · ~5,000 visits a month
$81.20 USD USD
per month · VPS
- Single Core
- 6 GB RAM
- 80 GB storage
About 0.8 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 2.8 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Medium Retail Stores
11–50 people · ~50,000 visits a month
$136.55 USD USD
per month · VPS
- Single Core
- 12 GB RAM
- 150 GB storage
- Managed
About 8.3 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 8 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Large Retail Stores
51+ people · ~500,000 visits a month
$499.90 USD USD
per month · VDS
- 6 Cores
- 48 GB RAM
- 500 GB storage
- Managed
About 83.3 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 32 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 Retail Stores
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 | Fine for a first storefront with a small catalogue, but checkout under load is where shared hosting shows its limits. |
| VPS Flexible virtual infrastructure with full root access | Recommended | Enough headroom for a catalogue, a cart and a payment gateway, with the caching layers a store needs to stay quick. |
| VDS Virtual server with resources pinned to you alone | Recommended | Guaranteed CPU is what keeps checkout responsive during a sale, when traffic arrives all at once rather than evenly. |
| Dedicated Server An entire physical server, configured to your specification | Recommended | The right tier for a high-traffic store, or one whose database has outgrown what a virtual instance can cache. |
| Bare Metal Physical compute for sustained, demanding workloads | Workable | Reserved for very large catalogues and enterprise commerce platforms running their own search and queue tiers. |
Retail Stores workloads you can host
Tills must keep working when the connection does not, so the server is the reconciliation point rather than the critical path.
- POS terminals
- Stock control
- Click & collect
- Loyalty scheme
- Shop website
Where your server runs
All 24 locations cost the same, so pick whichever sits closest to the people who will actually use the server.
Alice is closest to Dallas. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Alice ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Dallas, United States | 355 miles | 9–17 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 911 miles | 22–44 ms |
| Miami, United States | 1,111 miles | 27–54 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 1,140 miles | 28–55 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 1,270 miles | 31–61 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 1,512 miles | 36–73 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 1,535 miles | 37–74 ms |
| New York, United States | 1,632 miles | 39–79 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 1,893 miles | 46–91 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 5,060 miles | 122–244 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 5,216 miles | 126–252 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 5,229 miles | 126–252 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 5,415 miles | 131–261 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 5,447 miles | 131–263 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 5,631 miles | 136–272 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 6,333 miles | 153–306 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 7,270 miles | 176–351 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 6,664 miles | 161–322 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 8,363 miles | 202–404 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 8,381 miles | 202–405 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 8,536 miles | 206–412 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 8,933 miles | 216–431 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 9,145 miles | 221–442 ms |
| Singapore | 9,956 miles | 240–481 ms |
Distances are from Alice. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Retail Stores in Alice
The closest of our 24 data centres to Alice is Dallas, about 355 miles away. Round-trip time is set by physical distance more than by anything else, so the nearest site is usually the right one.
Alice has a population of about 19,408, which is why the small build above is the one most likely to fit a Retail Stores business here — though the other two are a click away if it does not. Local time is America/Chicago, 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 Alice
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Alice | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Dallasamericas | 355 miles | 9–17 ms |
| Atlantaamericas | 911 miles | 22–44 ms |
| Miamiamericas | 1,111 miles | 27–54 ms |
Alice sits in Texas, 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 18,000 requests a day crossing that link.
Retail Stores hosting in Alice — FAQs
What size server does a Retail Stores business in Alice, TX need?
Where would the server for my Alice, TX business actually run?
Is a VPS enough for Retail Stores, or do we need a dedicated server?
Can you host pOS terminals for us?
Can we start smaller and grow?
Other industries in Alice
Same city, different workload.
Retail Stores hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.