Athens, United States
Server infrastructure for Retail Stores in Athens
There is no single correct server for Retail Stores; there is a correct one for the workload, the volume and the budget. For a small Retail Stores business in Athens 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 Athens. 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.
Athens is closest to Atlanta. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Athens ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Atlanta, United States | 165 miles | 4–8 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 490 miles | 12–24 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 581 miles | 14–28 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 733 miles | 18–35 ms |
| Miami, United States | 744 miles | 18–36 ms |
| New York, United States | 816 miles | 20–39 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 1,776 miles | 43–86 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 1,950 miles | 47–94 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 2,017 miles | 49–97 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 4,260 miles | 103–206 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 4,400 miles | 106–212 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 4,434 miles | 107–214 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 4,649 miles | 112–224 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 4,666 miles | 113–225 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 4,824 miles | 116–233 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 5,543 miles | 134–268 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 6,468 miles | 156–312 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 6,716 miles | 162–324 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 7,943 miles | 192–383 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 8,253 miles | 199–398 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 8,461 miles | 204–408 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 8,486 miles | 205–410 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 9,165 miles | 221–443 ms |
| Singapore | 9,843 miles | 238–475 ms |
Distances are from Athens. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Retail Stores in Athens
E-commerce & Retail is one of the sectors Athens is known for, so this is a workload we are asked about here more than most.
The closest of our 24 data centres to Athens is Atlanta, about 165 miles away. Every kilometre between your users and the server is latency you cannot optimise away in software.
Athens has a population of about 24,966, 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 Athens
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Athens | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Atlantaamericas | 165 miles | 4–8 ms |
| Chicagoamericas | 490 miles | 12–24 ms |
| Dallasamericas | 581 miles | 14–28 ms |
Athens sits in Alabama, 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 Athens — FAQs
What size server does a Retail Stores business in Athens, AL need?
Where would the server for my Athens, AL 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 Athens
Same city, different workload.
Retail Stores hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.