International City, United Arab Emirates
Server infrastructure for Retail Stores in International City
What Retail Stores actually need from a server is predictable performance under load, and enough headroom to grow into. For a medium Retail Stores business in International City that is about Single Core, 12 GB of memory and 150 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 International City. 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
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 Most likely here
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.
International City is closest to Mumbai. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from International City ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Mumbai, India | 1,193 miles | 29–58 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 1,373 miles | 33–66 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 2,085 miles | 50–101 ms |
| Singapore | 3,618 miles | 87–175 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 3,692 miles | 89–178 ms |
| Tokyo, Japan | 4,922 miles | 119–238 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 7,478 miles | 181–361 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 1,337 miles | 32–65 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 2,110 miles | 51–102 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 2,907 miles | 70–140 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 2,963 miles | 72–143 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 3,013 miles | 73–145 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 3,214 miles | 78–155 ms |
| London, United Kingdom | 3,409 miles | 82–165 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 3,523 miles | 85–170 ms |
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| New York, United States | 6,848 miles | 165–331 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 6,886 miles | 166–332 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 7,238 miles | 175–349 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 7,407 miles | 179–358 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 7,586 miles | 183–366 ms |
| Miami, United States | 7,837 miles | 189–378 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 8,035 miles | 194–388 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 8,114 miles | 196–392 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 8,324 miles | 201–402 ms |
Distances are from International City. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Retail Stores in International City
The closest of our 24 data centres to International City is Mumbai, about 1,193 miles away. Choosing the closest data centre is the cheapest performance improvement available, and it costs nothing extra.
International City has a population of about 120,000, which is why the medium 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 Asia/Dubai, 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 the UAE Personal Data Protection Law. Pricing is quoted in AED, and the figure is the same wherever the machine physically sits.
Network reach from International City
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from International City | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Mumbaiapac | 1,193 miles | 29–58 ms |
| Tel Avivemea | 1,337 miles | 32–65 ms |
| Delhi NCRapac | 1,373 miles | 33–66 ms |
International City sits in Dubai, 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 medium size assumed above, that is roughly 180,000 requests a day crossing that link.
Retail Stores hosting in International City — FAQs
What size server does a Retail Stores business in International City, Dubai need?
Where would the server for my International City, Dubai 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 International City
Same city, different workload.
Retail Stores hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.