New York, United States
Server infrastructure for Retail Stores in New York
Sizing infrastructure for Retail Stores starts with the workload, then works back to cores, memory and disk. For a large Retail Stores business in New York that is about 6 Cores, 48 GB of memory and 500 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 New York. 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
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 Most likely here
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.
New York has a data centre of its own. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from New York ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| New York, United States | Same city | 1–2 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 342 miles | 8–17 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 711 miles | 17–34 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 746 miles | 18–36 ms |
| Miami, United States | 1,092 miles | 26–53 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,371 miles | 33–66 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 2,402 miles | 58–116 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 2,446 miles | 59–118 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 2,552 miles | 62–123 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 3,461 miles | 84–167 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 3,584 miles | 87–173 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 3,643 miles | 88–176 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 3,854 miles | 93–186 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 3,927 miles | 95–190 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 4,017 miles | 97–194 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 4,754 miles | 115–230 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 5,664 miles | 137–273 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 6,743 miles | 163–326 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 7,313 miles | 177–353 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 7,791 miles | 188–376 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 7,920 miles | 191–382 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 8,050 miles | 194–389 ms |
| Singapore | 9,527 miles | 230–460 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 9,935 miles | 240–480 ms |
Distances are from New York. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Retail Stores in New York
We work with businesses across Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island. New York is one of the most competitive markets on earth, where customers expect a fast, polished site and decide in seconds.
The closest of our 24 data centres to New York is New York, about under a mile away. Round-trip time is set by physical distance more than by anything else, so the nearest site is usually the right one.
New York has a population of about 8,804,190, which is why the large 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/New York, 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 New York
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from New York | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| New Yorkamericas | In your metro | 1–2 ms |
| Torontoamericas | 342 miles | 8–17 ms |
| Chicagoamericas | 711 miles | 17–34 ms |
New York sits in New York, 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 1,800,000 requests a day crossing that link.
Retail Stores hosting in New York — FAQs
What size server does a Retail Stores business in New York, NY need?
Where would the server for my New York, NY 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 New York
Same city, different workload.
Retail Stores hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.