Charleston, United States
Server infrastructure for SMS Platforms in Charleston
The right server for SMS Platforms is decided by the work it has to do, not by the size of the plan you happen to land on. For a medium SMS Platforms business in Charleston that is about 2 Cores, 32 GB of memory and 200 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 Charleston. 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 SMS Platforms
1–10 people · ~5,000 visits a month
$162.20 USD USD
per month · VPS
- Single Core
- 16 GB RAM
- 80 GB storage
About 0.5 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 9.8 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Medium SMS Platforms Most likely here
11–50 people · ~50,000 visits a month
$327.10 USD USD
per month · VDS
- 2 Cores
- 32 GB RAM
- 200 GB storage
- Managed
About 5.2 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 28 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Large SMS Platforms
51+ people · ~500,000 visits a month
$1,087.15 USD USD
per month · Dedicated Server
- 8 Cores
- 128 GB RAM
- 600 GB storage
- Managed
About 52.1 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 112 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.
Why SMS Platforms size up this way
Working from about 50,000 visits a month and roughly 50,000 requests a day, peaks run about 9× the average hour, so the build is sized for the busiest moment rather than the typical one.
- 5.2 req/sec at peak
- 28 GB working set
- 5 GB/month growth
- Linux
Which tiers suit SMS Platforms
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 | Not this one | Persistent connections and custom ports are exactly what a shared platform does not permit. |
| VPS Flexible virtual infrastructure with full root access | Workable | Enough for a small server or a test instance, though a noisy neighbour shows up immediately as jitter. |
| VDS Virtual server with resources pinned to you alone | Recommended | Pinned cores are what keep tick rate and call quality steady; on a contended instance they are not. |
| Dedicated Server An entire physical server, configured to your specification | Recommended | Single-tenant hardware removes the last source of variance, which is what these workloads are judged on. |
| Bare Metal Physical compute for sustained, demanding workloads | Workable | For operators running many instances at once on hardware they control. |
SMS Platforms workloads you can host
A campaign send is a queue drained as fast as carriers accept it, and receipts come back for hours.
- Message queueing
- Carrier gateway connections
- Delivery receipts
- Two-way routing
- Throughput shaping
Where your server runs
All 24 locations cost the same, so pick whichever sits closest to the people who will actually use the server.
Charleston is closest to Atlanta. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Charleston ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Atlanta, United States | 266 miles | 6–13 ms |
| Miami, United States | 485 miles | 12–23 ms |
| New York, United States | 639 miles | 15–31 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 752 miles | 18–36 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 757 miles | 18–37 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 979 miles | 24–47 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 2,198 miles | 53–106 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 2,378 miles | 57–115 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 2,423 miles | 58–117 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 4,070 miles | 98–197 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 4,130 miles | 100–199 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 4,259 miles | 103–206 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 4,466 miles | 108–216 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 4,564 miles | 110–220 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 4,611 miles | 111–223 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 5,368 miles | 130–259 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 6,259 miles | 151–302 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 7,059 miles | 170–341 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 7,947 miles | 192–384 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 8,429 miles | 203–407 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 8,518 miles | 206–411 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 8,535 miles | 206–412 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 9,515 miles | 230–459 ms |
| Singapore | 10,066 miles | 243–486 ms |
Distances are from Charleston. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
SMS Platforms in Charleston
The closest of our 24 data centres to Charleston is Atlanta, about 266 miles away. Choosing the closest data centre is the cheapest performance improvement available, and it costs nothing extra.
Charleston has a population of about 132,609, which is why the medium build above is the one most likely to fit a SMS Platforms 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 Charleston
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Charleston | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Atlantaamericas | 266 miles | 6–13 ms |
| Miamiamericas | 485 miles | 12–23 ms |
| New Yorkamericas | 639 miles | 15–31 ms |
Charleston sits in South Carolina, 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 50,000 requests a day crossing that link.
SMS Platforms hosting in Charleston — FAQs
What size server does a SMS Platforms business in Charleston, SC need?
Where would the server for my Charleston, SC business actually run?
Is a VPS enough for SMS Platforms, or do we need a dedicated server?
Can you host message queueing for us?
Can we start smaller and grow?
Other industries in Charleston
Same city, different workload.
SMS Platforms hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.