Antrim, United Kingdom
Server infrastructure for Stock Photography in Antrim
The right server for Stock Photography is decided by the work it has to do, not by the size of the plan you happen to land on. For a small Stock Photography business in Antrim that is about 2 Cores, 32 GB of memory and 2000 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 Antrim. 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 Stock Photography Most likely here
1–10 people · ~5,000 visits a month
$570.10 USD USD
per month · VDS
- 2 Cores
- 32 GB RAM
- 2000 GB storage
About 0.3 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 22.4 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Medium Stock Photography
11–50 people · ~50,000 visits a month
$1,296.40 USD USD
per month · Dedicated Server
- 6 Cores
- 96 GB RAM
- 4000 GB storage
- Managed
About 2.8 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 64 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Large Stock Photography
51+ people · ~500,000 visits a month
$3,070.30 USD USD
per month · Bare Metal
- 20 Cores
- 320 GB RAM
- 4000 GB storage
- Managed
About 27.8 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 256 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 Stock Photography size up this way
Working from about 5,000 visits a month and roughly 8,000 requests a day, storage grows by roughly 123 GB a month at this size, which usually decides the build before CPU does; and about 22 GB of data needs to stay in memory to keep queries fast.
- 0.3 req/sec at peak
- 22.4 GB working set
- 123 GB/month growth
- Linux
Which tiers suit Stock Photography
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 | Shared plans cap disk long before a video or photo library needs them to, and cannot sustain the read throughput. |
| VPS Flexible virtual infrastructure with full root access | Workable | Fine for a catalogue and a website; the library itself will outgrow the disk faster than the CPU. |
| VDS Virtual server with resources pinned to you alone | Recommended | Storage-weighted builds with guaranteed throughput, which is what serving large files consistently actually requires. |
| Dedicated Server An entire physical server, configured to your specification | Recommended | The right tier once the library runs to terabytes, or when transcoding runs alongside delivery. |
| Bare Metal Physical compute for sustained, demanding workloads | Recommended | For transcoding, rendering and archives at a scale where disk and CPU are both saturated for hours at a time. |
Stock Photography workloads you can host
Search across millions of images with metadata is the product, and every size variant is generated and stored.
- Searchable image index
- Keyword & metadata
- Licensing & rights
- Contributor payouts
- Derivative rendering
Where your server runs
All 24 locations cost the same, so pick whichever sits closest to the people who will actually use the server.
Antrim is closest to London. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Antrim ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 336 miles | 8–16 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 484 miles | 12–23 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 702 miles | 17–34 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 932 miles | 22–45 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 961 miles | 23–46 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 995 miles | 24–48 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 1,594 miles | 38–77 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 2,528 miles | 61–122 ms |
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| New York, United States | 3,160 miles | 76–153 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 3,234 miles | 78–156 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 3,626 miles | 88–175 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 3,904 miles | 94–188 ms |
| Miami, United States | 4,153 miles | 100–201 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 4,428 miles | 107–214 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 4,453 miles | 107–215 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 5,029 miles | 121–243 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 5,105 miles | 123–246 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Delhi NCR, India | 4,386 miles | 106–212 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 4,717 miles | 114–228 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 5,133 miles | 124–248 ms |
| Tokyo, Japan | 5,871 miles | 142–283 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 6,061 miles | 146–293 ms |
| Singapore | 6,929 miles | 167–335 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 10,631 miles | 257–513 ms |
Distances are from Antrim. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Stock Photography in Antrim
The closest of our 24 data centres to Antrim is London, about 336 miles away. Round-trip time is set by physical distance more than by anything else, so the nearest site is usually the right one.
Antrim has a population of about 19,661, which is why the small build above is the one most likely to fit a Stock Photography business here — though the other two are a click away if it does not. Local time is Europe/London, 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 UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018. Pricing is quoted in GBP, and the figure is the same wherever the machine physically sits.
Network reach from Antrim
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Antrim | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Londonemea | 336 miles | 8–16 ms |
| Amsterdamemea | 484 miles | 12–23 ms |
| Frankfurtemea | 702 miles | 17–34 ms |
Antrim sits in Northern Ireland, 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 8,000 requests a day crossing that link.
Stock Photography hosting in Antrim — FAQs
What size server does a Stock Photography business in Antrim, Northern Ireland need?
Where would the server for my Antrim, Northern Ireland business actually run?
Is a VPS enough for Stock Photography, or do we need a dedicated server?
Can you host searchable image index for us?
Can we start smaller and grow?
Other industries in Antrim
Same city, different workload.
Stock Photography hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.