Denver, United States
Server infrastructure for Stock Photography in Denver
Infrastructure for Stock Photography is a question of matching the machine to the application, then putting it near the people using it. For a large Stock Photography business in Denver that is about 20 Cores, 320 GB of memory and 4000 GB of storage on Bare Metal.
- ✓ 5 infrastructure tiers
- ✓ Sized for your workload, not a plan name
- ✓ Same price in all 24 locations
Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Denver. 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
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 Most likely here
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 500,000 visits a month and roughly 800,000 requests a day, storage grows by roughly 1,400 GB a month at this size, which usually decides the build before CPU does; and about 256 GB of data needs to stay in memory to keep queries fast.
- 27.8 req/sec at peak
- 256 GB working set
- 1,400 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.
Denver is closest to Dallas. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Denver ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Dallas, United States | 662 miles | 16–32 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 830 miles | 20–40 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 918 miles | 22–44 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 930 miles | 22–45 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 1,020 miles | 25–49 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 1,210 miles | 29–58 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 1,343 miles | 32–65 ms |
| New York, United States | 1,627 miles | 39–79 ms |
| Miami, United States | 1,725 miles | 42–83 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 4,685 miles | 113–226 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 4,817 miles | 116–233 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 4,862 miles | 117–235 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 5,012 miles | 121–242 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 5,043 miles | 122–243 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 5,280 miles | 127–255 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 5,875 miles | 142–284 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 6,846 miles | 165–331 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 5,801 miles | 140–280 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 7,461 miles | 180–360 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 7,717 miles | 186–373 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 8,046 miles | 194–388 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 8,331 miles | 201–402 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 8,371 miles | 202–404 ms |
| Singapore | 9,064 miles | 219–438 ms |
Distances are from Denver. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Stock Photography in Denver
We work with businesses across Downtown / LoDo, RiNo, Cherry Creek, Capitol Hill and the Highlands. Denver is an active, design-conscious market that rewards fast, modern sites.
The closest of our 24 data centres to Denver is Dallas, about 662 miles away. Every kilometre between your users and the server is latency you cannot optimise away in software.
Denver has a population of about 729,019, which is why the large 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 America/Denver, 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 Denver
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Denver | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Dallasamericas | 662 miles | 16–32 ms |
| Los Angelesamericas | 830 miles | 20–40 ms |
| Chicagoamericas | 918 miles | 22–44 ms |
Denver sits in Colorado, 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 800,000 requests a day crossing that link.
Stock Photography hosting in Denver — FAQs
What size server does a Stock Photography business in Denver, CO need?
Where would the server for my Denver, CO 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 Denver
Same city, different workload.
Stock Photography hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.