Swansea, United Kingdom
Server infrastructure for Stock Photography in Swansea
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 Swansea 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 Swansea. 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.
Swansea is closest to London. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Swansea ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 164 miles | 4–8 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 380 miles | 9–18 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 560 miles | 14–27 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 734 miles | 18–35 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 774 miles | 19–37 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 1,006 miles | 24–49 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 1,462 miles | 35–71 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 2,365 miles | 57–114 ms |
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| New York, United States | 3,302 miles | 80–159 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 3,396 miles | 82–164 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 3,797 miles | 92–183 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 4,048 miles | 98–195 ms |
| Miami, United States | 4,265 miles | 103–206 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 4,596 miles | 111–222 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 4,676 miles | 113–226 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 5,243 miles | 127–253 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 5,311 miles | 128–256 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Delhi NCR, India | 4,341 miles | 105–210 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 4,632 miles | 112–224 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 5,104 miles | 123–246 ms |
| Tokyo, Japan | 6,015 miles | 145–290 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 6,111 miles | 148–295 ms |
| Singapore | 6,898 miles | 167–333 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 10,694 miles | 258–516 ms |
Distances are from Swansea. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Stock Photography in Swansea
The closest of our 24 data centres to Swansea is London, about 164 miles away. Choosing the closest data centre is the cheapest performance improvement available, and it costs nothing extra.
Swansea has a population of about 300,352, 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 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 Swansea
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Swansea | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Londonemea | 164 miles | 4–8 ms |
| Amsterdamemea | 380 miles | 9–18 ms |
| Frankfurtemea | 560 miles | 14–27 ms |
Swansea sits in Wales, 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 Swansea — FAQs
What size server does a Stock Photography business in Swansea, Wales need?
Where would the server for my Swansea, Wales 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 Swansea
Same city, different workload.