Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Server infrastructure for Streaming Platforms in Aberdeen
What Streaming Platforms actually need from a server is predictable performance under load, and enough headroom to grow into. For a medium Streaming Platforms business in Aberdeen that is about 4 Cores, 48 GB of memory and 4000 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 Aberdeen. 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 Streaming Platforms
1–10 people · ~5,000 visits a month
$633.55 USD USD
per month · VDS
- 2 Cores
- 24 GB RAM
- 3000 GB storage
- GPU on request
About 0.3 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 14 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Medium Streaming Platforms Most likely here
11–50 people · ~50,000 visits a month
$938.65 USD USD
per month · VDS
- 4 Cores
- 48 GB RAM
- 4000 GB storage
- Managed
- GPU on request
About 2.8 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 40 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Large Streaming Platforms
51+ people · ~500,000 visits a month
$2,140.15 USD USD
per month · Dedicated Server
- 16 Cores
- 196 GB RAM
- 4000 GB storage
- Managed
- GPU on request
About 27.8 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 160 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 Streaming Platforms size up this way
Working from about 50,000 visits a month and roughly 80,000 requests a day, storage grows by roughly 500 GB a month at this size, which usually decides the build before CPU does; and about 40 GB of data needs to stay in memory to keep queries fast.
- 2.8 req/sec at peak
- 40 GB working set
- 500 GB/month growth
- Linux
Which tiers suit Streaming 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 | 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. |
Streaming Platforms workloads you can host
Transcoding one title into every bitrate is hours of CPU before a single viewer arrives.
- Video transcoding
- Adaptive bitrate delivery
- DRM & entitlement
- Catalogue & recommendations
- Playback analytics
Where your server runs
All 24 locations cost the same, so pick whichever sits closest to the people who will actually use the server.
Aberdeen is closest to London. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Aberdeen ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 397 miles | 10–19 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 432 miles | 10–21 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 655 miles | 16–32 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 746 miles | 18–36 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 940 miles | 23–45 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 1,158 miles | 28–56 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 1,496 miles | 36–72 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 2,454 miles | 59–118 ms |
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| New York, United States | 3,282 miles | 79–158 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 3,332 miles | 80–161 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 3,709 miles | 90–179 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 4,020 miles | 97–194 ms |
| Miami, United States | 4,300 miles | 104–208 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 4,432 miles | 107–214 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 4,514 miles | 109–218 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 5,033 miles | 121–243 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 5,127 miles | 124–248 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Delhi NCR, India | 4,199 miles | 101–203 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 4,557 miles | 110–220 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 4,936 miles | 119–238 ms |
| Tokyo, Japan | 5,647 miles | 136–273 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 5,834 miles | 141–282 ms |
| Singapore | 6,730 miles | 162–325 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 10,401 miles | 251–502 ms |
Distances are from Aberdeen. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Streaming Platforms in Aberdeen
The closest of our 24 data centres to Aberdeen is London, about 397 miles away. Round-trip time is set by physical distance more than by anything else, so the nearest site is usually the right one.
Aberdeen has a population of about 198,590, which is why the medium build above is the one most likely to fit a Streaming Platforms 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 Aberdeen
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Aberdeen | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Londonemea | 397 miles | 10–19 ms |
| Amsterdamemea | 432 miles | 10–21 ms |
| Frankfurtemea | 655 miles | 16–32 ms |
Aberdeen sits in Scotland, 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 80,000 requests a day crossing that link.
Streaming Platforms hosting in Aberdeen — FAQs
What size server does a Streaming Platforms business in Aberdeen, Scotland need?
Where would the server for my Aberdeen, Scotland business actually run?
Is a VPS enough for Streaming Platforms, or do we need a dedicated server?
Can you host video transcoding for us?
Can we start smaller and grow?
Other industries in Aberdeen
Same city, different workload.
Streaming Platforms hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.