Union, United States
Server infrastructure for Supermarkets in Union
What Supermarkets actually need from a server is predictable performance under load, and enough headroom to grow into. For a medium Supermarkets business in Union that is about 4 Cores, 48 GB of memory and 250 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 Union. 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 Supermarkets
1–10 people · ~5,000 visits a month
$164.90 USD USD
per month · VPS
- Single Core
- 16 GB RAM
- 100 GB storage
About 1.3 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 11.2 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Medium Supermarkets Most likely here
11–50 people · ~50,000 visits a month
$432.40 USD USD
per month · VDS
- 4 Cores
- 48 GB RAM
- 250 GB storage
- Managed
About 12.5 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 32 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Large Supermarkets
51+ people · ~500,000 visits a month
$1,708.15 USD USD
per month · Dedicated Server
- 16 Cores
- 196 GB RAM
- 800 GB storage
- Managed
About 125.0 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 128 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 Supermarkets size up this way
Working from about 50,000 visits a month and roughly 180,000 requests a day, peaks run about 6× the average hour, so the build is sized for the busiest moment rather than the typical one; and about 32 GB of data needs to stay in memory to keep queries fast.
- 12.5 req/sec at peak
- 32 GB working set
- 8 GB/month growth
- Linux
Which tiers suit Supermarkets
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 | Workable | Fine for a first storefront with a small catalogue, but checkout under load is where shared hosting shows its limits. |
| VPS Flexible virtual infrastructure with full root access | Recommended | Enough headroom for a catalogue, a cart and a payment gateway, with the caching layers a store needs to stay quick. |
| VDS Virtual server with resources pinned to you alone | Recommended | Guaranteed CPU is what keeps checkout responsive during a sale, when traffic arrives all at once rather than evenly. |
| Dedicated Server An entire physical server, configured to your specification | Recommended | The right tier for a high-traffic store, or one whose database has outgrown what a virtual instance can cache. |
| Bare Metal Physical compute for sustained, demanding workloads | Workable | Reserved for very large catalogues and enterprise commerce platforms running their own search and queue tiers. |
Supermarkets workloads you can host
Delivery-slot booking behaves like a ticket sale — everyone wants the same Saturday morning.
- POS & scales integration
- Perishable stock rotation
- Online grocery slots
- Promotions engine
- Supplier ordering
Where your server runs
All 24 locations cost the same, so pick whichever sits closest to the people who will actually use the server.
Union has a data centre of its own. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Union ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| New York, United States | Same city | 1–2 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 332 miles | 8–16 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 698 miles | 17–34 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 734 miles | 18–35 ms |
| Miami, United States | 1,087 miles | 26–52 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,357 miles | 33–66 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 2,391 miles | 58–115 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 2,432 miles | 59–117 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 2,539 miles | 61–123 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 3,472 miles | 84–168 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 3,597 miles | 87–174 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 3,654 miles | 88–176 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 3,865 miles | 93–187 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 3,936 miles | 95–190 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 4,028 miles | 97–194 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 4,765 miles | 115–230 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 5,675 miles | 137–274 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 6,738 miles | 163–325 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 7,320 miles | 177–353 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 7,799 miles | 188–377 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 7,925 miles | 191–383 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 8,049 miles | 194–389 ms |
| Singapore | 9,529 miles | 230–460 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 9,921 miles | 240–479 ms |
Distances are from Union. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Supermarkets in Union
The closest of our 24 data centres to Union is New York, about 14 miles away. Round-trip time is set by physical distance more than by anything else, so the nearest site is usually the right one.
Union has a population of about 56,771, which is why the medium build above is the one most likely to fit a Supermarkets 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 Union
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Union | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| New Yorkamericas | In your metro | 1–2 ms |
| Torontoamericas | 332 miles | 8–16 ms |
| Chicagoamericas | 698 miles | 17–34 ms |
Union sits in New Jersey, 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 180,000 requests a day crossing that link.
Supermarkets hosting in Union — FAQs
What size server does a Supermarkets business in Union, NJ need?
Where would the server for my Union, NJ business actually run?
Is a VPS enough for Supermarkets, or do we need a dedicated server?
Can you host pOS & scales integration for us?
Can we start smaller and grow?
Other industries in Union
Same city, different workload.