Ballina, Australia
Server infrastructure for Surveying in Ballina
Most Surveying outgrow their first server in one specific place — and it is rarely the one the plan name suggests. For a small Surveying business in Ballina that is about 2 Cores, 32 GB of memory and 1500 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 Ballina. 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 Surveying Most likely here
1–10 people · ~5,000 visits a month
$502.60 USD USD
per month · VDS
- 2 Cores
- 32 GB RAM
- 1500 GB storage
- GPU on request
About 0.1 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 22.4 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Medium Surveying
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
- GPU on request
About 0.6 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 64 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Large Surveying
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
- GPU on request
About 6.2 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 Surveying size up this way
Working from about 5,000 visits a month and roughly 2,667 requests a day, storage grows by roughly 88 GB a month at this size, which usually decides the build before CPU does; about 22 GB of data needs to stay in memory to keep queries fast; each request costs real computation rather than a cache lookup, so cores matter more here than on a typical site; and the software is Windows-based, which sets a floor on cores, memory and disk before the workload is considered.
- 0.1 req/sec at peak
- 22.4 GB working set
- 88 GB/month growth
- Windows
Which tiers suit Surveying
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 hosting serves websites; it cannot present a Windows desktop to work on. |
| VPS Flexible virtual infrastructure with full root access | Workable | Adequate for light remote desktop work — email, documents, a line-of-business application. |
| VDS Virtual server with resources pinned to you alone | Recommended | Guaranteed CPU and memory are what make a remote desktop feel like a local one rather than a slideshow. |
| Dedicated Server An entire physical server, configured to your specification | Recommended | The right tier for CAD, BIM and rendering, where the whole machine is in use for hours at a stretch. |
| Bare Metal Physical compute for sustained, demanding workloads | Recommended | For teams running several workstations on one physical host, with GPUs available on request. |
Surveying workloads you can host
A single scan is a point cloud of hundreds of millions of points, and the client wants it years later.
- Point cloud storage
- Total station & GNSS data
- Drawing production
- Site photography
- Deliverable archive
Where your server runs
All 24 locations cost the same, so pick whichever sits closest to the people who will actually use the server.
Ballina is closest to Sydney. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Ballina ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Sydney, Australia | 372 miles | 9–18 ms |
| Singapore | 3,888 miles | 94–188 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 4,399 miles | 106–212 ms |
| Tokyo, Japan | 4,549 miles | 110–220 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 5,602 miles | 135–270 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 6,308 miles | 152–305 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 6,399 miles | 154–309 ms |
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Santa Clara, United States | 7,124 miles | 172–344 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 7,212 miles | 174–348 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 7,410 miles | 179–358 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 8,336 miles | 201–402 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 8,953 miles | 216–432 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 9,048 miles | 218–437 ms |
| Miami, United States | 9,162 miles | 221–442 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 9,376 miles | 226–453 ms |
| New York, United States | 9,657 miles | 233–466 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 8,829 miles | 213–426 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 9,387 miles | 227–453 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 9,477 miles | 229–458 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 10,089 miles | 244–487 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 10,156 miles | 245–490 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 10,187 miles | 246–492 ms |
| London, United Kingdom | 10,364 miles | 250–500 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 10,921 miles | 264–527 ms |
Distances are from Ballina. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Surveying in Ballina
The closest of our 24 data centres to Ballina is Sydney, about 372 miles away. Round-trip time is set by physical distance more than by anything else, so the nearest site is usually the right one.
Ballina has a population of about 5,662, which is why the small build above is the one most likely to fit a Surveying business here — though the other two are a click away if it does not. Local time is Australia/Sydney, 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 Privacy Act 1988. Pricing is quoted in AUD, and the figure is the same wherever the machine physically sits.
Network reach from Ballina
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Ballina | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Sydneyapac | 372 miles | 9–18 ms |
| Singaporeapac | 3,888 miles | 94–188 ms |
| Hong Kongapac | 4,399 miles | 106–212 ms |
Ballina sits in New South 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 small size assumed above, that is roughly 2,667 requests a day crossing that link.
Surveying hosting in Ballina — FAQs
What size server does a Surveying business in Ballina, NSW need?
Where would the server for my Ballina, NSW business actually run?
Is a VPS enough for Surveying, or do we need a dedicated server?
Can you host point cloud storage for us?
Can we start smaller and grow?
Other industries in Ballina
Same city, different workload.
Surveying hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.