Deeside, United Kingdom
Server infrastructure for Surveying in Deeside
What Surveying actually need from a server is predictable performance under load, and enough headroom to grow into. For a medium Surveying business in Deeside that is about 6 Cores, 96 GB of memory and 4000 GB of storage on Dedicated Server.
- ✓ 5 infrastructure tiers
- ✓ Sized for your workload, not a plan name
- ✓ Same price in all 24 locations
Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Deeside. 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
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 Most likely here
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 50,000 visits a month and roughly 26,667 requests a day, storage grows by roughly 250 GB a month at this size, which usually decides the build before CPU does; about 64 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.
- 0.6 req/sec at peak
- 64 GB working set
- 250 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.
Deeside is closest to London. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Deeside ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 170 miles | 4–8 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 337 miles | 8–16 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 545 miles | 13–26 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 765 miles | 18–37 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 884 miles | 21–43 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 908 miles | 22–44 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 1,445 miles | 35–70 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 2,369 miles | 57–114 ms |
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| New York, United States | 3,310 miles | 80–160 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 3,391 miles | 82–164 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 3,786 miles | 91–183 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 4,055 miles | 98–196 ms |
| Miami, United States | 4,291 miles | 104–207 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 4,587 miles | 111–221 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 4,616 miles | 111–223 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 5,195 miles | 125–251 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 5,271 miles | 127–254 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Delhi NCR, India | 4,281 miles | 103–207 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 4,592 miles | 111–222 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 5,038 miles | 122–243 ms |
| Tokyo, Japan | 5,901 miles | 142–285 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 6,017 miles | 145–291 ms |
| Singapore | 6,834 miles | 165–330 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 10,599 miles | 256–512 ms |
Distances are from Deeside. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Surveying in Deeside
The closest of our 24 data centres to Deeside is London, about 170 miles away. Round-trip time is set by physical distance more than by anything else, so the nearest site is usually the right one.
Deeside has a population of about 32,000, which is why the medium 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 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 Deeside
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Deeside | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Londonemea | 170 miles | 4–8 ms |
| Amsterdamemea | 337 miles | 8–16 ms |
| Frankfurtemea | 545 miles | 13–26 ms |
Deeside 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 medium size assumed above, that is roughly 26,667 requests a day crossing that link.
Surveying hosting in Deeside — FAQs
What size server does a Surveying business in Deeside, Wales need?
Where would the server for my Deeside, Wales 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 Deeside
Same city, different workload.