Fergus, Canada
Server infrastructure for Surveying in Fergus
The right server for Surveying is decided by the work it has to do, not by the size of the plan you happen to land on. For a small Surveying business in Fergus 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 Fergus. 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.
Fergus is closest to Toronto. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Fergus ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Toronto, Canada | 50 miles | 1–2 ms |
| New York, United States | 386 miles | 9–19 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 389 miles | 9–19 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 721 miles | 17–35 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,164 miles | 28–56 ms |
| Miami, United States | 1,240 miles | 30–60 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 2,019 miles | 49–97 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 2,122 miles | 51–102 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 2,203 miles | 53–106 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 3,586 miles | 87–173 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 3,752 miles | 91–181 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 3,794 miles | 92–183 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 3,960 miles | 96–191 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 3,971 miles | 96–192 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 4,162 miles | 100–201 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 4,857 miles | 117–234 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 5,795 miles | 140–280 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 6,403 miles | 155–309 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 7,251 miles | 175–350 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 7,780 miles | 188–376 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 7,782 miles | 188–376 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 7,802 miles | 188–377 ms |
| Singapore | 9,313 miles | 225–450 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 9,624 miles | 232–465 ms |
Distances are from Fergus. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Surveying in Fergus
The closest of our 24 data centres to Fergus is Toronto, about 50 miles away. Every kilometre between your users and the server is latency you cannot optimise away in software.
Fergus has a population of about 20,767, 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 America/Toronto, 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 PIPEDA. Pricing is quoted in CAD, and the figure is the same wherever the machine physically sits.
Network reach from Fergus
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Fergus | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Torontoamericas | 50 miles | 1–2 ms |
| New Yorkamericas | 386 miles | 9–19 ms |
| Chicagoamericas | 389 miles | 9–19 ms |
Fergus sits in Ontario, 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 Fergus — FAQs
What size server does a Surveying business in Fergus, ON need?
Where would the server for my Fergus, ON 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 Fergus
Same city, different workload.
Surveying hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.