Glasgow, United Kingdom
Server infrastructure for Surveying in Glasgow
What Surveying actually need from a server is predictable performance under load, and enough headroom to grow into. For a large Surveying business in Glasgow that is about 20 Cores, 320 GB of memory and 4000 GB of storage on Bare Metal.
- ✓ 5 infrastructure tiers
- ✓ Sized for your workload, not a plan name
- ✓ Same price in all 24 locations
Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Glasgow. 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
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 Most likely here
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 500,000 visits a month and roughly 266,667 requests a day, storage grows by roughly 1,000 GB a month at this size, which usually decides the build before CPU does; about 256 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.
- 6.2 req/sec at peak
- 256 GB working set
- 1,000 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.
Glasgow is closest to London. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Glasgow ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 345 miles | 8–17 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 442 miles | 11–21 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 667 miles | 16–32 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 856 miles | 21–41 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 926 miles | 22–45 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 1,068 miles | 26–52 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 1,541 miles | 37–74 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 2,488 miles | 60–120 ms |
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| New York, United States | 3,220 miles | 78–155 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 3,282 miles | 79–158 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 3,667 miles | 89–177 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 3,961 miles | 96–191 ms |
| Miami, United States | 4,225 miles | 102–204 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 4,445 miles | 107–215 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 4,471 miles | 108–216 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 5,033 miles | 122–243 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 5,118 miles | 124–247 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Delhi NCR, India | 4,295 miles | 104–207 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 4,638 miles | 112–224 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 5,037 miles | 122–243 ms |
| Tokyo, Japan | 5,765 miles | 139–278 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 5,952 miles | 144–287 ms |
| Singapore | 6,833 miles | 165–330 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 10,521 miles | 254–508 ms |
Distances are from Glasgow. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Surveying in Glasgow
We work with businesses across the City Centre, the Merchant City, the West End, Finnieston and Shawlands. Glasgow is Scotland’s largest market, where local relevance and speed win business.
The closest of our 24 data centres to Glasgow is London, about 345 miles away. The price is the same in all 24 locations, so distance is the only variable worth optimising.
Glasgow has a population of about 626,410, which is why the large 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 Glasgow
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Glasgow | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Londonemea | 345 miles | 8–17 ms |
| Amsterdamemea | 442 miles | 11–21 ms |
| Frankfurtemea | 667 miles | 16–32 ms |
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 large size assumed above, that is roughly 266,667 requests a day crossing that link.
Surveying hosting in Glasgow — FAQs
What size server does a Surveying business in Glasgow, Scotland need?
Where would the server for my Glasgow, Scotland 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 Glasgow
Same city, different workload.
Surveying hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.