Santa Ana, United States
Server infrastructure for Surveying in Santa Ana
There is no single correct server for Surveying; there is a correct one for the workload, the volume and the budget. For a large Surveying business in Santa Ana 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 Santa Ana. 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.
Santa Ana is closest to Los Angeles. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Santa Ana ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Los Angeles, United States | 30 miles | 1–2 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 339 miles | 8–16 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 985 miles | 24–48 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,217 miles | 29–59 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 1,733 miles | 42–84 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 1,915 miles | 46–92 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 2,163 miles | 52–104 ms |
| Miami, United States | 2,313 miles | 56–112 ms |
| New York, United States | 2,435 miles | 59–118 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 5,446 miles | 131–263 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 5,530 miles | 133–267 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 5,562 miles | 134–269 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 5,787 miles | 140–279 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 5,818 miles | 140–281 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 6,042 miles | 146–292 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 6,581 miles | 159–318 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 7,553 miles | 182–365 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 5,510 miles | 133–266 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 7,269 miles | 175–351 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 7,511 miles | 181–363 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 8,019 miles | 194–387 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 8,180 miles | 197–395 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 8,719 miles | 210–421 ms |
| Singapore | 8,804 miles | 213–425 ms |
Distances are from Santa Ana. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Surveying in Santa Ana
The closest of our 24 data centres to Santa Ana is Los Angeles, about 30 miles away. Round-trip time is set by physical distance more than by anything else, so the nearest site is usually the right one.
Santa Ana has a population of about 310,227, 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 America/Los Angeles, 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 Santa Ana
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Santa Ana | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Los Angelesamericas | 30 miles | 1–2 ms |
| Santa Claraamericas | 339 miles | 8–16 ms |
| Seattleamericas | 985 miles | 24–48 ms |
Santa Ana sits in California, 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 large size assumed above, that is roughly 266,667 requests a day crossing that link.
Surveying hosting in Santa Ana — FAQs
What size server does a Surveying business in Santa Ana, CA need?
Where would the server for my Santa Ana, CA 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 Santa Ana
Same city, different workload.
Surveying hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.