Snowdon, Canada
Server infrastructure for Surveying in Snowdon
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 medium Surveying business in Snowdon 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 Snowdon. 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.
Snowdon is closest to Toronto. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Snowdon ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Toronto, Canada | 310 miles | 7–15 ms |
| New York, United States | 330 miles | 8–16 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 741 miles | 18–36 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 991 miles | 24–48 ms |
| Miami, United States | 1,411 miles | 34–68 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,512 miles | 36–73 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 2,281 miles | 55–110 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 2,462 miles | 59–119 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 2,526 miles | 61–122 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 3,247 miles | 78–157 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 3,418 miles | 83–165 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 3,441 miles | 83–166 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 3,635 miles | 88–175 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 3,657 miles | 88–177 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 3,819 miles | 92–184 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 4,526 miles | 109–219 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 5,457 miles | 132–263 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 6,457 miles | 156–312 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 7,008 miles | 169–338 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 7,506 miles | 181–362 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 7,600 miles | 183–367 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 7,726 miles | 187–373 ms |
| Singapore | 9,197 miles | 222–444 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 9,957 miles | 240–481 ms |
Distances are from Snowdon. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Surveying in Snowdon
The closest of our 24 data centres to Snowdon is Toronto, about 310 miles away. The price is the same in all 24 locations, so distance is the only variable worth optimising.
Snowdon has a population of about 32,160, 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 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 Snowdon
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Snowdon | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Torontoamericas | 310 miles | 7–15 ms |
| New Yorkamericas | 330 miles | 8–16 ms |
| Chicagoamericas | 741 miles | 18–36 ms |
Snowdon sits in Quebec, 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 Snowdon — FAQs
What size server does a Surveying business in Snowdon, QC need?
Where would the server for my Snowdon, QC 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 Snowdon
Same city, different workload.
Surveying hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.