St. Louis, United States
Server infrastructure for Surveying in St. Louis
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 St. Louis 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 St. Louis. 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.
St. Louis is closest to Chicago. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from St. Louis ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Chicago, United States | 262 miles | 6–13 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 467 miles | 11–23 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 548 miles | 13–26 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 660 miles | 16–32 ms |
| New York, United States | 872 miles | 21–42 ms |
| Miami, United States | 1,063 miles | 26–51 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 1,586 miles | 38–77 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 1,720 miles | 42–83 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 1,723 miles | 42–83 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 4,200 miles | 101–203 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 4,362 miles | 105–211 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 4,410 miles | 106–213 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 4,537 miles | 110–219 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 4,582 miles | 111–221 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 4,779 miles | 115–231 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 5,463 miles | 132–264 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 6,408 miles | 155–309 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 6,397 miles | 154–309 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 7,728 miles | 187–373 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 7,940 miles | 192–383 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 8,207 miles | 198–396 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 8,302 miles | 200–401 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 9,063 miles | 219–438 ms |
| Singapore | 9,534 miles | 230–460 ms |
Distances are from St. Louis. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Surveying in St. Louis
The closest of our 24 data centres to St. Louis is Chicago, about 262 miles away. Round-trip time is set by physical distance more than by anything else, so the nearest site is usually the right one.
St. Louis has a population of about 279,695, 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/Chicago, 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 St. Louis
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from St. Louis | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Chicagoamericas | 262 miles | 6–13 ms |
| Atlantaamericas | 467 miles | 11–23 ms |
| Dallasamericas | 548 miles | 13–26 ms |
St. Louis sits in Missouri, 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 St. Louis — FAQs
What size server does a Surveying business in St. Louis, MO need?
Where would the server for my St. Louis, MO 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 St. Louis
Same city, different workload.
Surveying hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.