The Colony, United States
Server infrastructure for Surveying in The Colony
Sizing infrastructure for Surveying starts with the workload, then works back to cores, memory and disk. For a medium Surveying business in The Colony 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 The Colony. 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.
The Colony has a data centre of its own. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from The Colony ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Dallas, United States | Same city | 1–2 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 722 miles | 17–35 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 790 miles | 19–38 ms |
| Miami, United States | 1,123 miles | 27–54 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 1,192 miles | 29–58 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 1,229 miles | 30–59 ms |
| New York, United States | 1,364 miles | 33–66 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 1,441 miles | 35–70 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 1,661 miles | 40–80 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 4,735 miles | 114–229 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 4,896 miles | 118–236 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 4,935 miles | 119–238 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 5,057 miles | 122–244 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 5,117 miles | 124–247 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 5,314 miles | 128–257 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 5,995 miles | 145–289 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 6,943 miles | 168–335 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 6,444 miles | 156–311 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 8,096 miles | 195–391 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 8,162 miles | 197–394 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 8,575 miles | 207–414 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 8,589 miles | 207–415 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 8,770 miles | 212–423 ms |
| Singapore | 9,701 miles | 234–468 ms |
Distances are from The Colony. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Surveying in The Colony
The closest of our 24 data centres to The Colony is Dallas, about 22 miles away. Round-trip time is set by physical distance more than by anything else, so the nearest site is usually the right one.
The Colony has a population of about 41,779, 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/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 The Colony
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from The Colony | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Dallasamericas | In your metro | 1–2 ms |
| Atlantaamericas | 722 miles | 17–35 ms |
| Chicagoamericas | 790 miles | 19–38 ms |
The Colony sits in Texas, 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 The Colony — FAQs
What size server does a Surveying business in The Colony, TX need?
Where would the server for my The Colony, TX 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 The Colony
Same city, different workload.
Surveying hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.