Shaw, United States
Server infrastructure for Technology Companies in Shaw
What Technology Companies actually need from a server is predictable performance under load, and enough headroom to grow into. For a small Technology & Software business in Shaw that is about Single Core, 8 GB of memory and 80 GB of storage on VPS.
- ✓ 5 infrastructure tiers
- ✓ Sized for your workload, not a plan name
- ✓ Same price in all 24 locations
Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Shaw. 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 Technology & Software Most likely here
1–10 people · ~5,000 visits a month
$97.40 USD USD
per month · VPS
- Single Core
- 8 GB RAM
- 80 GB storage
About 1.4 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 4.2 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Medium Technology & Software
11–50 people · ~50,000 visits a month
$173 USD USD
per month · VPS
- Single Core
- 16 GB RAM
- 200 GB storage
- Managed
About 13.9 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 12 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Large Technology & Software
51+ people · ~500,000 visits a month
$668.65 USD USD
per month · VDS
- 8 Cores
- 64 GB RAM
- 700 GB storage
- Managed
About 138.9 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 48 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.
Which tiers suit Technology Companies
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 cannot run background workers, queues or long-lived processes, which a SaaS application depends on. |
| VPS Flexible virtual infrastructure with full root access | Recommended | The natural home for an early-stage product: root access, your own runtime, and the ability to resize as you grow. |
| VDS Virtual server with resources pinned to you alone | Recommended | Pinned resources give you the predictable latency your customers will hold you to in an SLA. |
| Dedicated Server An entire physical server, configured to your specification | Recommended | Right once the database and the application tier are competing for the same memory on a single virtual instance. |
| Bare Metal Physical compute for sustained, demanding workloads | Workable | For platforms running their own virtualization, or holding a large working set entirely in memory. |
Technology Companies workloads you can host
- Application servers
- CI/CD pipelines
- Container registries
- Staging environments
- Internal tooling
- Databases
Technology & Software in Shaw, business by business
These are not the same workload. Sized at the small band, here is what each one actually needs.
| Business | Build | Tier | What decides it |
|---|---|---|---|
| IT Services | 1 vCPU · 8 GB · 80 GB | VPS | An MSP runs its tooling for other people's networks, so the box matters most when everyone's systems break at... |
| Software Development | 1 vCPU · 8 GB · 150 GB | VPS | Build agents are the spike: idle most of the day, then every core saturated the moment a branch merges. |
| AI & Machine Learning | 2 vCPU · 32 GB · 450 GB | VDS | Training saturates hardware for hours at a time and inference wants it available instantly — two opposite dema... |
| DevOps | 1 vCPU · 8 GB · 300 GB | VPS | Observability is the quiet capacity problem here: logs and metrics grow whether or not the product does. |
| Business Applications, ERP & CRM | 2 vCPU · 24 GB · 150 GB | VDS | A business-wide system is judged on how fast a report runs at month end, which is a memory question long befor... |
| Cybersecurity | 2 vCPU · 24 GB · 450 GB | VDS | Retention is the constraint: keeping a year of logs searchable is a storage and indexing problem that never st... |
| Data & Analytics | 4 vCPU · 48 GB · 450 GB | VDS | Warehouse queries scan far more data than they return, so memory bandwidth decides whether a dashboard loads i... |
| API Platforms | 1 vCPU · 8 GB · 80 GB | VPS | An API is measured in requests per second rather than page views, and the failure mode is a noisy client rathe... |
| Mobile App Development | 1 vCPU · 8 GB · 80 GB | VPS | A push campaign is the load test you did not schedule: a million devices wake and call home inside a minute. |
| Blockchain | 2 vCPU · 32 GB · 800 GB | VDS | A node syncs the entire chain and then never stops growing, so disk is the planning constraint rather than CPU... |
Where your server runs
All 24 locations cost the same, so pick whichever sits closest to the people who will actually use the server.
Shaw is closest to New York. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Shaw ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| New York, United States | 203 miles | 5–10 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 350 miles | 8–17 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 543 miles | 13–26 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 594 miles | 14–29 ms |
| Miami, United States | 927 miles | 22–45 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,183 miles | 29–57 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 2,295 miles | 55–111 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 2,322 miles | 56–112 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 2,419 miles | 58–117 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 3,664 miles | 88–177 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 3,782 miles | 91–183 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 3,845 miles | 93–186 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 4,057 miles | 98–196 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 4,122 miles | 100–199 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 4,219 miles | 102–204 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 4,956 miles | 120–239 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 5,866 miles | 142–283 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 6,777 miles | 164–327 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 7,493 miles | 181–362 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 7,982 miles | 193–385 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 8,085 miles | 195–390 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 8,145 miles | 197–393 ms |
| Singapore | 9,654 miles | 233–466 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 9,763 miles | 236–471 ms |
Distances are from Shaw. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Technology Companies in Shaw
Technology & Software is one of the sectors Shaw is known for, so this is a workload we are asked about here more than most.
The closest of our 24 data centres to Shaw is New York, about 203 miles away. Choosing the closest data centre is the cheapest performance improvement available, and it costs nothing extra.
Shaw has a population of about 17,639, which is why the small build above is the one most likely to fit a Technology & Software business here — though the other two are a click away if it does not. Local time is America/New York, 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 Shaw
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Shaw | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| New Yorkamericas | 203 miles | 5–10 ms |
| Torontoamericas | 350 miles | 8–17 ms |
| Atlantaamericas | 543 miles | 13–26 ms |
Shaw sits in Washington, D.C., 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 small size assumed above, that is roughly 40,000 requests a day crossing that link.
Technology Companies hosting in Shaw — FAQs
What size server does a Technology & Software business in Shaw, DC need?
Where would the server for my Shaw, DC business actually run?
Is a VPS enough for Technology Companies, or do we need a dedicated server?
Can you host application servers for us?
Can we start smaller and grow?
Other industries in Shaw
Same city, different workload.
Technology Companies hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.