Cardiff, United Kingdom
Server infrastructure for Travel & Tourism Businesses in Cardiff
There is no single correct server for Travel & Tourism Businesses; there is a correct one for the workload, the volume and the budget. For a large Travel & Tourism business in Cardiff that is about 4 Cores, 24 GB of memory and 250 GB of storage on VDS.
- ✓ 5 infrastructure tiers
- ✓ Sized for your workload, not a plan name
- ✓ Same price in all 24 locations
Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Cardiff. 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 Travel & Tourism
1–10 people · ~5,000 visits a month
On request
Shared Hosting
- Single Core
- 4 GB RAM
- 40 GB storage
About 0.5 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 1.4 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Medium Travel & Tourism
11–50 people · ~50,000 visits a month
$97.40 USD USD
per month · VPS
- Single Core
- 8 GB RAM
- 80 GB storage
- Managed
About 5.4 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 4 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Large Travel & Tourism Most likely here
51+ people · ~500,000 visits a month
$296.05 USD USD
per month · VDS
- 4 Cores
- 24 GB RAM
- 250 GB storage
- Managed
About 54.0 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 16 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 Travel & Tourism Businesses
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 | Workable | Workable for a single small property or practice, though a shared database is the first thing to strain when bookings cluster. |
| VPS Flexible virtual infrastructure with full root access | Recommended | A VPS handles a booking engine and its database comfortably, with predictable performance when enquiries spike. |
| VDS Virtual server with resources pinned to you alone | Recommended | Pinned resources matter here: a reservation that times out at the payment step is a booking you never see. |
| Dedicated Server An entire physical server, configured to your specification | Workable | Right once you are running several properties, or a property management system alongside the public site. |
| Bare Metal Physical compute for sustained, demanding workloads | Not this one | Reservation workloads are database-bound rather than compute-bound, so the extra physical capacity goes unused. |
Travel & Tourism Businesses workloads you can host
- Booking platform
- Itinerary management
- Payment processing
- Supplier integrations
- Customer accounts
Travel & Tourism in Cardiff, business by business
These are not the same workload. Sized at the large band, here is what each one actually needs.
| Business | Build | Tier | What decides it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Travel Agencies | 4 vCPU · 48 GB · 300 GB | VDS | One trip is a dozen bookings with different suppliers that all have to stay in step. |
| Tour Operators | 4 vCPU · 24 GB · 250 GB | VDS | Capacity is per departure rather than per day, and a cancelled guide reshuffles everything downstream. |
| Online Travel Agencies | 16 vCPU · 196 GB · 700 GB | Dedicated Server | Every search fans out to many supplier APIs, so caching is the difference between a fast site and an expensive... |
| Ticketing Companies | 24 vCPU · 48 GB · 250 GB | Dedicated Server | An on-sale is the most brutal traffic pattern in commerce: months of demand arriving in ninety seconds. |
| Car Rental Companies | 4 vCPU · 48 GB · 300 GB | VDS | Availability depends on where the car will be, not where it is — the calendar has to model vehicles moving bet... |
| Adventure Tourism | 4 vCPU · 24 GB · 250 GB | VDS | Weather rewrites the schedule at short notice, so bulk rebooking is a normal operation rather than an exceptio... |
| Cruise Operators | 6 vCPU · 96 GB · 450 GB | Dedicated Server | The manifest is a regulated document with a hard sailing deadline, and excursions sell out like a small ticket... |
| Airport Services | 4 vCPU · 24 GB · 250 GB | VDS | Everything keys off live flight data, so the system is only as current as the feed it is consuming. |
Where your server runs
All 24 locations cost the same, so pick whichever sits closest to the people who will actually use the server.
Cardiff is closest to London. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Cardiff ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 131 miles | 3–6 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 350 miles | 8–17 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 526 miles | 13–25 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 701 miles | 17–34 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 765 miles | 18–37 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 988 miles | 24–48 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 1,428 miles | 34–69 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 2,331 miles | 56–113 ms |
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| New York, United States | 3,336 miles | 81–161 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 3,430 miles | 83–166 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 3,831 miles | 92–185 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 4,082 miles | 99–197 ms |
| Miami, United States | 4,299 miles | 104–208 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 4,630 miles | 112–224 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 4,704 miles | 114–227 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 5,274 miles | 127–255 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 5,342 miles | 129–258 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Delhi NCR, India | 4,311 miles | 104–208 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 4,600 miles | 111–222 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 5,075 miles | 123–245 ms |
| Tokyo, Japan | 6,008 miles | 145–290 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 6,090 miles | 147–294 ms |
| Singapore | 6,869 miles | 166–332 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 10,673 miles | 258–515 ms |
Distances are from Cardiff. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Travel & Tourism Businesses in Cardiff
We work with businesses across the City Centre, Cardiff Bay, Cathays, Pontcanna and Roath. Cardiff is Wales’ capital and largest market, where local SEO drives enquiries.
The closest of our 24 data centres to Cardiff is London, about 131 miles away. Round-trip time is set by physical distance more than by anything else, so the nearest site is usually the right one.
Cardiff has a population of about 372,089, which is why the large build above is the one most likely to fit a Travel & Tourism business here — though the other two are a click away if it does not. Local time is Europe/London, 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 the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018. Pricing is quoted in GBP, and the figure is the same wherever the machine physically sits.
Network reach from Cardiff
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Cardiff | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Londonemea | 131 miles | 3–6 ms |
| Amsterdamemea | 350 miles | 8–17 ms |
| Frankfurtemea | 526 miles | 13–25 ms |
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 1,166,667 requests a day crossing that link.
Travel & Tourism Businesses hosting in Cardiff — FAQs
What size server does a Travel & Tourism business in Cardiff, Wales need?
Where would the server for my Cardiff, Wales business actually run?
Is a VPS enough for Travel & Tourism Businesses, or do we need a dedicated server?
Can you host booking platform for us?
Can we start smaller and grow?
Other industries in Cardiff
Same city, different workload.
Travel & Tourism Businesses hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.