Vancouver, Canada
Server infrastructure for Travel & Tourism Businesses in Vancouver
What Travel & Tourism Businesses actually need from a server is predictable performance under load, and enough headroom to grow into. For a large Travel & Tourism business in Vancouver 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 Vancouver. 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 Vancouver, 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.
Vancouver is closest to Seattle. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Vancouver ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Seattle, United States | 119 miles | 3–6 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 824 miles | 20–40 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 1,079 miles | 26–52 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,767 miles | 43–85 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 1,772 miles | 43–86 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 2,087 miles | 50–101 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 2,239 miles | 54–108 ms |
| New York, United States | 2,426 miles | 59–117 ms |
| Miami, United States | 2,802 miles | 68–135 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| Stockholm, Sweden | 4,623 miles | 112–223 ms |
| London, United Kingdom | 4,711 miles | 114–227 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 4,784 miles | 115–231 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 5,003 miles | 121–242 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 5,230 miles | 126–253 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 5,292 miles | 128–256 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 5,703 miles | 138–275 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 6,655 miles | 161–321 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 4,696 miles | 113–227 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 6,371 miles | 154–308 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 6,916 miles | 167–334 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 7,110 miles | 172–343 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 7,615 miles | 184–368 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 7,767 miles | 187–375 ms |
| Singapore | 7,968 miles | 192–385 ms |
Distances are from Vancouver. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Travel & Tourism Businesses in Vancouver
We work with businesses across Downtown, Gastown, Yaletown, Kitsilano and Burnaby. Vancouver is design-conscious and mobile-first, with high expectations for site quality.
The closest of our 24 data centres to Vancouver is Seattle, about 119 miles away. Round-trip time is set by physical distance more than by anything else, so the nearest site is usually the right one.
Vancouver has a population of about 662,248, 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 America/Vancouver, 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 Vancouver
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Vancouver | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Seattleamericas | 119 miles | 3–6 ms |
| Santa Claraamericas | 824 miles | 20–40 ms |
| Los Angelesamericas | 1,079 miles | 26–52 ms |
Vancouver sits in British Columbia, 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 1,166,667 requests a day crossing that link.
Travel & Tourism Businesses hosting in Vancouver — FAQs
What size server does a Travel & Tourism business in Vancouver, BC need?
Where would the server for my Vancouver, BC 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 Vancouver
Same city, different workload.
Travel & Tourism Businesses hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.