Des Moines, United States
Server infrastructure for TV Production in Des Moines
There is no single correct server for TV Production; there is a correct one for the workload, the volume and the budget. For a medium TV Production business in Des Moines that is about 2 Cores, 32 GB of memory and 4000 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 Des Moines. 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 TV Production
1–10 people · ~5,000 visits a month
$518.60 USD USD
per month · VPS
- Single Core
- 12 GB RAM
- 3000 GB storage
About 0.3 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 8.4 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Medium TV Production Most likely here
11–50 people · ~50,000 visits a month
$840.10 USD USD
per month · VDS
- 2 Cores
- 32 GB RAM
- 4000 GB storage
- Managed
About 2.8 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 24 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Large TV Production
51+ people · ~500,000 visits a month
$1,546.15 USD USD
per month · Dedicated Server
- 8 Cores
- 128 GB RAM
- 4000 GB storage
- Managed
About 27.8 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 96 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 TV Production size up this way
Working from about 50,000 visits a month and roughly 80,000 requests a day, storage grows by roughly 600 GB a month at this size, which usually decides the build before CPU does.
- 2.8 req/sec at peak
- 24 GB working set
- 600 GB/month growth
- Linux
Which tiers suit TV Production
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 plans cap disk long before a video or photo library needs them to, and cannot sustain the read throughput. |
| VPS Flexible virtual infrastructure with full root access | Workable | Fine for a catalogue and a website; the library itself will outgrow the disk faster than the CPU. |
| VDS Virtual server with resources pinned to you alone | Recommended | Storage-weighted builds with guaranteed throughput, which is what serving large files consistently actually requires. |
| Dedicated Server An entire physical server, configured to your specification | Recommended | The right tier once the library runs to terabytes, or when transcoding runs alongside delivery. |
| Bare Metal Physical compute for sustained, demanding workloads | Recommended | For transcoding, rendering and archives at a scale where disk and CPU are both saturated for hours at a time. |
TV Production workloads you can host
Broadcast delivery has exact technical specifications, so the final render is a hard deadline with no flexibility.
- Multi-episode asset management
- Edit suite storage
- Compliance & clearance records
- Subtitling
- Delivery to broadcasters
Where your server runs
All 24 locations cost the same, so pick whichever sits closest to the people who will actually use the server.
Des Moines has a data centre of its own. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Des Moines ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Seattle, United States | Same city | 1–2 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 694 miles | 17–34 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 946 miles | 23–46 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,673 miles | 40–81 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 1,733 miles | 42–84 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 2,068 miles | 50–100 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 2,175 miles | 53–105 ms |
| New York, United States | 2,403 miles | 58–116 ms |
| Miami, United States | 2,727 miles | 66–132 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| Stockholm, Sweden | 4,730 miles | 114–228 ms |
| London, United Kingdom | 4,796 miles | 116–232 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 4,875 miles | 118–235 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 5,095 miles | 123–246 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 5,298 miles | 128–256 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 5,381 miles | 130–260 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 5,808 miles | 140–280 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 6,764 miles | 163–327 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 4,792 miles | 116–231 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 6,480 miles | 156–313 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 7,048 miles | 170–340 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 7,239 miles | 175–349 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 7,743 miles | 187–374 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 7,747 miles | 187–374 ms |
| Singapore | 8,073 miles | 195–390 ms |
Distances are from Des Moines. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
TV Production in Des Moines
The closest of our 24 data centres to Des Moines is Seattle, about 14 miles away. Round-trip time is set by physical distance more than by anything else, so the nearest site is usually the right one.
Des Moines has a population of about 31,221, which is why the medium build above is the one most likely to fit a TV Production business here — though the other two are a click away if it does not. Local time is America/Los Angeles, 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 Des Moines
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Des Moines | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Seattleamericas | In your metro | 1–2 ms |
| Santa Claraamericas | 694 miles | 17–34 ms |
| Los Angelesamericas | 946 miles | 23–46 ms |
Des Moines sits in Washington, 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 80,000 requests a day crossing that link.
TV Production hosting in Des Moines — FAQs
What size server does a TV Production business in Des Moines, WA need?
Where would the server for my Des Moines, WA business actually run?
Is a VPS enough for TV Production, or do we need a dedicated server?
Can you host multi-episode asset management for us?
Can we start smaller and grow?
Other industries in Des Moines
Same city, different workload.
TV Production hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.