Surprise, United States
Server infrastructure for TV Production in Surprise
The right server for TV Production is decided by the work it has to do, not by the size of the plan you happen to land on. For a medium TV Production business in Surprise 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 Surprise. 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.
Surprise is closest to Los Angeles. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Surprise ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Los Angeles, United States | 340 miles | 8–16 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 599 miles | 14–29 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 899 miles | 22–43 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 1,097 miles | 26–53 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 1,458 miles | 35–70 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 1,602 miles | 39–77 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 1,893 miles | 46–91 ms |
| Miami, United States | 1,995 miles | 48–96 ms |
| New York, United States | 2,148 miles | 52–104 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 5,269 miles | 127–254 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 5,397 miles | 130–261 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 5,417 miles | 131–262 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 5,596 miles | 135–270 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 5,623 miles | 136–271 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 5,864 miles | 142–283 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 6,445 miles | 156–311 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 7,417 miles | 179–358 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 5,767 miles | 139–278 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 7,507 miles | 181–362 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 7,789 miles | 188–376 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 8,095 miles | 195–391 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 8,322 miles | 201–402 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 8,779 miles | 212–424 ms |
| Singapore | 9,067 miles | 219–438 ms |
Distances are from Surprise. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
TV Production in Surprise
The closest of our 24 data centres to Surprise is Los Angeles, about 340 miles away. Every kilometre between your users and the server is latency you cannot optimise away in software.
Surprise has a population of about 143,148, 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/Phoenix, 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 Surprise
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Surprise | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Los Angelesamericas | 340 miles | 8–16 ms |
| Santa Claraamericas | 599 miles | 14–29 ms |
| Dallasamericas | 899 miles | 22–43 ms |
Surprise sits in Arizona, 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 Surprise — FAQs
What size server does a TV Production business in Surprise, AZ need?
Where would the server for my Surprise, AZ 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 Surprise
Same city, different workload.
TV Production hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.