Saint John, Canada
Server infrastructure for VFX Studios in Saint John
Sizing infrastructure for VFX Studios starts with the workload, then works back to cores, memory and disk. For a medium VFX Studios business in Saint John that is about 8 Cores, 128 GB of memory and 4000 GB of storage on Dedicated Server.
- ✓ 5 infrastructure tiers
- ✓ Sized for your workload, not a plan name
- ✓ Same price in all 24 locations
Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Saint John. 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 VFX Studios
1–10 people · ~5,000 visits a month
$803.65 USD USD
per month · VDS
- 4 Cores
- 48 GB RAM
- 3000 GB storage
- GPU on request
About 0.1 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 33.6 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Medium VFX Studios Most likely here
11–50 people · ~50,000 visits a month
$1,546.15 USD USD
per month · Dedicated Server
- 8 Cores
- 128 GB RAM
- 4000 GB storage
- Managed
- GPU on request
About 0.5 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 96 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Large VFX Studios
51+ people · ~500,000 visits a month
$4,063.90 USD USD
per month · Bare Metal
- 28 Cores
- 448 GB RAM
- 4000 GB storage
- Managed
- GPU on request
About 4.6 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 384 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 VFX Studios size up this way
Working from about 50,000 visits a month and roughly 26,667 requests a day, storage grows by roughly 600 GB a month at this size, which usually decides the build before CPU does; about 96 GB of data needs to stay in memory to keep queries fast; each request costs real computation rather than a cache lookup, so cores matter more here than on a typical site; and a GPU is genuinely used rather than optional, and is quoted separately.
- 0.5 req/sec at peak
- 96 GB working set
- 600 GB/month growth
- Linux
Which tiers suit VFX Studios
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 | There is no version of this workload that fits on shared hosting. |
| VPS Flexible virtual infrastructure with full root access | Workable | Useful for development, notebooks and light inference, but not for training or sustained compute. |
| VDS Virtual server with resources pinned to you alone | Workable | Suits CPU-bound preprocessing and data preparation with a guaranteed share of the machine. |
| Dedicated Server An entire physical server, configured to your specification | Recommended | Production compute wants the whole machine, with memory bandwidth that is not being shared. |
| Bare Metal Physical compute for sustained, demanding workloads | Recommended | Training, inference and simulation belong on physical hardware, with GPUs available on request. |
VFX Studios workloads you can host
Simulation and rendering saturate hardware for hours, and the plates they work from are enormous.
- Compositing & simulation
- Render queue management
- Plate storage
- Client review portal
- Colour pipeline
Where your server runs
All 24 locations cost the same, so pick whichever sits closest to the people who will actually use the server.
Saint John is closest to New York. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Saint John ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| New York, United States | 510 miles | 12–25 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 666 miles | 16–32 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 1,101 miles | 27–53 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 1,255 miles | 30–61 ms |
| Miami, United States | 1,560 miles | 38–75 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,847 miles | 45–89 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 2,625 miles | 63–127 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 2,829 miles | 68–137 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 2,893 miles | 70–140 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 2,951 miles | 71–142 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 3,097 miles | 75–150 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 3,133 miles | 76–151 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 3,344 miles | 81–161 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 3,429 miles | 83–166 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 3,510 miles | 85–169 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 4,244 miles | 102–205 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 5,156 miles | 124–249 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 6,618 miles | 160–320 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 6,844 miles | 165–330 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 7,298 miles | 176–352 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 7,481 miles | 181–361 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 7,767 miles | 187–375 ms |
| Singapore | 9,156 miles | 221–442 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 10,324 miles | 249–498 ms |
Distances are from Saint John. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
VFX Studios in Saint John
The closest of our 24 data centres to Saint John is New York, about 510 miles away. Every kilometre between your users and the server is latency you cannot optimise away in software.
Saint John has a population of about 71,808, which is why the medium build above is the one most likely to fit a VFX Studios business here — though the other two are a click away if it does not. Local time is America/Moncton, 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 Saint John
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Saint John | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| New Yorkamericas | 510 miles | 12–25 ms |
| Torontoamericas | 666 miles | 16–32 ms |
| Chicagoamericas | 1,101 miles | 27–53 ms |
Saint John sits in New Brunswick, 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 26,667 requests a day crossing that link.
VFX Studios hosting in Saint John — FAQs
What size server does a VFX Studios business in Saint John, NB need?
Where would the server for my Saint John, NB business actually run?
Is a VPS enough for VFX Studios, or do we need a dedicated server?
Can you host compositing & simulation for us?
Can we start smaller and grow?
Other industries in Saint John
Same city, different workload.
VFX Studios hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.