Amsterdam, United States
Server infrastructure for Video & Creative Production in Amsterdam
There is no single correct server for Video & Creative Production; there is a correct one for the workload, the volume and the budget. For a small Video & Creative Production business in Amsterdam that is about Single Core, 6 GB of memory and 1500 GB of storage on VPS.
- ✓ 5 infrastructure tiers
- ✓ Sized for your workload, not a plan name
- ✓ Same price in all 24 locations
Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Amsterdam. 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 Video & Creative Production Most likely here
1–10 people · ~5,000 visits a month
$267.50 USD USD
per month · VPS
- Single Core
- 6 GB RAM
- 1500 GB storage
About 0.3 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 2.1 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Medium Video & Creative Production
11–50 people · ~50,000 visits a month
$637.40 USD USD
per month · VPS
- Single Core
- 10 GB RAM
- 4000 GB storage
- Managed
About 2.8 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 6 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Large Video & Creative Production
51+ people · ~500,000 visits a month
$873.85 USD USD
per month · VDS
- 4 Cores
- 32 GB RAM
- 4000 GB storage
- Managed
About 27.8 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 24 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 Video & Creative Production size up this way
Working from about 5,000 visits a month and roughly 8,000 requests a day, storage grows by roughly 105 GB a month at this size, which usually decides the build before CPU does; and each request costs real computation rather than a cache lookup, so cores matter more here than on a typical site.
- 0.3 req/sec at peak
- 2.1 GB working set
- 105 GB/month growth
- Linux
Which tiers suit Video & Creative 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. |
Video & Creative Production workloads you can host
Proxy generation is the unglamorous CPU cost of making footage editable at all.
- Project media storage
- Proxy generation
- Client review & approval
- Render output
- Final delivery
Where your server runs
All 24 locations cost the same, so pick whichever sits closest to the people who will actually use the server.
Amsterdam is closest to New York. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Amsterdam ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| New York, United States | 154 miles | 4–7 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 266 miles | 6–13 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 689 miles | 17–33 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 841 miles | 20–41 ms |
| Miami, United States | 1,234 miles | 30–60 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,413 miles | 34–68 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 2,325 miles | 56–112 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 2,431 miles | 59–117 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 2,518 miles | 61–122 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 3,374 miles | 81–163 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 3,531 miles | 85–170 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 3,550 miles | 86–171 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 3,764 miles | 91–182 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 3,812 miles | 92–184 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 3,938 miles | 95–190 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 4,661 miles | 113–225 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 5,581 miles | 135–269 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 6,602 miles | 159–319 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 7,179 miles | 173–347 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 7,668 miles | 185–370 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 7,776 miles | 188–375 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 7,897 miles | 191–381 ms |
| Singapore | 9,374 miles | 226–453 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 9,932 miles | 240–480 ms |
Distances are from Amsterdam. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Video & Creative Production in Amsterdam
The closest of our 24 data centres to Amsterdam is New York, about 154 miles away. Every kilometre between your users and the server is latency you cannot optimise away in software.
Amsterdam has a population of about 18,008, which is why the small build above is the one most likely to fit a Video & Creative Production business here — though the other two are a click away if it does not. Local time is America/New York, 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 Amsterdam
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Amsterdam | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| New Yorkamericas | 154 miles | 4–7 ms |
| Torontoamericas | 266 miles | 6–13 ms |
| Chicagoamericas | 689 miles | 17–33 ms |
Amsterdam sits in New York, 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 small size assumed above, that is roughly 8,000 requests a day crossing that link.
Video & Creative Production hosting in Amsterdam — FAQs
What size server does a Video & Creative Production business in Amsterdam, NY need?
Where would the server for my Amsterdam, NY business actually run?
Is a VPS enough for Video & Creative Production, or do we need a dedicated server?
Can you host project media storage for us?
Can we start smaller and grow?
Other industries in Amsterdam
Same city, different workload.
Video & Creative Production hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.