Charlotte, United States
Server infrastructure for Video & Creative Production in Charlotte
What Video & Creative Production actually need from a server is predictable performance under load, and enough headroom to grow into. For a large Video & Creative Production business in Charlotte that is about 4 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 Charlotte. 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
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 Most likely here
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 500,000 visits a month and roughly 800,000 requests a day, storage grows by roughly 1,200 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.
- 27.8 req/sec at peak
- 24 GB working set
- 1,200 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.
Charlotte is closest to Atlanta. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Charlotte ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Atlanta, United States | 226 miles | 5–11 ms |
| New York, United States | 531 miles | 13–26 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 587 miles | 14–28 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 587 miles | 14–28 ms |
| Miami, United States | 655 miles | 16–32 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 928 miles | 22–45 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 2,115 miles | 51–102 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 2,276 miles | 55–110 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 2,281 miles | 55–110 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 3,991 miles | 96–193 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 4,089 miles | 99–197 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 4,174 miles | 101–202 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 4,384 miles | 106–212 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 4,452 miles | 107–215 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 4,542 miles | 110–219 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 5,284 miles | 128–255 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 6,190 miles | 149–299 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 6,888 miles | 166–333 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 7,808 miles | 188–377 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 8,308 miles | 201–401 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 8,341 miles | 201–403 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 8,381 miles | 202–405 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 9,508 miles | 230–459 ms |
| Singapore | 9,892 miles | 239–478 ms |
Distances are from Charlotte. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Video & Creative Production in Charlotte
We work with businesses across Uptown, South End, NoDa, Ballantyne and Plaza Midwood. Charlotte is a booming finance and growth hub where polished, fast sites build trust.
The closest of our 24 data centres to Charlotte is Atlanta, about 226 miles away. Choosing the closest data centre is the cheapest performance improvement available, and it costs nothing extra.
Charlotte has a population of about 911,311, which is why the large 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 Charlotte
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Charlotte | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Atlantaamericas | 226 miles | 5–11 ms |
| New Yorkamericas | 531 miles | 13–26 ms |
| Torontoamericas | 587 miles | 14–28 ms |
Charlotte sits in North Carolina, 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 800,000 requests a day crossing that link.
Video & Creative Production hosting in Charlotte — FAQs
What size server does a Video & Creative Production business in Charlotte, NC need?
Where would the server for my Charlotte, NC 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 Charlotte
Same city, different workload.
Video & Creative Production hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.