Dubai Internet City, United Arab Emirates
Server infrastructure for Video & Creative Production in Dubai Internet City
The right server for Video & Creative Production is decided by the work it has to do, not by the size of the plan you happen to land on. For a small Video & Creative Production business in Dubai Internet City 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 Dubai Internet City. 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.
Dubai Internet City is closest to Mumbai. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Dubai Internet City ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Mumbai, India | 1,207 miles | 29–58 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 1,389 miles | 34–67 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 2,100 miles | 51–101 ms |
| Singapore | 3,631 miles | 88–175 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 3,708 miles | 90–179 ms |
| Tokyo, Japan | 4,937 miles | 119–238 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 7,489 miles | 181–362 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 1,325 miles | 32–64 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 2,103 miles | 51–102 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 2,898 miles | 70–140 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 2,960 miles | 71–143 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 3,006 miles | 73–145 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 3,207 miles | 77–155 ms |
| London, United Kingdom | 3,402 miles | 82–164 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 3,513 miles | 85–170 ms |
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| New York, United States | 6,842 miles | 165–330 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 6,882 miles | 166–332 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 7,235 miles | 175–349 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 7,411 miles | 179–358 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 7,581 miles | 183–366 ms |
| Miami, United States | 7,830 miles | 189–378 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 8,033 miles | 194–388 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 8,118 miles | 196–392 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 8,327 miles | 201–402 ms |
Distances are from Dubai Internet City. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Video & Creative Production in Dubai Internet City
The closest of our 24 data centres to Dubai Internet City is Mumbai, about 1,207 miles away. Round-trip time is set by physical distance more than by anything else, so the nearest site is usually the right one.
Dubai Internet City has a population of about 24,000, 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 Asia/Dubai, 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 the UAE Personal Data Protection Law. Pricing is quoted in AED, and the figure is the same wherever the machine physically sits.
Network reach from Dubai Internet City
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Dubai Internet City | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Mumbaiapac | 1,207 miles | 29–58 ms |
| Tel Avivemea | 1,325 miles | 32–64 ms |
| Delhi NCRapac | 1,389 miles | 34–67 ms |
Dubai Internet City sits in Dubai, 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 Dubai Internet City — FAQs
What size server does a Video & Creative Production business in Dubai Internet City, Dubai need?
Where would the server for my Dubai Internet City, Dubai 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 Dubai Internet City
Same city, different workload.
Video & Creative Production hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.