Redwood City, United States
Server infrastructure for Video & Creative Production in Redwood City
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 medium Video & Creative Production business in Redwood City that is about Single Core, 10 GB of memory and 4000 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 Redwood 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
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 Most likely here
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 50,000 visits a month and roughly 80,000 requests a day, storage grows by roughly 300 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.
- 2.8 req/sec at peak
- 6 GB working set
- 300 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.
Redwood City has a data centre of its own. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Redwood City ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Santa Clara, United States | Same city | 1–2 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 326 miles | 8–16 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 699 miles | 17–34 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,469 miles | 35–71 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 1,852 miles | 45–89 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 2,127 miles | 51–103 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 2,263 miles | 55–109 ms |
| New York, United States | 2,563 miles | 62–124 ms |
| Miami, United States | 2,579 miles | 62–125 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 5,161 miles | 125–249 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 6,915 miles | 167–334 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 7,423 miles | 179–358 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 7,701 miles | 186–372 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 7,835 miles | 189–378 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 8,407 miles | 203–406 ms |
| Singapore | 8,459 miles | 204–408 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 5,365 miles | 130–259 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 5,373 miles | 130–259 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 5,464 miles | 132–264 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 5,688 miles | 137–275 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 5,798 miles | 140–280 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 5,959 miles | 144–288 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 6,442 miles | 156–311 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 7,407 miles | 179–358 ms |
Distances are from Redwood City. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Video & Creative Production in Redwood City
The closest of our 24 data centres to Redwood City is Santa Clara, about 18 miles away. The price is the same in all 24 locations, so distance is the only variable worth optimising.
Redwood City has a population of about 85,288, which is why the medium 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/Los Angeles, 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 Redwood City
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Redwood City | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Santa Claraamericas | In your metro | 1–2 ms |
| Los Angelesamericas | 326 miles | 8–16 ms |
| Seattleamericas | 699 miles | 17–34 ms |
Redwood City sits in California, 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.
Video & Creative Production hosting in Redwood City — FAQs
What size server does a Video & Creative Production business in Redwood City, CA need?
Where would the server for my Redwood City, CA 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 Redwood City
Same city, different workload.
Video & Creative Production hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.