North Lakes, Australia
Server infrastructure for Web Agencies in North Lakes
What Web Agencies actually need from a server is predictable performance under load, and enough headroom to grow into. For a small Web Agencies business in North Lakes that is about Single Core, 6 GB of memory and 30 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 North Lakes. 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 Web Agencies Most likely here
1–10 people · ~5,000 visits a month
$75.80 USD USD
per month · VPS
- Single Core
- 6 GB RAM
- 30 GB storage
About 0.1 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 2.1 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Medium Web Agencies
11–50 people · ~50,000 visits a month
$110.90 USD USD
per month · VPS
- Single Core
- 10 GB RAM
- 50 GB storage
- Managed
About 1.5 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 6 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Large Web Agencies
51+ people · ~500,000 visits a month
$323.05 USD USD
per month · VDS
- 2 Cores
- 32 GB RAM
- 150 GB storage
- Managed
About 14.5 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.
Which tiers suit Web Agencies
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 | Recommended | A brochure site with light traffic runs comfortably on shared hosting, and the managed platform means no server to look after. |
| VPS Flexible virtual infrastructure with full root access | Recommended | A VPS gives you root, your own PHP and Nginx versions, and room for the site to grow past what shared hosting allows. |
| VDS Virtual server with resources pinned to you alone | Workable | Worth moving to once the site fronts an application rather than pages, or when a slow neighbour has cost you a lead. |
| Dedicated Server An entire physical server, configured to your specification | Workable | More machine than a brochure site needs, but the right answer when it sits alongside other systems on the same box. |
| Bare Metal Physical compute for sustained, demanding workloads | Not this one | Bare metal is sized for sustained heavy compute; a brochure site would leave almost all of it idle. |
Web Agencies workloads you can host
Many small sites on one machine: the risk is not load but one client's bad plugin taking the others down with it.
- Client websites
- Staging & preview sites
- Version control
- Asset pipelines
- Uptime monitoring
Where your server runs
All 24 locations cost the same, so pick whichever sits closest to the people who will actually use the server.
North Lakes is closest to Sydney. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from North Lakes ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Sydney, Australia | 472 miles | 11–23 ms |
| Singapore | 3,817 miles | 92–184 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 4,295 miles | 104–207 ms |
| Tokyo, Japan | 4,433 miles | 107–214 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 5,519 miles | 133–266 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 6,241 miles | 151–301 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 6,316 miles | 152–305 ms |
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Santa Clara, United States | 7,081 miles | 171–342 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 7,177 miles | 173–347 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 7,350 miles | 177–355 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 8,317 miles | 201–402 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 8,916 miles | 215–430 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 9,032 miles | 218–436 ms |
| Miami, United States | 9,170 miles | 221–443 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 9,334 miles | 225–451 ms |
| New York, United States | 9,623 miles | 232–465 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 8,763 miles | 212–423 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 9,297 miles | 224–449 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 9,366 miles | 226–452 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 9,986 miles | 241–482 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 10,048 miles | 243–485 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 10,091 miles | 244–487 ms |
| London, United Kingdom | 10,254 miles | 248–495 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 10,828 miles | 261–523 ms |
Distances are from North Lakes. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Web Agencies in North Lakes
The closest of our 24 data centres to North Lakes is Sydney, about 472 miles away. Round-trip time is set by physical distance more than by anything else, so the nearest site is usually the right one.
North Lakes has a population of about 21,260, which is why the small build above is the one most likely to fit a Web Agencies business here — though the other two are a click away if it does not. Local time is Australia/Brisbane, 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 Privacy Act 1988. Pricing is quoted in AUD, and the figure is the same wherever the machine physically sits.
Network reach from North Lakes
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from North Lakes | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Sydneyapac | 472 miles | 11–23 ms |
| Singaporeapac | 3,817 miles | 92–184 ms |
| Hong Kongapac | 4,295 miles | 104–207 ms |
North Lakes sits in Queensland, 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 4,167 requests a day crossing that link.
Web Agencies hosting in North Lakes — FAQs
What size server does a Web Agencies business in North Lakes, QLD need?
Where would the server for my North Lakes, QLD business actually run?
Is a VPS enough for Web Agencies, or do we need a dedicated server?
Can you host client websites for us?
Can we start smaller and grow?
Other industries in North Lakes
Same city, different workload.
Web Agencies hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.