South Boston, United States
Server infrastructure for Web Agencies in South Boston
Most Web Agencies outgrow their first server in one specific place — and it is rarely the one the plan name suggests. For a large Web Agencies business in South Boston that is about 2 Cores, 32 GB of memory and 150 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 South Boston. 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
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 Most likely here
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.
South Boston is closest to New York. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from South Boston ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| New York, United States | 190 miles | 5–9 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 431 miles | 10–21 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 849 miles | 20–41 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 935 miles | 23–45 ms |
| Miami, United States | 1,257 miles | 30–61 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,549 miles | 37–75 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 2,487 miles | 60–120 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 2,591 miles | 63–125 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 2,682 miles | 65–129 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 3,272 miles | 79–158 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 3,399 miles | 82–164 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 3,454 miles | 83–167 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 3,665 miles | 88–177 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 3,744 miles | 90–181 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 3,827 miles | 92–185 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 4,565 miles | 110–220 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 5,474 miles | 132–264 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 6,709 miles | 162–324 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 7,144 miles | 172–345 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 7,611 miles | 184–367 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 7,764 miles | 187–375 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 7,957 miles | 192–384 ms |
| Singapore | 9,401 miles | 227–454 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 10,092 miles | 244–487 ms |
Distances are from South Boston. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Web Agencies in South Boston
The closest of our 24 data centres to South Boston is New York, about 190 miles away. Round-trip time is set by physical distance more than by anything else, so the nearest site is usually the right one.
South Boston has a population of about 571,281, which is why the large 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 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 South Boston
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from South Boston | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| New Yorkamericas | 190 miles | 5–9 ms |
| Torontoamericas | 431 miles | 10–21 ms |
| Chicagoamericas | 849 miles | 20–41 ms |
South Boston sits in Massachusetts, 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 416,667 requests a day crossing that link.
Web Agencies hosting in South Boston — FAQs
What size server does a Web Agencies business in South Boston, MA need?
Where would the server for my South Boston, MA 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 South Boston
Same city, different workload.
Web Agencies hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.