Houston, United States
Server infrastructure for Web Development Agencies in Houston
There is no single correct server for Web Development Agencies; there is a correct one for the workload, the volume and the budget. For a large Web Development business in Houston that is about Single Core, 6 GB of memory and 50 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 Houston. 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 Development
1–10 people · ~5,000 visits a month
On request
Shared Hosting
- Single Core
- 3 GB RAM
- 30 GB storage
About 0.1 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 0.2 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Medium Web Development
11–50 people · ~50,000 visits a month
On request
Shared Hosting
- Single Core
- 3 GB RAM
- 30 GB storage
- Managed
The same build as small — at 1.5 requests a second this workload still fits comfortably, so there is nothing to gain by paying for more.
Configure this build →Large Web Development Most likely here
51+ people · ~500,000 visits a month
$78.50 USD USD
per month · VPS
- Single Core
- 6 GB RAM
- 50 GB storage
- Managed
About 14.5 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 2 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 Development 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 Development Agencies workloads you can host
- Client websites
- Staging & preview sites
- Version control
- Asset pipelines
- Reseller hosting
Web Development in Houston, business by business
These are not the same workload. Sized at the large band, here is what each one actually needs.
| Business | Build | Tier | What decides it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Web Agencies | 2 vCPU · 32 GB · 150 GB | VDS | Many small sites on one machine: the risk is not load but one client's bad plugin taking the others down with... |
| WordPress Development | 2 vCPU · 6 GB · 50 GB | VPS | WordPress is cheap to serve cached and expensive to serve uncached, so the object cache is doing most of the w... |
| Headless CMS | 1 vCPU · 6 GB · 50 GB | VPS | Rebuilds are the spike: an editor saves a page and the whole site regenerates. |
| Hosting Resellers | 4 vCPU · 48 GB · 150 GB | VDS | Reselling means somebody else's traffic on your machine, so headroom is the product rather than an optimisatio... |
| Freelance Developers | 1 vCPU · 12 GB · 80 GB | VPS | Small, predictable and mostly idle — the machine is a workspace rather than a production platform. |
Where your server runs
All 24 locations cost the same, so pick whichever sits closest to the people who will actually use the server.
Houston is closest to Dallas. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Houston ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Dallas, United States | 225 miles | 5–11 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 701 miles | 17–34 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 942 miles | 23–45 ms |
| Miami, United States | 967 miles | 23–47 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 1,301 miles | 31–63 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 1,371 miles | 33–66 ms |
| New York, United States | 1,417 miles | 34–68 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 1,612 miles | 39–78 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 1,889 miles | 46–91 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 4,848 miles | 117–234 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 5,001 miles | 121–241 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 5,018 miles | 121–242 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 5,214 miles | 126–252 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 5,235 miles | 126–253 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 5,418 miles | 131–262 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 6,124 miles | 148–296 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 7,058 miles | 170–341 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 6,674 miles | 161–322 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 8,338 miles | 201–403 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 8,380 miles | 202–405 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 8,587 miles | 207–415 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 8,812 miles | 213–425 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 8,973 miles | 217–433 ms |
| Singapore | 9,942 miles | 240–480 ms |
Distances are from Houston. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Web Development Agencies in Houston
We work with businesses across Downtown, the Heights, the Galleria, Midtown and Katy. Houston is vast and fast-growing, so mobile speed and clear service-area pages matter.
The closest of our 24 data centres to Houston is Dallas, about 225 miles away. Choosing the closest data centre is the cheapest performance improvement available, and it costs nothing extra.
Houston has a population of about 2,314,157, which is why the large build above is the one most likely to fit a Web Development business here — though the other two are a click away if it does not. Local time is America/Chicago, 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 Houston
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Houston | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Dallasamericas | 225 miles | 5–11 ms |
| Atlantaamericas | 701 miles | 17–34 ms |
| Chicagoamericas | 942 miles | 23–45 ms |
Houston sits in Texas, 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 Development Agencies hosting in Houston — FAQs
What size server does a Web Development business in Houston, TX need?
Where would the server for my Houston, TX business actually run?
Is a VPS enough for Web Development Agencies, or do we need a dedicated server?
Can you host client websites for us?
Can we start smaller and grow?
Other industries in Houston
Same city, different workload.
Web Development Agencies hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.