San Rafael, United States
Server infrastructure for Web Development Agencies in San Rafael
Infrastructure for Web Development Agencies is a question of matching the machine to the application, then putting it near the people using it. For a medium Web Development business in San Rafael that is about Single Core, 3 GB of memory and 30 GB of storage on Shared Hosting.
- ✓ 5 infrastructure tiers
- ✓ Sized for your workload, not a plan name
- ✓ Same price in all 24 locations
Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from San Rafael. 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 Most likely here
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
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 San Rafael, business by business
These are not the same workload. Sized at the medium band, here is what each one actually needs.
| Business | Build | Tier | What decides it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Web Agencies | 1 vCPU · 10 GB · 50 GB | VPS | Many small sites on one machine: the risk is not load but one client's bad plugin taking the others down with... |
| WordPress Development | 1 vCPU · 3 GB · 30 GB | Shared Hosting | 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 · 3 GB · 30 GB | Shared Hosting | Rebuilds are the spike: an editor saves a page and the whole site regenerates. |
| Hosting Resellers | 1 vCPU · 12 GB · 50 GB | VPS | Reselling means somebody else's traffic on your machine, so headroom is the product rather than an optimisatio... |
| Freelance Developers | 1 vCPU · 6 GB · 40 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.
San Rafael is closest to Santa Clara. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from San Rafael ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Santa Clara, United States | 53 miles | 1–3 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 362 miles | 9–17 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 666 miles | 16–32 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,488 miles | 36–72 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 1,856 miles | 45–90 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 2,141 miles | 52–103 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 2,264 miles | 55–109 ms |
| New York, United States | 2,567 miles | 62–124 ms |
| Miami, United States | 2,599 miles | 63–125 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 5,129 miles | 124–248 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 6,881 miles | 166–332 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 7,425 miles | 179–359 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 7,664 miles | 185–370 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 7,798 miles | 188–376 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 8,370 miles | 202–404 ms |
| Singapore | 8,427 miles | 203–407 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 5,346 miles | 129–258 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 5,346 miles | 129–258 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 5,443 miles | 131–263 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 5,666 miles | 137–274 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 5,784 miles | 140–279 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 5,938 miles | 143–287 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 6,416 miles | 155–310 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 7,381 miles | 178–356 ms |
Distances are from San Rafael. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Web Development Agencies in San Rafael
The closest of our 24 data centres to San Rafael is Santa Clara, about 53 miles away. Round-trip time is set by physical distance more than by anything else, so the nearest site is usually the right one.
San Rafael has a population of about 59,162, which is why the medium 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/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 San Rafael
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from San Rafael | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Santa Claraamericas | 53 miles | 1–3 ms |
| Los Angelesamericas | 362 miles | 9–17 ms |
| Seattleamericas | 666 miles | 16–32 ms |
San Rafael 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 41,667 requests a day crossing that link.
Web Development Agencies hosting in San Rafael — FAQs
What size server does a Web Development business in San Rafael, CA need?
Where would the server for my San Rafael, CA 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 San Rafael
Same city, different workload.
Web Development Agencies hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.