California, United States
Server infrastructure for WordPress Development in California
The right server for WordPress Development is decided by the work it has to do, not by the size of the plan you happen to land on. For a small WordPress Development business in California 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 California. 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 WordPress Development Most likely here
1–10 people · ~5,000 visits a month
On request
Shared Hosting
- Single Core
- 3 GB RAM
- 30 GB storage
About 0.4 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 0.2 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Medium WordPress 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 3.5 requests a second this workload still fits comfortably, so there is nothing to gain by paying for more.
Configure this build →Large WordPress Development
51+ people · ~500,000 visits a month
$92 USD USD
per month · VPS
- 2 Cores
- 6 GB RAM
- 50 GB storage
- Managed
About 34.7 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 WordPress Development
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. |
WordPress Development workloads you can host
WordPress is cheap to serve cached and expensive to serve uncached, so the object cache is doing most of the work.
- WordPress multisite
- Object cache
- Media library
- Plugin & core updates
- Staging clones
Where your server runs
All 24 locations cost the same, so pick whichever sits closest to the people who will actually use the server.
California is closest to Los Angeles. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from California ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Los Angeles, United States | 111 miles | 3–5 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 200 miles | 5–10 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 857 miles | 21–41 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,296 miles | 31–63 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 1,754 miles | 42–85 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 1,978 miles | 48–95 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 2,178 miles | 53–105 ms |
| Miami, United States | 2,402 miles | 58–116 ms |
| New York, United States | 2,462 miles | 59–119 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 5,377 miles | 130–260 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 7,133 miles | 172–344 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 7,496 miles | 181–362 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 7,887 miles | 190–381 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 8,040 miles | 194–388 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 8,588 miles | 207–415 ms |
| Singapore | 8,674 miles | 209–419 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 5,395 miles | 130–260 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 5,451 miles | 132–263 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 5,505 miles | 133–266 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 5,730 miles | 138–277 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 5,791 miles | 140–280 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 5,991 miles | 145–289 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 6,509 miles | 157–314 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 7,479 miles | 181–361 ms |
Distances are from California. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
WordPress Development in California
The closest of our 24 data centres to California is Los Angeles, about 111 miles away. Round-trip time is set by physical distance more than by anything else, so the nearest site is usually the right one.
California has a population of about 524, which is why the small build above is the one most likely to fit a WordPress 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 California
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from California | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Los Angelesamericas | 111 miles | 3–5 ms |
| Santa Claraamericas | 200 miles | 5–10 ms |
| Seattleamericas | 857 miles | 21–41 ms |
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 10,000 requests a day crossing that link.
WordPress Development hosting in California — FAQs
What size server does a WordPress Development business in California need?
Where would the server for my California business actually run?
Is a VPS enough for WordPress Development, or do we need a dedicated server?
Can you host wordPress multisite for us?
Can we start smaller and grow?
Other industries in California
Same city, different workload.
WordPress Development hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.