Abbotsford, Canada

Chat Software VPS in Abbotsford

Built for always-on messaging workloads and long-lived connections. Built by hand, usually the same day.

Configure your chat server → Recommended from $147.35 USD / month
  • WebSockets and any port
  • Same price in all 24 locations
  • Root access, your own stack
Closest location live
Abbotsford and its closest data centre Abbotsford joined by a link to the Seattle data centre, 162 km away. Abbotsford Seattle Washington, United States
162 km from Abbotsford
2–5 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Abbotsford. Your real figure depends on your connection and route, and lands inside this range.

Choose how the processor is shared

Every class ships the same hardware menu and the same Ubuntu Server 24.04 (LTS) 64-bit image. What changes is how the processor is shared — and the price moves with it.

Availability

Budget friendly

Workable for a small team. Shared processor time shows up as lag once concurrent conversations climb.


$136.35USD

per month

Configure

Dedicated

High performance

Dedicated cores for large concurrent loads, where a neighbour’s spike would otherwise be felt as delay.


$158.35USD

per month

Configure
Hourly only

Burstable

Not for messaging

Throttles under sustained load, and a messaging server is sustained load by definition.


$0.3037USD

per hour — booked for a window, not subscribed

Book by the hour

Memory and cores can be raised on the same server without a rebuild — usually within the hour.

A socket is not a page view

Most hosting is sized for requests that arrive, get answered and end. Messaging is the opposite: every participant holds a connection open for as long as they are present, and the server pays for it the entire time. That changes what to buy.

Memory is the ceiling, not cores

Each open connection costs memory whether or not anyone is typing. Concurrency is usually a memory question first and a processor question second.

Steady beats fast

A burst of speed does not help a connection that has to stay responsive for hours. Consistent processor time does, which is why the shared-burst class is the wrong one here.

Latency is felt per keystroke

A page load absorbs a slow round trip once. A live conversation exposes it continuously, which is why the region you pick matters more here than almost anywhere else.

Where your server runs

All 24 locations cost the same, so pick whichever sits closest to the people who will actually use the server. Choose the region closest to the people holding the conversations. Messaging keeps a connection open, so latency is felt on every keystroke rather than once per page.

Americas coverage 9 live
Americas data centre locations 9 locations across Americas, with Seattle marked as the closest to Abbotsford. Seattle Abbotsford

Abbotsford is closest to Seattle. Every marker costs the same per month.

Show all 24 locations and distances from Abbotsford ▾
Location Distance Est. round trip
Americas · 9 locations
Seattle, United States 162 km 2–5 ms
Santa Clara, United States 1,302 km 20–39 ms
Los Angeles, United States 1,701 km 26–51 ms
Dallas, United States 2,778 km 42–83 ms
Chicago, United States 2,788 km 42–84 ms
Toronto, Canada 3,299 km 49–99 ms
Atlanta, United States 3,537 km 53–106 ms
New York, United States 3,844 km 58–115 ms
Miami, United States 4,444 km 67–133 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
Stockholm, Sweden 7,438 km 112–223 ms
London, United Kingdom 7,563 km 113–227 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 7,685 km 115–231 ms
Frankfurt, Germany 8,038 km 121–241 ms
Madrid, Spain 8,389 km 126–252 ms
Milan, Italy 8,501 km 128–255 ms
Bucharest, Romania 9,175 km 138–275 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel 10,710 km 161–321 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Tokyo, Japan 7,623 km 114–229 ms
Hong Kong, China 10,316 km 155–309 ms
Delhi NCR, India 11,169 km 168–335 ms
Kolkata, India 11,491 km 172–345 ms
Mumbai, India 12,292 km 184–369 ms
Sydney, Australia 12,547 km 188–376 ms
Singapore 12,886 km 193–387 ms

Distances are from Abbotsford. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.

Daily off-server backups

Free SSL, issued and renewed for you

Open ports and WebSocket support by default

Root access for your own stack

Included with every Chat Software server, in every class, at every location.

Chat hosting for Abbotsford

We host servers for companies throughout Abbotsford, BC and the rest of Canada. You tell us what the server is for, we build it by hand, and you get access and the login details the same working day.

Seattle is our closest location at 162 km, which makes it the usual starting point. If the people using the server are somewhere else, host it somewhere else — every location costs the same.

Chat Software VPS in Abbotsford — FAQs

Why does location matter more for messaging?
A messaging server holds a connection open rather than answering one request and closing it, so the round trip is felt on every keystroke instead of once per page load. Seattle is 162 km from Abbotsford, an estimated 2–5 ms.
How many conversations can it hold at once?
That depends on your stack and what each connection is doing, and we would rather not quote a figure we have not benchmarked on this hardware — it is the easiest number on the page for you to disprove. Tell us your framework and expected concurrency and we will size it with you.
Which hardware class should I choose?
General purpose for almost every deployment: long-lived connections need steady processor time more than peak speed. Dedicated once concurrency is high enough that a neighbour’s spike would be felt as lag. Not Burstable — it throttles under exactly the sustained load a chat server always has.
Do you allow WebSockets and custom ports?
Yes. It is your server with root access, so any port range and any protocol you need, and nothing in front of it terminating connections you did not ask us to terminate.
How much does it cost in Abbotsford?
From $136.35 USD per month, with $147.35 USD on General purpose the usual starting point. The same prices apply in all 24 locations.

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