Brisbane, Australia

Chat Software VPS in Brisbane

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
Brisbane and its closest data centre Brisbane joined by a link to the Sydney data centre, 733 km away. Brisbane Sydney New South Wales, Australia
733 km from Brisbane
11–22 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Brisbane. 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.

Asia-Pacific coverage 7 live
Asia-Pacific data centre locations 7 locations across Asia-Pacific, with Sydney marked as the closest to Brisbane. Sydney Brisbane

Brisbane is closest to Sydney. Every marker costs the same per month.

Show all 24 locations and distances from Brisbane ▾
Location Distance Est. round trip
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Sydney, Australia 733 km 11–22 ms
Singapore 6,154 km 92–185 ms
Hong Kong, China 6,934 km 104–208 ms
Tokyo, Japan 7,160 km 107–215 ms
Kolkata, India 8,896 km 133–267 ms
Mumbai, India 10,054 km 151–302 ms
Delhi NCR, India 10,179 km 153–305 ms
Americas · 9 locations
Santa Clara, United States 11,412 km 171–342 ms
Los Angeles, United States 11,565 km 173–347 ms
Seattle, United States 11,847 km 178–355 ms
Dallas, United States 13,395 km 201–402 ms
Chicago, United States 14,363 km 215–431 ms
Atlanta, United States 14,545 km 218–436 ms
Miami, United States 14,762 km 221–443 ms
Toronto, Canada 15,037 km 226–451 ms
New York, United States 15,500 km 233–465 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
Tel Aviv, Israel 14,114 km 212–423 ms
Bucharest, Romania 14,979 km 225–449 ms
Stockholm, Sweden 15,097 km 226–453 ms
Frankfurt, Germany 16,091 km 241–483 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 16,193 km 243–486 ms
Milan, Italy 16,259 km 244–488 ms
London, United Kingdom 16,526 km 248–496 ms
Madrid, Spain 17,443 km 262–523 ms

Distances are from Brisbane. 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 Brisbane

We host servers for companies across Brisbane — from the CBD, Fortitude Valley, South Bank, Newstead and West End — and the setup is the same wherever you are: 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.

Sydney is our closest location at 733 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 Brisbane — 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. Sydney is 733 km from Brisbane, an estimated 11–22 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 Brisbane?
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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