Business Bay, United Arab Emirates

Chat Software VPS in Business Bay

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
Business Bay and its closest data centre Business Bay joined by a link to the Mumbai data centre, 1,935 km away. Business Bay Mumbai Maharashtra, India
1,935 km from Business Bay
29–58 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Business Bay. 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 Mumbai marked as the closest to Business Bay. Mumbai Business Bay

Business Bay is closest to Mumbai. Every marker costs the same per month.

Show all 24 locations and distances from Business Bay ▾
Location Distance Est. round trip
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Mumbai, India 1,935 km 29–58 ms
Delhi NCR, India 2,222 km 33–67 ms
Kolkata, India 3,369 km 51–101 ms
Singapore 5,837 km 88–175 ms
Hong Kong, China 5,955 km 89–179 ms
Tokyo, Japan 7,931 km 119–238 ms
Sydney, Australia 12,049 km 181–361 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
Tel Aviv, Israel 2,137 km 32–64 ms
Bucharest, Romania 3,384 km 51–102 ms
Milan, Italy 4,666 km 70–140 ms
Stockholm, Sweden 4,759 km 71–143 ms
Frankfurt, Germany 4,837 km 73–145 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 5,161 km 77–155 ms
London, United Kingdom 5,475 km 82–164 ms
Madrid, Spain 5,657 km 85–170 ms
Americas · 9 locations
New York, United States 11,010 km 165–330 ms
Toronto, Canada 11,073 km 166–332 ms
Chicago, United States 11,639 km 175–349 ms
Seattle, United States 11,917 km 179–358 ms
Atlanta, United States 12,198 km 183–366 ms
Miami, United States 12,601 km 189–378 ms
Dallas, United States 12,923 km 194–388 ms
Santa Clara, United States 13,055 km 196–392 ms
Los Angeles, United States 13,393 km 201–402 ms

Distances are from Business Bay. 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 Business Bay

We host servers for companies throughout Business Bay, Dubai and the rest of United Arab Emirates. 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.

Mumbai is our closest location at 1,935 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 Business Bay — 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. Mumbai is 1,935 km from Business Bay, an estimated 29–58 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 Business Bay?
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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