Canton, United States

Chat Software VPS in Canton

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
Canton and its closest data centre Canton joined by a link to the Atlanta data centre, 55 km away. Canton Atlanta Georgia, United States
55 km from Canton
1–2 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Canton. 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 Atlanta marked as the closest to Canton. Atlanta Canton

Canton is closest to Atlanta. Every marker costs the same per month.

Show all 24 locations and distances from Canton ▾
Location Distance Est. round trip
Americas · 9 locations
Atlanta, United States 55 km 1–2 ms
Chicago, United States 893 km 13–27 ms
Miami, United States 1,029 km 15–31 ms
Toronto, Canada 1,136 km 17–34 ms
Dallas, United States 1,152 km 17–35 ms
New York, United States 1,171 km 18–35 ms
Los Angeles, United States 3,092 km 46–93 ms
Santa Clara, United States 3,375 km 51–101 ms
Seattle, United States 3,465 km 52–104 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
London, United Kingdom 6,738 km 101–202 ms
Madrid, Spain 6,922 km 104–208 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 7,027 km 105–211 ms
Frankfurt, Germany 7,369 km 111–221 ms
Stockholm, Sweden 7,440 km 112–223 ms
Milan, Italy 7,635 km 115–229 ms
Bucharest, Romania 8,815 km 132–264 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel 10,286 km 154–309 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Tokyo, Japan 10,991 km 165–330 ms
Delhi NCR, India 12,780 km 192–383 ms
Hong Kong, China 13,424 km 201–403 ms
Mumbai, India 13,621 km 204–409 ms
Kolkata, India 13,653 km 205–410 ms
Sydney, Australia 14,951 km 224–449 ms
Singapore 15,964 km 239–479 ms

Distances are from Canton. 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 Canton

We host servers for companies throughout Canton, GA and the rest of United States. 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.

Atlanta is our closest location at 55 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 Canton — 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. Atlanta is 55 km from Canton, an estimated 1–2 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 Canton?
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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