Cariboo, Canada

Chat Software VPS in Cariboo

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
Cariboo and its closest data centre Cariboo joined by a link to the Seattle data centre, 187 km away. Cariboo Seattle Washington, United States
187 km from Cariboo
3–6 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Cariboo. 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 Cariboo. Seattle Cariboo

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

Show all 24 locations and distances from Cariboo ▾
Location Distance Est. round trip
Americas · 9 locations
Seattle, United States 187 km 3–6 ms
Santa Clara, United States 1,325 km 20–40 ms
Los Angeles, United States 1,732 km 26–52 ms
Dallas, United States 2,829 km 42–85 ms
Chicago, United States 2,835 km 43–85 ms
Toronto, Canada 3,342 km 50–100 ms
Atlanta, United States 3,587 km 54–108 ms
New York, United States 3,887 km 58–117 ms
Miami, United States 4,494 km 67–135 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
Stockholm, Sweden 7,434 km 112–223 ms
London, United Kingdom 7,572 km 114–227 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 7,690 km 115–231 ms
Frankfurt, Germany 8,043 km 121–241 ms
Madrid, Spain 8,405 km 126–252 ms
Milan, Italy 8,508 km 128–255 ms
Bucharest, Romania 9,172 km 138–275 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel 10,704 km 161–321 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Tokyo, Japan 7,573 km 114–227 ms
Hong Kong, China 10,267 km 154–308 ms
Delhi NCR, India 11,135 km 167–334 ms
Kolkata, India 11,450 km 172–344 ms
Mumbai, India 12,259 km 184–368 ms
Sydney, Australia 12,515 km 188–375 ms
Singapore 12,837 km 193–385 ms

Distances are from Cariboo. 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 Cariboo

We host servers for companies throughout Cariboo, 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 187 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 Cariboo — 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 187 km from Cariboo, an estimated 3–6 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 Cariboo?
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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