Cumberland, United States

Chat Software VPS in Cumberland

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
Cumberland and its closest data centre Cumberland joined by a link to the New York data centre, 421 km away. Cumberland New York New York, United States
421 km from Cumberland
6–13 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Cumberland. 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 New York marked as the closest to Cumberland. New York Cumberland

Cumberland is closest to New York. Every marker costs the same per month.

Show all 24 locations and distances from Cumberland ▾
Location Distance Est. round trip
Americas · 9 locations
New York, United States 421 km 6–13 ms
Toronto, Canada 448 km 7–13 ms
Chicago, United States 786 km 12–24 ms
Atlanta, United States 826 km 12–25 ms
Miami, United States 1,550 km 23–47 ms
Dallas, United States 1,785 km 27–54 ms
Los Angeles, United States 3,539 km 53–106 ms
Seattle, United States 3,566 km 53–107 ms
Santa Clara, United States 3,731 km 56–112 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
London, United Kingdom 5,956 km 89–179 ms
Madrid, Spain 6,183 km 93–185 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 6,242 km 94–187 ms
Frankfurt, Germany 6,586 km 99–198 ms
Stockholm, Sweden 6,656 km 100–200 ms
Milan, Italy 6,860 km 103–206 ms
Bucharest, Romania 8,029 km 120–241 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel 9,508 km 143–285 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Tokyo, Japan 10,760 km 161–323 ms
Delhi NCR, India 12,041 km 181–361 ms
Mumbai, India 12,852 km 193–386 ms
Kolkata, India 12,968 km 195–389 ms
Hong Kong, China 12,994 km 195–390 ms
Singapore 15,448 km 232–463 ms
Sydney, Australia 15,575 km 234–467 ms

Distances are from Cumberland. 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 Cumberland

We host servers for companies throughout Cumberland, MD 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.

New York is our closest location at 421 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 Cumberland — 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. New York is 421 km from Cumberland, an estimated 6–13 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 Cumberland?
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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