Cumbernauld, United Kingdom

Chat Software VPS in Cumbernauld

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
Cumbernauld and its closest data centre Cumbernauld joined by a link to the London data centre, 555 km away. Cumbernauld London United Kingdom
555 km from Cumbernauld
8–17 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Cumbernauld. 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.

Europe, Middle East & Africa coverage 8 live
Europe, Middle East & Africa data centre locations 8 locations across Europe, Middle East & Africa, with London marked as the closest to Cumbernauld. London Cumbernauld

Cumbernauld is closest to London. Every marker costs the same per month.

Show all 24 locations and distances from Cumbernauld ▾
Location Distance Est. round trip
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
London, United Kingdom 555 km 8–17 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 702 km 11–21 ms
Frankfurt, Germany 1,065 km 16–32 ms
Stockholm, Sweden 1,359 km 20–41 ms
Milan, Italy 1,485 km 22–45 ms
Madrid, Spain 1,727 km 26–52 ms
Bucharest, Romania 2,467 km 37–74 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel 3,993 km 60–120 ms
Americas · 9 locations
New York, United States 5,196 km 78–156 ms
Toronto, Canada 5,295 km 79–159 ms
Chicago, United States 5,914 km 89–177 ms
Atlanta, United States 6,389 km 96–192 ms
Miami, United States 6,815 km 102–204 ms
Seattle, United States 7,157 km 107–215 ms
Dallas, United States 7,208 km 108–216 ms
Santa Clara, United States 8,107 km 122–243 ms
Los Angeles, United States 8,244 km 124–247 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Delhi NCR, India 6,894 km 103–207 ms
Mumbai, India 7,448 km 112–223 ms
Kolkata, India 8,088 km 121–243 ms
Tokyo, Japan 9,261 km 139–278 ms
Hong Kong, China 9,560 km 143–287 ms
Singapore 10,978 km 165–329 ms
Sydney, Australia 16,913 km 254–507 ms

Distances are from Cumbernauld. 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 Cumbernauld

We host servers for companies throughout Cumbernauld, Scotland and the rest of United Kingdom. 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.

London is our closest location at 555 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 Cumbernauld — 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. London is 555 km from Cumbernauld, an estimated 8–17 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 Cumbernauld?
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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