Dallas, United States

Chat Software VPS in Dallas

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
Dallas and its closest data centre Dallas joined by a link to the Dallas data centre, which is in the same city. Dallas Dallas Texas, United States
1–2 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Dallas. 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. Dallas Dallas

Dallas has a data centre of its own. Every marker costs the same per month.

Show all 24 locations and distances from Dallas ▾
Location Distance Est. round trip
Americas · 9 locations
Dallas, United States Same city 1–2 ms
Atlanta, United States 1,159 km 17–35 ms
Chicago, United States 1,295 km 19–39 ms
Miami, United States 1,788 km 27–54 ms
Toronto, Canada 1,937 km 29–58 ms
Los Angeles, United States 1,991 km 30–60 ms
New York, United States 2,206 km 33–66 ms
Santa Clara, United States 2,337 km 35–70 ms
Seattle, United States 2,702 km 41–81 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
London, United Kingdom 7,641 km 115–229 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 7,901 km 119–237 ms
Madrid, Spain 7,956 km 119–239 ms
Stockholm, Sweden 8,164 km 122–245 ms
Frankfurt, Germany 8,256 km 124–248 ms
Milan, Italy 8,572 km 129–257 ms
Bucharest, Romania 9,671 km 145–290 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel 11,194 km 168–336 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Tokyo, Japan 10,400 km 156–312 ms
Hong Kong, China 13,061 km 196–392 ms
Delhi NCR, India 13,169 km 198–395 ms
Sydney, Australia 13,818 km 207–415 ms
Kolkata, India 13,835 km 208–415 ms
Mumbai, India 14,145 km 212–424 ms
Singapore 15,645 km 235–469 ms

Distances are from Dallas. 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 Dallas

We host servers for companies across Dallas — from Downtown, Uptown, Deep Ellum, Plano and Frisco — and the setup is the same wherever you are: 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.

Dallas is a data centre of ours, so a server ordered here sits in your own city.

Chat Software VPS in Dallas — FAQs

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 Dallas?
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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