Fairbanks, United States

Chat Software VPS in Fairbanks

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
Fairbanks and its closest data centre Fairbanks joined by a link to the Seattle data centre, 2,442 km away. Fairbanks Seattle Washington, United States
2,442 km from Fairbanks
37–73 ms estimated round trip

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

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

Show all 24 locations and distances from Fairbanks ▾
Location Distance Est. round trip
Americas · 9 locations
Seattle, United States 2,442 km 37–73 ms
Santa Clara, United States 3,492 km 52–105 ms
Los Angeles, United States 3,954 km 59–119 ms
Chicago, United States 4,487 km 67–135 ms
Toronto, Canada 4,715 km 71–141 ms
Dallas, United States 4,929 km 74–148 ms
New York, United States 5,237 km 79–157 ms
Atlanta, United States 5,402 km 81–162 ms
Miami, United States 6,375 km 96–191 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Tokyo, Japan 5,658 km 85–170 ms
Hong Kong, China 8,145 km 122–244 ms
Delhi NCR, India 8,927 km 134–268 ms
Kolkata, India 9,188 km 138–276 ms
Mumbai, India 10,067 km 151–302 ms
Singapore 10,731 km 161–322 ms
Sydney, Australia 12,175 km 183–365 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
Stockholm, Sweden 6,157 km 92–185 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 6,772 km 102–203 ms
London, United Kingdom 6,781 km 102–203 ms
Frankfurt, Germany 7,072 km 106–212 ms
Milan, Italy 7,587 km 114–228 ms
Bucharest, Romania 7,854 km 118–236 ms
Madrid, Spain 7,899 km 118–237 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel 9,236 km 139–277 ms

Distances are from Fairbanks. 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 Fairbanks

We host servers for companies throughout Fairbanks, AK 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.

Seattle is our closest location at 2,442 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 Fairbanks — 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 2,442 km from Fairbanks, an estimated 37–73 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 Fairbanks?
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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