Fern Creek, United States

Chat Software VPS in Fern Creek

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
Fern Creek and its closest data centre Fern Creek joined by a link to the Chicago data centre, 448 km away. Fern Creek Chicago Illinois, United States
448 km from Fern Creek
7–13 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Fern Creek. 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 Chicago marked as the closest to Fern Creek. Chicago Fern Creek

Fern Creek is closest to Chicago. Every marker costs the same per month.

Show all 24 locations and distances from Fern Creek ▾
Location Distance Est. round trip
Americas · 9 locations
Chicago, United States 448 km 7–13 ms
Atlanta, United States 502 km 8–15 ms
Toronto, Canada 803 km 12–24 ms
New York, United States 1,033 km 16–31 ms
Dallas, United States 1,177 km 18–35 ms
Miami, United States 1,469 km 22–44 ms
Los Angeles, United States 2,954 km 44–89 ms
Seattle, United States 3,138 km 47–94 ms
Santa Clara, United States 3,178 km 48–95 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
London, United Kingdom 6,506 km 98–195 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 6,780 km 102–203 ms
Madrid, Spain 6,781 km 102–203 ms
Stockholm, Sweden 7,128 km 107–214 ms
Frankfurt, Germany 7,130 km 107–214 ms
Milan, Italy 7,424 km 111–223 ms
Bucharest, Romania 8,562 km 128–257 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel 10,062 km 151–302 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Tokyo, Japan 10,578 km 159–317 ms
Delhi NCR, India 12,390 km 186–372 ms
Hong Kong, China 12,981 km 195–389 ms
Kolkata, India 13,232 km 198–397 ms
Mumbai, India 13,265 km 199–398 ms
Sydney, Australia 14,964 km 224–449 ms
Singapore 15,517 km 233–466 ms

Distances are from Fern Creek. 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 Fern Creek

We host servers for companies throughout Fern Creek, KY 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.

Chicago is our closest location at 448 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 Fern Creek — 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. Chicago is 448 km from Fern Creek, an estimated 7–13 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 Fern Creek?
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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