Fort McMurray, Canada

Chat Software VPS in Fort McMurray

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
Fort McMurray and its closest data centre Fort McMurray joined by a link to the Seattle data centre, 1,256 km away. Fort McMurray Seattle Washington, United States
1,256 km from Fort McMurray
19–38 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Fort McMurray. 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 Fort McMurray. Seattle Fort McMurray

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

Show all 24 locations and distances from Fort McMurray ▾
Location Distance Est. round trip
Americas · 9 locations
Seattle, United States 1,256 km 19–38 ms
Santa Clara, United States 2,292 km 34–69 ms
Chicago, United States 2,363 km 35–71 ms
Los Angeles, United States 2,575 km 39–77 ms
Toronto, Canada 2,665 km 40–80 ms
Dallas, United States 2,888 km 43–87 ms
New York, United States 3,209 km 48–96 ms
Atlanta, United States 3,272 km 49–98 ms
Miami, United States 4,246 km 64–127 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
Stockholm, Sweden 6,364 km 95–191 ms
London, United Kingdom 6,444 km 97–193 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 6,570 km 99–197 ms
Frankfurt, Germany 6,925 km 104–208 ms
Madrid, Spain 7,280 km 109–218 ms
Milan, Italy 7,384 km 111–222 ms
Bucharest, Romania 8,090 km 121–243 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel 9,638 km 145–289 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Tokyo, Japan 7,779 km 117–233 ms
Hong Kong, China 10,249 km 154–307 ms
Delhi NCR, India 10,498 km 157–315 ms
Kolkata, India 11,005 km 165–330 ms
Mumbai, India 11,577 km 174–347 ms
Singapore 12,829 km 192–385 ms
Sydney, Australia 13,526 km 203–406 ms

Distances are from Fort McMurray. 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 Fort McMurray

We host servers for companies throughout Fort McMurray, AB and the rest of Canada. 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 1,256 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 Fort McMurray — 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 1,256 km from Fort McMurray, an estimated 19–38 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 Fort McMurray?
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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