Foster City, United States
Chat Software VPS in Foster City
Built for always-on messaging workloads and long-lived connections. Built by hand, usually the same day.
- ✓ WebSockets and any port
- ✓ Same price in all 24 locations
- ✓ Root access, your own stack
Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Foster City. 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
ConfigureGeneral purpose
The usual choice
Long-lived connections need steady processor time more than they need peak speed.
$147.35USD
per month
ConfigureDedicated
High performance
Dedicated cores for large concurrent loads, where a neighbour’s spike would otherwise be felt as delay.
$158.35USD
per month
ConfigureBurstable
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 hourMemory 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.
Foster City has a data centre of its own. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Foster City ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Santa Clara, United States | Same city | 1–2 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 533 km | 8–16 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 1,117 km | 17–34 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 2,368 km | 36–71 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 2,981 km | 45–89 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 3,426 km | 51–103 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 3,642 km | 55–109 ms |
| New York, United States | 4,125 km | 62–124 ms |
| Miami, United States | 4,154 km | 62–125 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 8,299 km | 124–249 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 11,121 km | 167–334 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 11,947 km | 179–358 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 12,385 km | 186–372 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 12,601 km | 189–378 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 13,521 km | 203–406 ms |
| Singapore | 13,606 km | 204–408 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 8,630 km | 129–259 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 8,640 km | 130–259 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 8,788 km | 132–264 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 9,148 km | 137–274 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 9,327 km | 140–280 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 9,584 km | 144–288 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 10,360 km | 155–311 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 11,913 km | 179–357 ms |
Distances are from Foster City. 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 Foster City
We host servers for companies throughout Foster City, CA 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.
Santa Clara is a data centre of ours, so a server ordered here sits in your own city.
Chat Software VPS in Foster City — FAQs
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