Gulfport, United States

Chat Software VPS in Gulfport

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
Gulfport and its closest data centre Gulfport joined by a link to the Atlanta data centre, 581 km away. Gulfport Atlanta Georgia, United States
581 km from Gulfport
9–17 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Gulfport. 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 Atlanta marked as the closest to Gulfport. Atlanta Gulfport

Gulfport is closest to Atlanta. Every marker costs the same per month.

Show all 24 locations and distances from Gulfport ▾
Location Distance Est. round trip
Americas · 9 locations
Atlanta, United States 581 km 9–17 ms
Dallas, United States 777 km 12–23 ms
Miami, United States 1,012 km 15–30 ms
Chicago, United States 1,287 km 19–39 ms
Toronto, Canada 1,708 km 26–51 ms
New York, United States 1,781 km 27–53 ms
Los Angeles, United States 2,764 km 41–83 ms
Santa Clara, United States 3,115 km 47–93 ms
Seattle, United States 3,413 km 51–102 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
London, United Kingdom 7,348 km 110–220 ms
Madrid, Spain 7,520 km 113–226 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 7,636 km 115–229 ms
Frankfurt, Germany 7,979 km 120–239 ms
Stockholm, Sweden 8,033 km 120–241 ms
Milan, Italy 8,245 km 124–247 ms
Bucharest, Romania 9,423 km 141–283 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel 10,895 km 163–327 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Tokyo, Japan 11,079 km 166–332 ms
Delhi NCR, India 13,310 km 200–399 ms
Hong Kong, China 13,652 km 205–410 ms
Kolkata, India 14,122 km 212–424 ms
Mumbai, India 14,189 km 213–426 ms
Sydney, Australia 14,405 km 216–432 ms
Singapore 16,232 km 243–487 ms

Distances are from Gulfport. 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 Gulfport

We host servers for companies throughout Gulfport, MS 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.

Atlanta is our closest location at 581 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 Gulfport — 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. Atlanta is 581 km from Gulfport, an estimated 9–17 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 Gulfport?
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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