Harpenden, United Kingdom
Chat Software VPS in Harpenden
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 Harpenden. 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.
Harpenden has a data centre of its own. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Harpenden ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | Same city | 1–2 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 365 km | 5–11 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 660 km | 10–20 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 994 km | 15–30 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 1,293 km | 19–39 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 1,420 km | 21–43 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 2,114 km | 32–63 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 3,585 km | 54–108 ms |
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| New York, United States | 5,544 km | 83–166 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 5,684 km | 85–171 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 6,323 km | 95–190 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 6,744 km | 101–202 ms |
| Miami, United States | 7,106 km | 107–213 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 7,612 km | 114–228 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 7,663 km | 115–230 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 8,598 km | 129–258 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 8,721 km | 131–262 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Delhi NCR, India | 6,740 km | 101–202 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 7,208 km | 108–216 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 7,970 km | 120–239 ms |
| Tokyo, Japan | 9,538 km | 143–286 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 9,618 km | 144–289 ms |
| Singapore | 10,856 km | 163–326 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 16,991 km | 255–510 ms |
Distances are from Harpenden. 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 Harpenden
We host servers for companies throughout Harpenden, England and the rest of United Kingdom. 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.
London is a data centre of ours, so a server ordered here sits in your own city.
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