Holmesburg, United States

Chat Software VPS in Holmesburg

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
Holmesburg and its closest data centre Holmesburg joined by a link to the New York data centre, 114 km away. Holmesburg New York New York, United States
114 km from Holmesburg
2–3 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Holmesburg. 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 New York marked as the closest to Holmesburg. New York Holmesburg

Holmesburg is closest to New York. Every marker costs the same per month.

Show all 24 locations and distances from Holmesburg ▾
Location Distance Est. round trip
Americas · 9 locations
New York, United States 114 km 2–3 ms
Toronto, Canada 540 km 8–16 ms
Chicago, United States 1,077 km 16–32 ms
Atlanta, United States 1,086 km 16–33 ms
Miami, United States 1,659 km 25–50 ms
Dallas, United States 2,102 km 32–63 ms
Seattle, United States 3,825 km 57–115 ms
Los Angeles, United States 3,854 km 58–116 ms
Santa Clara, United States 4,036 km 61–121 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
London, United Kingdom 5,684 km 85–171 ms
Madrid, Spain 5,878 km 88–176 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 5,978 km 90–179 ms
Frankfurt, Germany 6,317 km 95–190 ms
Stockholm, Sweden 6,432 km 96–193 ms
Milan, Italy 6,578 km 99–197 ms
Bucharest, Romania 7,765 km 116–233 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel 9,229 km 138–277 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Tokyo, Japan 10,878 km 163–326 ms
Delhi NCR, India 11,874 km 178–356 ms
Mumbai, India 12,648 km 190–379 ms
Kolkata, India 12,843 km 193–385 ms
Hong Kong, China 13,016 km 195–390 ms
Singapore 15,411 km 231–462 ms
Sydney, Australia 15,896 km 238–477 ms

Distances are from Holmesburg. 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 Holmesburg

We host servers for companies throughout Holmesburg, PA 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.

New York is our closest location at 114 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 Holmesburg — 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. New York is 114 km from Holmesburg, an estimated 2–3 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 Holmesburg?
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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