Hurst, United States

Chat Software VPS in Hurst

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
Hurst and its closest data centre Hurst joined by a link to the Dallas data centre, which is in the same city. Hurst Dallas Texas, United States
1–2 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Hurst. 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. Dallas Hurst

Hurst has a data centre of its own. Every marker costs the same per month.

Show all 24 locations and distances from Hurst ▾
Location Distance Est. round trip
Americas · 9 locations
Dallas, United States Same city 1–2 ms
Atlanta, United States 1,192 km 18–36 ms
Chicago, United States 1,312 km 20–39 ms
Miami, United States 1,821 km 27–55 ms
Los Angeles, United States 1,957 km 29–59 ms
Toronto, Canada 1,958 km 29–59 ms
New York, United States 2,233 km 34–67 ms
Santa Clara, United States 2,303 km 35–69 ms
Seattle, United States 2,675 km 40–80 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
London, United Kingdom 7,660 km 115–230 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 7,919 km 119–238 ms
Madrid, Spain 7,981 km 120–239 ms
Stockholm, Sweden 8,177 km 123–245 ms
Frankfurt, Germany 8,274 km 124–248 ms
Milan, Italy 8,592 km 129–258 ms
Bucharest, Romania 9,688 km 145–291 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel 11,213 km 168–336 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Tokyo, Japan 10,374 km 156–311 ms
Hong Kong, China 13,039 km 196–391 ms
Delhi NCR, India 13,168 km 198–395 ms
Sydney, Australia 13,788 km 207–414 ms
Kolkata, India 13,827 km 207–415 ms
Mumbai, India 14,148 km 212–424 ms
Singapore 15,622 km 234–469 ms

Distances are from Hurst. 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 Hurst

We host servers for companies throughout Hurst, TX 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.

Dallas is a data centre of ours, so a server ordered here sits in your own city.

Chat Software VPS in Hurst — FAQs

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 Hurst?
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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