Long Branch, United States

Chat Software VPS in Long Branch

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
Long Branch and its closest data centre Long Branch joined by a link to the New York data centre, 45 km away. Long Branch New York New York, United States
45 km from Long Branch
1–2 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Long Branch. 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 Long Branch. New York Long Branch

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

Show all 24 locations and distances from Long Branch ▾
Location Distance Est. round trip
Americas · 9 locations
New York, United States 45 km 1–2 ms
Toronto, Canada 581 km 9–17 ms
Chicago, United States 1,155 km 17–35 ms
Atlanta, United States 1,175 km 18–35 ms
Miami, United States 1,716 km 26–51 ms
Dallas, United States 2,195 km 33–66 ms
Seattle, United States 3,888 km 58–117 ms
Los Angeles, United States 3,940 km 59–118 ms
Santa Clara, United States 4,117 km 62–124 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
London, United Kingdom 5,598 km 84–168 ms
Madrid, Spain 5,786 km 87–174 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 5,892 km 88–177 ms
Frankfurt, Germany 6,231 km 93–187 ms
Stockholm, Sweden 6,355 km 95–191 ms
Milan, Italy 6,489 km 97–195 ms
Bucharest, Romania 7,680 km 115–230 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel 9,141 km 137–274 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Tokyo, Japan 10,893 km 163–327 ms
Delhi NCR, India 11,810 km 177–354 ms
Mumbai, India 12,575 km 189–377 ms
Kolkata, India 12,789 km 192–384 ms
Hong Kong, China 13,001 km 195–390 ms
Singapore 15,378 km 231–461 ms
Sydney, Australia 15,987 km 240–480 ms

Distances are from Long Branch. 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 Long Branch

We host servers for companies throughout Long Branch, NJ 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 45 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 Long Branch — 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 45 km from Long Branch, an estimated 1–2 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 Long Branch?
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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