Los Gatos, United States

Chat Software VPS in Los Gatos

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
Los Gatos and its closest data centre Los Gatos joined by a link to the Santa Clara data centre, which is in the same city. Los Gatos Santa Clara California, United States
1–2 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Los Gatos. 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. Santa Clara Los Gatos

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

Show all 24 locations and distances from Los Gatos ▾
Location Distance Est. round trip
Americas · 9 locations
Santa Clara, United States Same city 1–2 ms
Los Angeles, United States 488 km 7–15 ms
Seattle, United States 1,155 km 17–35 ms
Dallas, United States 2,339 km 35–70 ms
Chicago, United States 2,969 km 45–89 ms
Atlanta, United States 3,403 km 51–102 ms
Toronto, Canada 3,633 km 55–109 ms
New York, United States 4,114 km 62–123 ms
Miami, United States 4,124 km 62–124 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Tokyo, Japan 8,341 km 125–250 ms
Hong Kong, China 11,165 km 167–335 ms
Sydney, Australia 11,952 km 179–359 ms
Delhi NCR, India 12,429 km 186–373 ms
Kolkata, India 12,646 km 190–379 ms
Mumbai, India 13,564 km 203–407 ms
Singapore 13,647 km 205–409 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
London, United Kingdom 8,647 km 130–259 ms
Stockholm, Sweden 8,666 km 130–260 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 8,807 km 132–264 ms
Frankfurt, Germany 9,167 km 138–275 ms
Madrid, Spain 9,337 km 140–280 ms
Milan, Italy 9,602 km 144–288 ms
Bucharest, Romania 10,385 km 156–312 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel 11,939 km 179–358 ms

Distances are from Los Gatos. 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 Los Gatos

We host servers for companies throughout Los Gatos, CA 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.

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

Chat Software VPS in Los Gatos — 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 Los Gatos?
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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