Mercer Island, United States
Chat Software VPS in Mercer Island
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 Mercer Island. 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.
Mercer Island has a data centre of its own. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Mercer Island ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Seattle, United States | Same city | 1–2 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 1,136 km | 17–34 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 1,539 km | 23–46 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 2,694 km | 40–81 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 2,781 km | 42–83 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 3,318 km | 50–100 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 3,497 km | 52–105 ms |
| New York, United States | 3,858 km | 58–116 ms |
| Miami, United States | 4,387 km | 66–132 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| Stockholm, Sweden | 7,592 km | 114–228 ms |
| London, United Kingdom | 7,698 km | 115–231 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 7,825 km | 117–235 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 8,179 km | 123–245 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 8,507 km | 128–255 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 8,639 km | 130–259 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 9,327 km | 140–280 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 10,865 km | 163–326 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 7,709 km | 116–231 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 10,423 km | 156–313 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 11,328 km | 170–340 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 11,637 km | 175–349 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 12,452 km | 187–374 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 12,476 km | 187–374 ms |
| Singapore | 12,987 km | 195–390 ms |
Distances are from Mercer Island. 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 Mercer Island
We host servers for companies throughout Mercer Island, WA 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.
Seattle is a data centre of ours, so a server ordered here sits in your own city.
Chat Software VPS in Mercer Island — FAQs
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