Oak Hill, United States

Chat Software VPS in Oak Hill

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
Oak Hill and its closest data centre Oak Hill joined by a link to the New York data centre, 351 km away. Oak Hill New York New York, United States
351 km from Oak Hill
5–11 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Oak Hill. 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 Oak Hill. New York Oak Hill

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

Show all 24 locations and distances from Oak Hill ▾
Location Distance Est. round trip
Americas · 9 locations
New York, United States 351 km 5–11 ms
Toronto, Canada 551 km 8–17 ms
Atlanta, United States 850 km 13–25 ms
Chicago, United States 925 km 14–28 ms
Miami, United States 1,487 km 22–45 ms
Dallas, United States 1,872 km 28–56 ms
Los Angeles, United States 3,660 km 55–110 ms
Seattle, United States 3,708 km 56–111 ms
Santa Clara, United States 3,861 km 58–116 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
London, United Kingdom 5,920 km 89–178 ms
Madrid, Spain 6,115 km 92–183 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 6,212 km 93–186 ms
Frankfurt, Germany 6,552 km 98–197 ms
Stockholm, Sweden 6,653 km 100–200 ms
Milan, Italy 6,816 km 102–204 ms
Bucharest, Romania 7,999 km 120–240 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel 9,466 km 142–284 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Tokyo, Japan 10,889 km 163–327 ms
Delhi NCR, India 12,071 km 181–362 ms
Mumbai, India 12,862 km 193–386 ms
Kolkata, India 13,018 km 195–391 ms
Hong Kong, China 13,099 km 196–393 ms
Singapore 15,535 km 233–466 ms
Sydney, Australia 15,679 km 235–470 ms

Distances are from Oak Hill. 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 Oak Hill

We host servers for companies throughout Oak Hill, VA 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 351 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 Oak Hill — 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 351 km from Oak Hill, an estimated 5–11 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 Oak Hill?
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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