Papatoetoe, New Zealand

Chat Software VPS in Papatoetoe

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
Papatoetoe and its closest data centre Papatoetoe joined by a link to the Sydney data centre, 2,163 km away. Papatoetoe Sydney New South Wales, Australia
2,163 km from Papatoetoe
32–65 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Papatoetoe. 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.

Asia-Pacific coverage 7 live
Asia-Pacific data centre locations 7 locations across Asia-Pacific, with Sydney marked as the closest to Papatoetoe. Sydney Papatoetoe

Papatoetoe is closest to Sydney. Every marker costs the same per month.

Show all 24 locations and distances from Papatoetoe ▾
Location Distance Est. round trip
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Sydney, Australia 2,163 km 32–65 ms
Singapore 8,427 km 126–253 ms
Tokyo, Japan 8,856 km 133–266 ms
Hong Kong, China 9,153 km 137–275 ms
Kolkata, India 11,196 km 168–336 ms
Mumbai, India 12,306 km 185–369 ms
Delhi NCR, India 12,479 km 187–374 ms
Americas · 9 locations
Los Angeles, United States 10,500 km 157–315 ms
Santa Clara, United States 10,509 km 158–315 ms
Seattle, United States 11,278 km 169–338 ms
Dallas, United States 11,991 km 180–360 ms
Miami, United States 12,961 km 194–389 ms
Atlanta, United States 13,040 km 196–391 ms
Chicago, United States 13,193 km 198–396 ms
Toronto, Canada 13,889 km 208–417 ms
New York, United States 14,194 km 213–426 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
Tel Aviv, Israel 16,343 km 245–490 ms
Stockholm, Sweden 17,024 km 255–511 ms
Bucharest, Romania 17,271 km 259–518 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 18,131 km 272–544 ms
Frankfurt, Germany 18,183 km 273–545 ms
London, United Kingdom 18,350 km 275–551 ms
Milan, Italy 18,492 km 277–555 ms
Madrid, Spain 19,611 km 294–588 ms

Distances are from Papatoetoe. 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 Papatoetoe

We host servers for companies throughout Papatoetoe, Auckland and the rest of New Zealand. 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.

Sydney is our closest location at 2,163 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 Papatoetoe — 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. Sydney is 2,163 km from Papatoetoe, an estimated 32–65 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 Papatoetoe?
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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