Pinewood, United States

Chat Software VPS in Pinewood

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
Pinewood and its closest data centre Pinewood joined by a link to the Miami data centre, which is in the same city. Pinewood Miami Florida, United States
1–2 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Pinewood. 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. Miami Pinewood

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

Show all 24 locations and distances from Pinewood ▾
Location Distance Est. round trip
Americas · 9 locations
Miami, United States Same city 1–2 ms
Atlanta, United States 964 km 14–29 ms
New York, United States 1,747 km 26–52 ms
Dallas, United States 1,779 km 27–53 ms
Chicago, United States 1,905 km 29–57 ms
Toronto, Canada 1,979 km 30–59 ms
Los Angeles, United States 3,752 km 56–113 ms
Santa Clara, United States 4,116 km 62–123 ms
Seattle, United States 4,386 km 66–132 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
Madrid, Spain 7,086 km 106–213 ms
London, United Kingdom 7,120 km 107–214 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 7,439 km 112–223 ms
Frankfurt, Germany 7,758 km 116–233 ms
Milan, Italy 7,949 km 119–238 ms
Stockholm, Sweden 8,005 km 120–240 ms
Bucharest, Romania 9,210 km 138–276 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel 10,584 km 159–318 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Tokyo, Japan 11,993 km 180–360 ms
Delhi NCR, India 13,510 km 203–405 ms
Mumbai, India 14,234 km 214–427 ms
Hong Kong, China 14,437 km 217–433 ms
Kolkata, India 14,490 km 217–435 ms
Sydney, Australia 15,028 km 225–451 ms
Singapore 16,957 km 254–509 ms

Distances are from Pinewood. 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 Pinewood

We host servers for companies throughout Pinewood, FL 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.

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

Chat Software VPS in Pinewood — 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 Pinewood?
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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