Pitsea, United Kingdom

Chat Software VPS in Pitsea

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
Pitsea and its closest data centre Pitsea joined by a link to the London data centre, 44 km away. Pitsea London United Kingdom
44 km from Pitsea
1–2 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Pitsea. 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.

Europe, Middle East & Africa coverage 8 live
Europe, Middle East & Africa data centre locations 8 locations across Europe, Middle East & Africa, with London marked as the closest to Pitsea. London Pitsea

Pitsea is closest to London. Every marker costs the same per month.

Show all 24 locations and distances from Pitsea ▾
Location Distance Est. round trip
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
London, United Kingdom 44 km 1–2 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 314 km 5–9 ms
Frankfurt, Germany 596 km 9–18 ms
Milan, Italy 931 km 14–28 ms
Madrid, Spain 1,281 km 19–38 ms
Stockholm, Sweden 1,397 km 21–42 ms
Bucharest, Romania 2,050 km 31–61 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel 3,519 km 53–106 ms
Americas · 9 locations
New York, United States 5,610 km 84–168 ms
Toronto, Canada 5,750 km 86–172 ms
Chicago, United States 6,389 km 96–192 ms
Atlanta, United States 6,810 km 102–204 ms
Miami, United States 7,169 km 108–215 ms
Dallas, United States 7,678 km 115–230 ms
Seattle, United States 7,721 km 116–232 ms
Santa Clara, United States 8,659 km 130–260 ms
Los Angeles, United States 8,784 km 132–264 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Delhi NCR, India 6,685 km 100–201 ms
Mumbai, India 7,148 km 107–214 ms
Kolkata, India 7,918 km 119–238 ms
Tokyo, Japan 9,530 km 143–286 ms
Hong Kong, China 9,582 km 144–287 ms
Singapore 10,803 km 162–324 ms
Sydney, Australia 16,952 km 254–509 ms

Distances are from Pitsea. 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 Pitsea

We host servers for companies throughout Pitsea, England and the rest of United Kingdom. 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.

London is our closest location at 44 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 Pitsea — 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. London is 44 km from Pitsea, an estimated 1–2 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 Pitsea?
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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