Portland, United States
Chat Software VPS in Portland
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 Portland. 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.
Portland is closest to Seattle. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Portland ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Seattle, United States | 233 km | 3–7 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 910 km | 14–27 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 1,330 km | 20–40 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 2,626 km | 39–79 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 2,823 km | 42–85 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 3,393 km | 51–102 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 3,490 km | 52–105 ms |
| New York, United States | 3,925 km | 59–118 ms |
| Miami, United States | 4,354 km | 65–131 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 7,796 km | 117–234 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 10,540 km | 158–316 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 11,534 km | 173–346 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 11,818 km | 177–355 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 12,342 km | 185–370 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 12,662 km | 190–380 ms |
| Singapore | 13,091 km | 196–393 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| Stockholm, Sweden | 7,818 km | 117–235 ms |
| London, United Kingdom | 7,906 km | 119–237 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 8,038 km | 121–241 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 8,394 km | 126–252 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 8,697 km | 130–261 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 8,850 km | 133–266 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 9,551 km | 143–287 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 11,091 km | 166–333 ms |
Distances are from Portland. 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 Portland
We host servers for companies across Portland — from Downtown, the Pearl District, Hawthorne, Alberta Arts and Sellwood — and the setup is the same wherever you are: 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 our closest location at 233 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 Portland — FAQs
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