South Australia, Australia

Chat Software VPS in South Australia

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
South Australia and its closest data centre South Australia joined by a link to the Sydney data centre, 1,141 km away. South Australia Sydney New South Wales, Australia
1,141 km from South Australia
17–34 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from South Australia. 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 South Australia. Sydney South Australia

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

Show all 24 locations and distances from South Australia ▾
Location Distance Est. round trip
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Sydney, Australia 1,141 km 17–34 ms
Singapore 5,459 km 82–164 ms
Hong Kong, China 6,910 km 104–207 ms
Tokyo, Japan 7,887 km 118–237 ms
Kolkata, India 8,344 km 125–250 ms
Mumbai, India 9,205 km 138–276 ms
Delhi NCR, India 9,580 km 144–287 ms
Americas · 9 locations
Santa Clara, United States 13,008 km 195–390 ms
Los Angeles, United States 13,155 km 197–395 ms
Seattle, United States 13,421 km 201–403 ms
Dallas, United States 14,946 km 224–448 ms
Chicago, United States 15,957 km 239–479 ms
Atlanta, United States 16,080 km 241–482 ms
Miami, United States 16,155 km 242–485 ms
Toronto, Canada 16,634 km 250–499 ms
New York, United States 17,089 km 256–513 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
Tel Aviv, Israel 13,160 km 197–395 ms
Bucharest, Romania 14,346 km 215–430 ms
Stockholm, Sweden 15,034 km 226–451 ms
Milan, Italy 15,677 km 235–470 ms
Frankfurt, Germany 15,714 km 236–471 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 15,949 km 239–478 ms
London, United Kingdom 16,306 km 245–489 ms
Madrid, Spain 16,703 km 251–501 ms

Distances are from South Australia. 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 South Australia

We host servers for companies throughout South Australia and the rest of Australia. 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 1,141 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 South Australia — 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 1,141 km from South Australia, an estimated 17–34 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 South Australia?
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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