Tauranga, New Zealand

Chat Software VPS in Tauranga

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
Tauranga and its closest data centre Tauranga joined by a link to the Sydney data centre, 2,284 km away. Tauranga Sydney New South Wales, Australia
2,284 km from Tauranga
34–69 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Tauranga. 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 Tauranga. Sydney Tauranga

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

Show all 24 locations and distances from Tauranga ▾
Location Distance Est. round trip
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Sydney, Australia 2,284 km 34–69 ms
Singapore 8,558 km 128–257 ms
Tokyo, Japan 8,983 km 135–269 ms
Hong Kong, China 9,295 km 139–279 ms
Kolkata, India 11,334 km 170–340 ms
Mumbai, India 12,434 km 187–373 ms
Delhi NCR, India 12,616 km 189–378 ms
Americas · 9 locations
Los Angeles, United States 10,462 km 157–314 ms
Santa Clara, United States 10,482 km 157–314 ms
Seattle, United States 11,270 km 169–338 ms
Dallas, United States 11,926 km 179–358 ms
Miami, United States 12,866 km 193–386 ms
Atlanta, United States 12,964 km 194–389 ms
Chicago, United States 13,138 km 197–394 ms
Toronto, Canada 13,832 km 207–415 ms
New York, United States 14,125 km 212–424 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
Tel Aviv, Israel 16,464 km 247–494 ms
Stockholm, Sweden 17,147 km 257–514 ms
Bucharest, Romania 17,412 km 261–522 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 18,247 km 274–547 ms
Frankfurt, Germany 18,313 km 275–549 ms
London, United Kingdom 18,451 km 277–554 ms
Milan, Italy 18,632 km 279–559 ms
Madrid, Spain 19,711 km 296–591 ms

Distances are from Tauranga. 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 Tauranga

We host servers for companies throughout Tauranga, Bay of Plenty 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 2,284 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 Tauranga — 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 2,284 km from Tauranga, an estimated 34–69 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 Tauranga?
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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