Urbandale, United States
Chat Software VPS in Urbandale
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 Urbandale. 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.
Urbandale is closest to Chicago. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Urbandale ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Chicago, United States | 505 km | 8–15 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,021 km | 15–31 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 1,192 km | 18–36 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 1,199 km | 18–36 ms |
| New York, United States | 1,649 km | 25–49 ms |
| Miami, United States | 2,157 km | 32–65 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 2,303 km | 35–69 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 2,346 km | 35–70 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 2,458 km | 37–74 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 6,739 km | 101–202 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 6,979 km | 105–209 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 7,171 km | 108–215 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 7,177 km | 108–215 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 7,338 km | 110–220 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 7,686 km | 115–231 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 8,727 km | 131–262 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 10,271 km | 154–308 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 9,848 km | 148–295 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 12,160 km | 182–365 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 12,347 km | 185–370 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 12,873 km | 193–386 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 13,125 km | 197–394 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 14,377 km | 216–431 ms |
| Singapore | 14,920 km | 224–448 ms |
Distances are from Urbandale. 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 Urbandale
We host servers for companies throughout Urbandale, IA 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.
Chicago is our closest location at 505 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 Urbandale — FAQs
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