Weston, United States

Chat Software VPS in Weston

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
Weston and its closest data centre Weston joined by a link to the Chicago data centre, 369 km away. Weston Chicago Illinois, United States
369 km from Weston
6–11 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Weston. 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.

Americas coverage 9 live
Americas data centre locations 9 locations across Americas, with Chicago marked as the closest to Weston. Chicago Weston

Weston is closest to Chicago. Every marker costs the same per month.

Show all 24 locations and distances from Weston ▾
Location Distance Est. round trip
Americas · 9 locations
Chicago, United States 369 km 6–11 ms
Toronto, Canada 820 km 12–25 ms
Atlanta, United States 1,315 km 20–39 ms
New York, United States 1,348 km 20–40 ms
Dallas, United States 1,485 km 22–45 ms
Miami, United States 2,286 km 34–69 ms
Seattle, United States 2,520 km 38–76 ms
Los Angeles, United States 2,723 km 41–82 ms
Santa Clara, United States 2,820 km 42–85 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
London, United Kingdom 6,245 km 94–187 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 6,484 km 97–195 ms
Stockholm, Sweden 6,689 km 100–201 ms
Madrid, Spain 6,696 km 100–201 ms
Frankfurt, Germany 6,843 km 103–205 ms
Milan, Italy 7,193 km 108–216 ms
Bucharest, Romania 8,233 km 123–247 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel 9,776 km 147–293 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Tokyo, Japan 9,781 km 147–293 ms
Delhi NCR, India 11,744 km 176–352 ms
Hong Kong, China 12,164 km 182–365 ms
Kolkata, India 12,511 km 188–375 ms
Mumbai, India 12,683 km 190–380 ms
Singapore 14,706 km 221–441 ms
Sydney, Australia 14,777 km 222–443 ms

Distances are from Weston. 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 Weston

We host servers for companies throughout Weston, WI 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 369 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 Weston — 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. Chicago is 369 km from Weston, an estimated 6–11 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 Weston?
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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