Whanganui, New Zealand

Chat Software VPS in Whanganui

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
Whanganui and its closest data centre Whanganui joined by a link to the Sydney data centre, 2,217 km away. Whanganui Sydney New South Wales, Australia
2,217 km from Whanganui
33–67 ms estimated round trip

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

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

Show all 24 locations and distances from Whanganui ▾
Location Distance Est. round trip
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Sydney, Australia 2,217 km 33–67 ms
Singapore 8,519 km 128–256 ms
Tokyo, Japan 9,155 km 137–275 ms
Hong Kong, China 9,360 km 140–281 ms
Kolkata, India 11,326 km 170–340 ms
Mumbai, India 12,371 km 186–371 ms
Delhi NCR, India 12,604 km 189–378 ms
Americas · 9 locations
Los Angeles, United States 10,698 km 160–321 ms
Santa Clara, United States 10,727 km 161–322 ms
Seattle, United States 11,527 km 173–346 ms
Dallas, United States 12,128 km 182–364 ms
Miami, United States 13,016 km 195–390 ms
Atlanta, United States 13,150 km 197–394 ms
Chicago, United States 13,353 km 200–401 ms
Toronto, Canada 14,044 km 211–421 ms
New York, United States 14,321 km 215–430 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
Tel Aviv, Israel 16,368 km 246–491 ms
Stockholm, Sweden 17,324 km 260–520 ms
Bucharest, Romania 17,424 km 261–523 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 18,441 km 277–553 ms
Frankfurt, Germany 18,461 km 277–554 ms
London, United Kingdom 18,676 km 280–560 ms
Milan, Italy 18,709 km 281–561 ms
Madrid, Spain 19,896 km 298–597 ms

Distances are from Whanganui. 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 Whanganui

We host servers for companies throughout Whanganui, Manawatu-Wanganui 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 2,217 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 Whanganui — 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 2,217 km from Whanganui, an estimated 33–67 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 Whanganui?
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.

Other servers in Whanganui

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