Whangarei, New Zealand

Chat Software VPS in Whangarei

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
Whangarei and its closest data centre Whangarei joined by a link to the Sydney data centre, 2,116 km away. Whangarei Sydney New South Wales, Australia
2,116 km from Whangarei
32–63 ms estimated round trip

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

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

Show all 24 locations and distances from Whangarei ▾
Location Distance Est. round trip
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Sydney, Australia 2,116 km 32–63 ms
Singapore 8,351 km 125–251 ms
Tokyo, Japan 8,713 km 131–261 ms
Hong Kong, China 9,036 km 136–271 ms
Kolkata, India 11,105 km 167–333 ms
Mumbai, India 12,239 km 184–367 ms
Delhi NCR, India 12,388 km 186–372 ms
Americas · 9 locations
Santa Clara, United States 10,445 km 157–313 ms
Los Angeles, United States 10,447 km 157–313 ms
Seattle, United States 11,198 km 168–336 ms
Dallas, United States 11,967 km 180–359 ms
Miami, United States 12,974 km 195–389 ms
Atlanta, United States 13,028 km 195–391 ms
Chicago, United States 13,157 km 197–395 ms
Toronto, Canada 13,855 km 208–416 ms
New York, United States 14,172 km 213–425 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
Tel Aviv, Israel 16,286 km 244–489 ms
Stockholm, Sweden 16,880 km 253–506 ms
Bucharest, Romania 17,165 km 257–515 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 17,986 km 270–540 ms
Frankfurt, Germany 18,042 km 271–541 ms
London, United Kingdom 18,206 km 273–546 ms
Milan, Italy 18,363 km 275–551 ms
Madrid, Spain 19,466 km 292–584 ms

Distances are from Whangarei. 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 Whangarei

We host servers for companies throughout Whangarei, Northland 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 2,116 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 Whangarei — 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 2,116 km from Whangarei, an estimated 32–63 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 Whangarei?
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 Whangarei

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