Woodlawn, Canada

Chat Software VPS in Woodlawn

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
Woodlawn and its closest data centre Woodlawn joined by a link to the New York data centre, 962 km away. Woodlawn New York New York, United States
962 km from Woodlawn
14–29 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Woodlawn. 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 New York marked as the closest to Woodlawn. New York Woodlawn

Woodlawn is closest to New York. Every marker costs the same per month.

Show all 24 locations and distances from Woodlawn ▾
Location Distance Est. round trip
Americas · 9 locations
New York, United States 962 km 14–29 ms
Toronto, Canada 1,268 km 19–38 ms
Chicago, United States 1,968 km 30–59 ms
Atlanta, United States 2,159 km 32–65 ms
Miami, United States 2,580 km 39–77 ms
Dallas, United States 3,146 km 47–94 ms
Seattle, United States 4,432 km 66–133 ms
Los Angeles, United States 4,756 km 71–143 ms
Santa Clara, United States 4,863 km 73–146 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
London, United Kingdom 4,619 km 69–139 ms
Madrid, Spain 4,813 km 72–144 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 4,919 km 74–148 ms
Frankfurt, Germany 5,254 km 79–158 ms
Stockholm, Sweden 5,434 km 82–163 ms
Milan, Italy 5,505 km 83–165 ms
Bucharest, Romania 6,705 km 101–201 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel 8,157 km 122–245 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Tokyo, Japan 10,780 km 162–323 ms
Delhi NCR, India 10,961 km 164–329 ms
Mumbai, India 11,663 km 175–350 ms
Kolkata, India 12,011 km 180–360 ms
Hong Kong, China 12,562 km 188–377 ms
Singapore 14,746 km 221–442 ms
Sydney, Australia 16,822 km 252–505 ms

Distances are from Woodlawn. 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 Woodlawn

We host servers for companies throughout Woodlawn, NS and the rest of Canada. 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.

New York is our closest location at 962 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 Woodlawn — 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. New York is 962 km from Woodlawn, an estimated 14–29 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 Woodlawn?
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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