Hey! It’s my first post!
I have a few websites that are hosted in the USA. I’m going to move them all to Canadian hosts. I’m looking for recommendations for hosting companies in Canada that are owned by Canadians. I’ve look at a few but first hand experience is always welcome.
Most of my sites are just basic html/css/javascript but one of them is a wordpress storefront. I specifically need the Wordpress site to be as fast as possible - a difficult task for wordpress, I know.
Also, glad to see this community! Great stuff!
If you’re fine to either get your hands dirty, or a kind friend’s, check out Xenyth Hosting
I signed for Xenyth a couple months ago and it took them 8 business days from the time that I signed up, to the time that they “approved” my account and I could log in and provision services. I can’t imagine this company will still be around in a few years.
Honestly, this entire thread is depressing. None of these companies compete with US or European cloud providers. They either have websites designed in 1992, are IT service companies masquerading as PaaS, seem to be poorly run, or their pricing is terrible.
They run a Tier 2 networking service, including peering with a lot of big exchanges. They’ll be around for a while… And have been so far…
Hetzner does the same shit for ID verification/provisioning, it’s all related to anti spam and anti malicious use.
I host at home but use Xenyth as a reverse proxy, that’s honestly what many people who are comfortable to run their own server should do; protect your home IP.
Yeah, but Hetzner’s physical address on their website isn’t a PO box…
What a weird thing to focus on, are you planning to go visit your VPS in person?
GoCode is the parent company, and you can see they offer colo in an Equinox datacenter. I imagine this might be a one person contracting team that uses a PO Box for home address privacy (as I do myself for my business purposes)
Here’s a great company! Peaceworks Technology Solutions
- Living Wage Certified
- B Corp Certified
I hadn’t come across this one when I was searching around, thank you! They look cool!
Come across this in the past:
This might be my choice. I’m going to do more reading.
Yes, been using them for years. No real complaints. They are very quick to get back if you need support.
Have a look at CanSpace.ca. I transferred my domains from GoDaddy last year.
They have been reliable and I feel good that I am supporting a Canadian shop.
When I needed to contact CanSpace support, they were responsive, friendly and knowledgeable.
My requirements are basic, so I can’t comment on WordPress performance. With this being said, my experience with everything else for me has been awesome. No regrets!
For any others considering making the switch, do your homework but they’re a good option.
At this point I’ve decided to migrate away from WordPress. I should have a while ago.
CanSpace.ca looks really cool, thanks for suggesting it!
Have you considered hosting from your home? Or do you have uptime SLOs? I host from home on Bell and I maintain 99.9% uptime.
I have considered this! And I used to back in the day! I haven’t completely ruled it out, and I probably could cobble together a Frankenstein box, though I’m not sure the performance would be enough (the only extra MOBO/CPU I have is an ancient Core2Duo). Also, I wonder if the electricity cost would be more than $10/month. I should do some math…
I’ve worked with hostpapa on very small projects years ago, so I can’t speak to their capacity to operate on high powered commercial projects… But they’ve been around for a long time,at least. My experience with them was good!
The sites I run don’t get too much traffic, but performance is still important. When I looked into hostpapa I saw a lot of bad reviews online. You can’t believe everything you read, though it’s enough to keep me cautious.
I looked into this, because I was curious.
Sounds like the common thread in all the complaints revolve around HostPapa being unable to handle the constant barrage of pen-testing that a WordPress site gets exposed to, and trying to alleviate by forcing WP sites off shared hosting.
So, ya, if you’re running a WP site, would not recommend. By my read, it’s probably a legitimate issue and users are probably not overreacting.
I’ve never ran anything aside from bespoke PHP on hostpapa, and I had no issues with that… But honestly my read of the WP situation would scare me off HostPapa for sure.
Sounds like I need to migrate away from wordpress. Which I kind of already knew.
My experience as well. Other hosting providers as well though. WP is the big target. I haven’t recommended it for a decade.
Someone had mentioned Websavers.ca in a previous thread.
Which ISP service does lemmy.ca use?
They’re colocation in a BC datacenter. So likely not what you’re looking for unless you have hardware to use, and just are looking for rack space.
Was there anything wrong with the ones you’ve looked at?
Probably nitpicks, but I found a lot of the ones I came across charged an extra $50/year for a LetsEncrypt SSL cert which rubs me wrong since LetsEncrypt is free. A few others I found claimed to be Canadian and even had their offices in Canada but were ultimately American owned, which is a dealbreaker for me.
I do have a shortlist of a few, but I want to be thorough since whoever I pick I’ll probably be with indefinitely.
I think I have LetsEncrypt at no extra charge with mine (zenutech.ca) They’re based in New Brunswick and as far as I know they’re Canadian owned.
I hadn’t found that one yet! Thank you!
