Good hosting companies not named GoDaddy, preferably Canadian
 

Hey all.

Anybody running a business website with a Canadian hosting company? I need one for my consulting firm, but I'd prefer a Canadian company, mostly due to privacy laws and Google search results.

Anybody using a Canadian company?

Thanks!

Web Hosting & Domain Names - Doteasy.com
Canadian Web Hosting - Web Hosting Canada all in Canadian dollars - Plus Canada Domain Hosting Services

Do you use both of them?

Doteasy is what I've been using. At the very beginning, they were horrible to deal with, as in trying to get a hold of them. They have since gotten better over the years. I've been happy with their service. Based out of Burnaby, I believe.

How is their uptime? I'm not going to be running anything bandwidth-intensive, but 99.9% uptime is a must.

Used Canadian Web Hosting when I was working with a web design company.

Doteasy I'm currently using. Not a lot of experience with their customer service so I can't comment. But I do know that they host for NCIX and quite a few local businesses.

Good to know, thanks. Do they bill in CAD or USD?

Not a Canadian company but I am fantastically happy with Rackspace. They are extremely easy to get ahold of when you need, good product base, nice online control panel, and reasonable prices. I have taken all my business from a combination of Bell, GoDaddy, and Rackspace and consolidated with Rackspace.

Cloud Hosting, Managed Hosting and Colocation Services by PEER 1 Hosting


based out of vancouver.. did use them, now host all our web servers in dmz.

Not Canadian, but it was recommended to me in an RS thread: Stablehost.

I see their banner ad for 50% off, pop-up every so often. Their customer service is quick to respond if you have any questions. They have a very flexible control panel, too.

Well how Canadian do you want? I mean Peer1 is not quite Canadian.

Cloud solution makes privacy laws even messier. Unless your business deals with nefarious things or vices (gambling, porn etc). I won't worry too much about being in Canada or not.

If you have high volume you can go with in2net.. I think ncix runs off them or at least used to.

islandnet

Company is based in vancouver island. The biggest downtime i had was when someone accidentally cut the fibre to the building. lasted about a day but other than that no trouble at all

I use DavesNetwork - Reliable Web Hosting - Shared Hosting - Reseller Hosting - Domain Names - Information Technology been using him since he offered free hosting on RFD lol.

I always get great support whenever I need help.

I use Canadian Web Hosting, Vancouver BC Canada Web Hosting Calgary - We Serve all Canada

Local company, I think hosted in Calgary. Haven't had any downtime over the last few years.

net nation

There's no real reason to have hosting in Canada, unless you are doing something that is illegal in other countries

Google/Bing search results prioritize a Canadian DNS for local results, or so I've heard.

The might prioritize on domain name, but I doubt they would on IP address. Because most sites use a CDN anyway, so the ip for the site itself is meaningless.

Shaw also can host and support is local as well. not sure about price however.

I checked them; they are ridiculously expensive.

I'll probably get a year at an American host and see how it goes.

HostGator is cheap and fast for basic needs (IE just a single site)

Easy Website Builder, Hosting & Web Tools from Bravenet.com

Based in Parksville, Vancouver Island. Servers are co-lo'd at PEER1 in Vancouver.

Have worked for them, feel free to hit me with any questions.

Bill in USD.

ezp.net

best hoster ever.. 99.9% and i think its like 9$ a month :P

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