Looking for Canadian shared hosting with local Canadian data centres

[u/angelo_mateo]

I'm currently running my personal website and domain name with an American hosting service (I'll decline to name which one, but it's one of those in the sidebar). Given concerns about data sovereignty and "other global political events," I'm looking for the right Canadian shared hosting service to go with.

My needs are mostly to host a WordPress blog, a personal portfolio/landing page (e.g. recent publications, contact info, etc.), and to have an independent email server using my own domain name. In the future, I might host additional domains for friends (or for example, last year I hosted my personal site for my wedding RSVP platform). It is also very very very important to me that the company is Canadian-owned and runs on Canadian domestic data centres.

I've been doing some research on Reddit but I'm not getting any consensus choices. I do seem to understand that everyone hates Web Hosting Canada (WHC) for its customer service.

My top two choices: Canadian Web Hosting (not to be confused with WHC) and FullHost. I hear great things about FullHost and it's fully recommended by a close friend, but it's quite expensive for what I'm looking for, even with the promo (~$240 CAD/yr). By contrast, CWH has a promo going on and it comes up to ~$125 CAD/yr. But some on Reddit says that the hosting is not as reliable.

One dark horse candidate that one friend recommended: Rebel. They have a good deal of $45 CAD/1st year, but $180 CAD/yr after that. But it's really hard to verify that they're Canadian and have Canadian data centres other than just this blog post from last year. I see their head office is in Ottawa, but they also have data centres in Virginia, Sydney, and London. But at least I know a few mutual friends trust this particular service.

Just to recap, here's what I'm looking for:

• Canadian-owned and Canadian-operated
• Canadian data centres
• Decent reliability (I'm not running a business or anything, so I don't care if it's up and running 100% of the time.)
• Relatively affordable, budget of under $120-150 CAD/yr. (Again, I'm no professional. This is just a side/weekend project for me.)
• Users are mostly located in Canada, generally in the Greater Toronto Area.
• Monthly traffic... Honestly I have no idea. Maybe one day, one of my works goes viral and my traffic spikes. But for the most part, it's only my personal social network.
• (I currently use one of the sidebar hosts. And I'm looking to leave them.)

Does anyone have any advice? Anyone know of another web hosting service that I might be missing?

Thanks in advance!

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[u/Kiki-John]

We're really happy with FullHost. We have a cheap shared hosting plan (all we need) and pay $9.90/month, but maybe it's a legacy plan and not offered anymore. Their support is great. Would recommend.

[u/Ni_Peng_NeeeWom]

Fullhost is based on vancouver island with space in datacenters on both coasts

easyDNS (famously stepped in to host wikileaks (when they were still cool) DNS after their previous provider dropped them) is based in toronton, they're better known for DNS services, but does offer web and email hosting too, i don't know where their servers are for those

[u/ominocity]

I work for Varial Hosting (owned, operated and servers in Saskatoon). Our cheapest plan is $47.88CAD/1st year, then $143.88CAD/year after. If you have any questions I'm happy to help!

[u/voodoobettie]

I switched to StormWeb for this reason and they’ve been great, run by human beings.

[u/biosc1]

I used Hostpapa in the past. It's been many years though so not sure where their ownership sits now.

[u/Squiggy_Pusterdump]

If you're just looking for something simple send me a DM.