Looking for Budget Shared Hosting in Canada

darkh0rse

Hello,

I am looking to see if anyone has low-cost shared hosting recommendations in Canada, at a minimum with the following specs?

• Min 15GB Storage (SSD, No HDD)
• Min 3 Websites & 3 Databases
• Email
• Free SSL
• Weekly Backups

So far I have found Servarica in Montreal, with their "Shared Hosting Plan - SSD PLUS" at $49 CAD/year, but would like to see if there are any offers lower than that.

emg88

Why does it have to be in Canada? You shouldn't care where it is, it doesn't matter much anyway

fluffernutter

Servarica is great, I'd just stop looking. If you can live with the site being hosted outside of Canada, @speedypage offers free BunnyCDN with several CDN nodes in Canada. Depends if it's a performance requirement or a legal requirement, but both are solid providers.

homelabber

@emg88 said:
Why does it have to be in Canada? You shouldn't care where it is, it doesn't matter much anyway

Unless you're using a CDN, it totally matters. If most of your visitors are going to be from Canada, a Canadian host will serve the website faster than a hosting provider from Australia (unless the Canadian host is shiat).

alt_

You may wanna try OVH shared hosting (Quebec) https://ovhcloud.com/en-ca/web-hosting/shared-hosting/

darkh0rse

@fluffernutter said:
Servarica is great, I'd just stop looking. If you can live with the site being hosted outside of Canada, @speedypage offers free BunnyCDN with several CDN nodes in Canada. Depends if it's a performance requirement or a legal requirement, but both are solid providers.

Thanks! Looks like we're going to go ahead with Servarica for this one.

@homelabber said:

@emg88 said:
Why does it have to be in Canada? You shouldn't care where it is, it doesn't matter much anyway

Unless you're using a CDN, it totally matters. If most of your visitors are going to be from Canada, a Canadian host will serve the website faster than a hosting provider from Australia (unless the Canadian host is shiat).

That has been our primary reason. Most of this site's users are in Canada, and with it being low volume don't see the point in complicating it with a CDN.

darkh0rse

@alt_ said:
You may wanna try OVH shared hosting (Quebec) https://ovhcloud.com/en-ca/web-hosting/shared-hosting/

Thanks, unfortunately, not a fan of the routing that OVH has with the major ISPs on the west coast from Quebec. The traffic ends up hopping across the border into the US, at which point might as well get hosting there.

ericls

@homelabber said:

@emg88 said:
Why does it have to be in Canada? You shouldn't care where it is, it doesn't matter much anyway

Unless you're using a CDN, it totally matters. If most of your visitors are going to be from Canada, a Canadian host will serve the website faster than a hosting provider from Australia (unless the Canadian host is shiat).

Also data laws?

homelabber

@ericls said:

@homelabber said:

@emg88 said:
Why does it have to be in Canada? You shouldn't care where it is, it doesn't matter much anyway

Unless you're using a CDN, it totally matters. If most of your visitors are going to be from Canada, a Canadian host will serve the website faster than a hosting provider from Australia (unless the Canadian host is shiat).

Also data laws?

True, since they are asking for a shared hosting I was assuming it was for a landing page or a blog, but since they say they're going to have databases they may have users.

I'm not familiar with Canadian laws but if they're similar to EU's GDPR, then they totally need a Canadian hosting provider for simplicity.

belinik

crocweb comes to mind if you can commit multi-year, used them for many years.