Canadian Tech Service Providers

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As we research various tech services we can make note of them here.

We prioritize Canadian Tech Co-Ops, this page is for listing Canadian companies and services.

Webnames

  • Domain registrar and DNS hosting – management of domains by multiple accounts.
  • Email hosting from $2.20/month
  • WordPress Hosting from $11/month

Hover

Great personal provider for domain registration.

Funio

Quebec based

  • WordPress Hosting from $1.50/month
  • Email Hosting from $2.50/month
  • Domain registration / DNS

Fullhost

https://www.fullhost.com/

  • A full suite of PaaS offerings, including managed DB and a CDN
  • Based in Victoria BC
  • Unclear whether or not they provide API access to their stack and/or Terraform capability

Servarica

  • VPS and SAN storage services with XenServer
  • Dedicated servers
  • Montreal based

Keepsec

  • Montreal based
  • Newer, smaller organization
  • Not a wealth of information on their website

ThinkOn

Web Hosting Canada

  • Montreal based
  • VPS and dedicated servers
  • No mention of other managed services on their website
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Just learned of https://www.webnames.ca. I can’t vouch for their quality, but they are Canadian owned and hosted. Reading their About page, they’ve been around for a while and managed the original .CA domain registrar. I recognize some of the founders.

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Thanks @aeisenberg — I made a new page to log Canadian services that aren’t co-ops and moved your comment here.

Thanks for the pointer — I think we’re going to be able to build up a great listing of Canadian tech resources.

I have a TechOps Internal thread where I talk about moving the blog but really it should teach me to put everything in members visible.

Here’s that thread

https://members.cosocial.ca/t/wordpress-hosting-research/113

Webnames pricing seems reasonable and should be on the list for consideration.

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They’re not a co-op, but I just switched web hosting from a US-based provider to FullHost.com (in the Calgary datacentre, but they have a few across Canada). Canadian company, not built on top of US-based cloud platforms.

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Thanks @dnorman I just upgraded your account to member so you should be able to edit.

@john just migrated some stuff to them.

Also exploring “lower level” options like hardware in the Hypha rack in Toronto.

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I suggest adding Web Hosting Canada (whc.ca) to the list. Like Funio, they are based in Montreal and have their data centres in Canada. They offer fast servers and a range of packages to suit many applications. I’ve hosted my sites with them for many years, and I’ve been happy with their services and tech support. I can recommend them. :grinning: I also use them as my domain registrar, and I’ve found their prices to be competitive.

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Another interesting company is 5centsCDN, which provide CDN services. They seem to be geared towards video delivery but there are other normal CDN’ey stuff that are offered. Prices seem fair.

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