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They want production servers close to their first Canadian users without paying cloud egress fees.
CA DC I pairs NVMe and ECC memory with unlimited bandwidth, so growth in traffic does not change the monthly bill.
Toronto, Montreal or Vancouver · KVM NVMe
Host on KVM virtual servers in Toronto, Montreal or Vancouver with NVMe storage, free DDoS protection and ports up to 2 Gbps. Canadian plans start at $17.99 a month, Linux and Windows cost the same on most tiers, and proxy, gaming and reseller workloads are welcome.
The standout on this page is the CA DC I Toronto line. Every one of its ten plans pairs ECC memory with NVMe storage, a 1 Gbps port and unlimited bandwidth, from the $19 entry plan with 2 vCores up to the $286 plan with 24 vCores, 32 GB ECC RAM and 410 GB NVMe. ECC memory corrects single-bit errors before they reach your database, which matters for stores and SaaS apps that write data all day. Because nine of the ten plans support both Linux and Windows at the same price, you can scale from a small test VM to a large production server without changing data center or operating system.
Canada's large data-center infrastructure keeps bandwidth and hardware costs relatively low, so a virtual server here can include more traffic, better equipment and fast internet for the money. We list three lines for different businesses: CA DC I in Toronto with ECC NVMe and unlimited bandwidth from $19, CA DC II in Montreal or Vancouver with metered SSD plans from $17.99, and CA DC III in Toronto with ports from 250 Mbps to 2 Gbps and IPv6. Hosting companies can also order a VM here to resell as shared hosting packages.
| CPU Cores | RAM | Storage | Bandwidth | Port | OS | Price | Order |
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| vCore x2 | 2 GB ECC | 40 GB NVMe | Unlimited | 1 Gbps | $19 / Month | Order Now | |
| vCore x2 | 4 GB ECC | 60 GB NVMe | Unlimited | 1 Gbps | $35 / Month | Order Now | |
| vCore x4 | 6 GB ECC | 70 GB NVMe | Unlimited | 1 Gbps | $47 / Month | Order Now | |
| vCore x4 | 8 GB ECC | 90 GB NVMe | Unlimited | 1 Gbps | $71 / Month | Order Now | |
| vCore x6 | 10 GB ECC | 100 GB NVMe | Unlimited | 1 Gbps | $96 / Month | Order Now | |
| vCore x8 | 12 GB ECC | 150 GB NVMe | Unlimited | 1 Gbps | $134 / Month | Order Now | |
| vCore x10 | 14 GB ECC | 170 GB NVMe | Unlimited | 1 Gbps | $163 / Month | Order Now | |
| vCore x16 | 16 GB ECC | 210 GB NVMe | Unlimited | 1 Gbps | $194 / Month | Order Now | |
| vCore x20 | 24 GB ECC | 310 GB NVMe | Unlimited | 1 Gbps | $242 / Month | Order Now | |
| vCore x24 | 32 GB ECC | 410 GB NVMe | Unlimited | 1 Gbps | $286 / Month | Order Now |
State-of-the-art data center offering Tier III+ virtualization with KVM, NVMe, and Linux and Windows at the same cost.
| CPU Cores | RAM | SSD Storage | Port | Bandwidth | OS | Price | Order |
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| 01 | 1 GB | 30 GB | 1 Gbps | 1500 GB | $17.99 / Month | Order Now | |
| 02 | 2 GB | 40 GB | 1 Gbps | 2000 GB | $28.99 / Month | Order Now | |
| 04 | 2 GB | 20 GB | 1 Gbps | 2500 GB | $37.99 / Month | Order Now | |
| 02 | 2 GB | 80 GB | 1 Gbps | 2500 GB | $47.99 / Month | Order Now | |
| 03 | 3 GB | 60 GB | 1 Gbps | 2500 GB | $56.99 / Month | Order Now | |
| 04 | 4 GB | 80 GB | 1 Gbps | 4000 GB | $65.99 / Month | Order Now |
Online success without straining your budget.
| Processor | RAM | Storage | Bandwidth | Port | IPv6 | OS | Price | Order |
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| 1 vCore | 2 GB | 40 GB SSD NVMe | Unlimited | 250 Mbps | /128 | $19 / Month | Order Now | |
| 2 vCore | 4 GB | 80 GB SSD NVMe | Unlimited | 500 Mbps | /128 | $39 / Month | Order Now | |
| 4 vCore | 8 GB | 160 GB SSD NVMe | Unlimited | 1 Gbps | /128 | $76 / Month | Order Now | |
| 8 vCore | 8 GB | 160 GB SSD NVMe | Unlimited | 2 Gbps | /128 | $105 / Month | Order Now | |
| 8 vCore | 16 GB | 320 GB SSD NVMe | Unlimited | 2 Gbps | /128 | $177 / Month | Order Now |
Once your allocated monthly bandwidth is consumed, the internet port is automatically reduced to 10 Mbps for the remaining days.
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They want production servers close to their first Canadian users without paying cloud egress fees.
CA DC I pairs NVMe and ECC memory with unlimited bandwidth, so growth in traffic does not change the monthly bill.
They need a Canadian point of presence to serve new customers north of the border.
Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver options let them pick the province that matches their first market, with Linux or Windows.
They host client sites for local businesses and want a low fixed cost.
The CA DC II Linux plans start under $18 a month and still include a 1 Gbps port.
Canada is a stable, peaceful country with a highly literate, multilingual population of around 40 million, many of them skilled immigrants from every part of the world. Incomes are high, people spend and invest online, and the country is one of the larger data-center markets in the world, which tells you its IT sector is mature and still growing. For a brand that wants a Canadian presence, it is a market worth taking seriously.
The most effective way to build that presence is to host locally. A server inside Canada loads faster for Canadian visitors and signals to customers that you are serious about serving them, which helps build trust.
We do not recommend going online with shared hosting for this. It is cheap, but it comes with real limits: you are not a dedicated user, you cannot install the features you want, you cannot make core changes, and you have little control over resources. A Canada VPS gives you dedicated resources, direct dealings with the provider running the hardware, and full control, for a price close to a premium shared hosting plan.
Our Canadian virtual servers run on KVM with NVMe storage and are available in Toronto, Montreal or Vancouver, so you can place your machine near the audience that matters most to you.
Our Canadian plans span three cities, and each serves a slightly different audience. Toronto is Canada's largest city and financial center, the home of the country's main stock exchange and a dense network of carriers. A Toronto VPS is well placed for Ontario, the Great Lakes region and the US Northeast and Midwest, including New York and Chicago.
Montreal is the heart of French-speaking Quebec and a major hub for gaming studios, artificial intelligence research and media. It is the natural choice for bilingual or French-language services. Our original Canadian offering came from Beauharnois, a high-standard facility south-west of Montreal, and the CA DC II line is provisioned in Montreal or Vancouver.
Vancouver sits on the Pacific coast in British Columbia. It serves western Canada and the US Pacific Northwest, and it is the Canadian city closest to Asia-Pacific routes, which helps projects with users on both sides of the Pacific.
Time zones follow geography: Toronto and Montreal use Eastern Time, while Vancouver uses Pacific Time, three hours behind. If you run scheduled jobs or maintenance windows, set your server clock to the zone of your main audience so quiet hours really are quiet.
CA DC I - TORONTO is the broadest line, with ten plans that all include ECC memory, NVMe storage, unlimited bandwidth and a 1 Gbps port. It runs in a state-of-the-art data center with Tier III+ virtualization on KVM, and Linux and Windows cost the same on every plan except the entry tier.
The entry plan offers 2 vCores, 2 GB ECC RAM and 40 GB NVMe for $19 a month on Linux. From there, 2 vCores with 4 GB and 60 GB cost $35, 4 vCores with 6 GB and 70 GB cost $47, and 4 vCores with 8 GB and 90 GB cost $71. These sizes are ideal for WordPress, Laravel or Node.js applications, a Windows RDP workstation or a small game server.
Growing projects can move to 6 vCores with 10 GB and 100 GB at $96, 8 vCores with 12 GB and 150 GB at $134, or 10 vCores with 14 GB and 170 GB at $163. At the top, 16 vCores with 16 GB and 210 GB cost $194, 20 vCores with 24 GB and 310 GB cost $242, and 24 vCores with 32 GB and 410 GB cost $286.
Those larger plans are what hosting resellers usually pick. With unlimited traffic, NVMe disks and enough cores to isolate many accounts, a single Toronto VM can carry a full shared hosting business under cPanel/WHM or Plesk.
CA DC II - MONTREAL OR VANCOUVER is our most affordable Canadian line, built so you can get online without straining your budget. All plans run Linux on SSD storage with a 1 Gbps port and a fixed monthly transfer allowance.
The entry plan gives you 1 core, 1 GB RAM, 30 GB SSD and 1,500 GB of traffic for $17.99, the lowest price on this page. Next is 2 cores, 2 GB, 40 GB and 2,000 GB at $28.99, a comfortable size for a business website, a VPN server or a Discord bot.
Two plans trade storage for CPU or the other way around. The 4-core, 2 GB, 20 GB plan at $37.99 suits compute-heavy jobs such as build runners, scrapers or game logic, while the 2-core, 2 GB, 80 GB plan at $47.99 suits file storage and media. Both include 2,500 GB of transfer.
The top of the line offers 3 cores, 3 GB and 60 GB with 2,500 GB at $56.99, and 4 cores, 4 GB and 80 GB with 4,000 GB at $65.99. Choose the city closest to your users when ordering: Montreal for eastern Canada and Quebec, Vancouver for the west coast.
CA DC III - TORONTO is the line for projects that need a specific network speed. Each plan includes SSD NVMe storage, bandwidth listed as unlimited, a dedicated IPv6 /128 address and both Linux and Windows. The port speed grows with the plan, from 250 Mbps up to 2 Gbps.
The smallest plan gives you 1 vCore, 2 GB RAM and 40 GB NVMe on a 250 Mbps port for $19. Next, 2 vCores with 4 GB and 80 GB on a 500 Mbps port costs $39, and 4 vCores with 8 GB and 160 GB on a full 1 Gbps port costs $76.
The two largest plans run on 2 Gbps ports. 8 vCores with 8 GB and 160 GB cost $105, and 8 vCores with 16 GB and 320 GB cost $177. These are strong choices for proxy networks, streaming relays, download mirrors and game servers with many concurrent players, where throughput matters as much as CPU.
One rule applies to this line: once you consume the allocated monthly bandwidth, the internet port is automatically reduced to 10 Mbps for the remaining days of the month. Keep an eye on usage, and contact us before a big launch if you expect a traffic spike.
If you care about latency, want websites that load quickly according to search engine guidelines, need fast data transfer to and from a specific region, or simply want to deploy software locally for the Canadian market, a server inside the country is the answer.
Canada's major cities are close to the main US population centers. Toronto is a short network hop from New York, Chicago and the US Northeast; Montreal is close to Boston and New England; Vancouver is close to Seattle and the Pacific Northwest. That means one Canadian VPS can serve both Canadian customers and a large share of the US market with low round-trip times.
Our servers connect through well-known local internet providers with gigabit-class data transfer ports, and the hardware is chosen for consistent performance rather than peak marketing numbers. NVMe storage keeps disk access fast, so database queries and dynamic pages respond quickly once requests reach the server.
For audiences further away, such as Europe or Latin America, put a CDN in front of your Canadian origin. Static files are cached near visitors, while the dynamic parts of the site continue to run from Toronto, Montreal or Vancouver.
Canada's two official languages also matter for performance in practice. Bilingual sites often serve separate English and French versions, and hosting both from the same Canadian server keeps them equally fast for Ontario and Quebec visitors while simplifying caching and deployment.
For Linux you can choose CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, Arch Linux or FreeBSD. Every Linux server comes with full root access, so you can build any stack you need, from a classic LAMP setup for PHP and MySQL to Docker, Kubernetes nodes, Python APIs or a mail server.
Windows Server 2016 and 2019 are available on plans that support Windows. By default, machines are provisioned as a plain system, and you can add a Windows Server license as an add-on while ordering. You then log in over RDP as the full Administrator.
Mixed environments are common in Canada. A company might run a .NET and MSSQL application for its accounting team on a Windows plan in Toronto, and a PHP/MySQL website plus a Linux VPN gateway on separate Linux plans. Because Linux and Windows are priced the same on CA DC I and CA DC III, you can choose the right OS for each job without paying a premium.
If you change your mind later, reinstall the server with another operating system. Back up your data first, because a reinstall wipes the disk.
Unlike many data centers around the world, which restrict usage through their own terms, capacity or local laws, our Canadian platform gives you broad freedom to use your machine for any legitimate purpose. You can turn it into a proxy, web, file, CDN, game or email server, or anything else your project needs.
Gamers and community operators use Toronto and Montreal plans to host Minecraft, Rust, CS2 or Valheim servers close to North American players. The CA DC III 2 Gbps tiers are particularly useful for busy communities and voice servers.
Proxy and VPN operators value Canadian IP addresses, unlimited traffic and high port speeds. Up to five additional IPv4 addresses can be added to a server, which helps when you need several exit points, although we may ask you to explain the intended usage in certain cases.
Web hosting companies order Canadian VMs to resell as shared hosting. A large CA DC I plan with cPanel/WHM or Plesk can host dozens of client accounts on NVMe storage. If your customers would rather not manage anything themselves, point them to our shared web hosting in Canada instead.
Once you pay the amount for your order, processing begins. Orders are handled in sequence, and when your turn in the queue comes, the virtual machine is installed and the login details are emailed to you. Most customers can start working on their Canadian server soon after payment.
Each server includes the resources listed in the plan table, and CA DC III plans also include an IPv6 /128 address. Extra IPv4 and IPv6 addresses can be ordered as add-ons, with a maximum of five additional IPv4 addresses per server. For larger IP needs, talk to us about your use case first.
Paid backups and additional storage can be added when your data grows faster than your CPU and memory needs. That is often cheaper than moving to a larger plan just for disk space, and it keeps your data safer at the same time.
You can upgrade as your project grows, moving to more cores, RAM or a faster port. Our team handles after-sales questions quickly, aiming to answer or fix basic issues within minutes to hours, so you can focus on your business rather than hosting technicalities.
Three Canadian plan lines across Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver cover very different jobs. These are the workloads that match each one best.
Shops selling to Quebec need French and English versions of every page, and that doubles the catalog the server has to render. A Toronto CA DC I plan with 4 vCores and 8 GB ECC memory gives a WooCommerce or Magento store room for both language trees, while unlimited bandwidth means a busy long weekend sale does not push you into overage.
Software companies in Toronto and Waterloo often need application servers that sit near their own staff and their first Canadian customers. The larger CA DC I plans scale to 24 vCores and 32 GB ECC RAM on NVMe, enough for an API tier, a Postgres instance and a job queue on one KVM machine before you split services apart.
A hosting reseller targeting Canadian small businesses can add a WHM/cPanel or Plesk Obsidian license to a Toronto plan and sell shared accounts from it. Unlimited traffic on CA DC I keeps per-account margins predictable, and the 410 GB NVMe option on the top tier leaves space for dozens of client sites and their mailboxes.
If your readers or customers are in Vancouver, Victoria or the Okanagan, the CA DC II line lets you place a Linux server on the Pacific side instead of in Ontario. Plans start at $17.99 with a 1 Gbps port, a practical choice for a regional news site, a BC tourism portal or a property listing service.
Minecraft, Rust and Valheim communities with players across Ontario, Quebec and the US Northeast benefit from a server in Toronto. The CA DC III plans with 8 vCores and a 2 Gbps port handle player spikes on event nights, and the /128 IPv6 allocation is ready for players connecting from IPv6-only networks.
Canadian firms running ASP.NET portals or SQL Server reporting tools can choose Windows Server 2016 or 2019 on CA DC I or CA DC III. Windows costs the same as Linux on those lines before the license add-on, so accounting firms and distributors can move a desktop-bound app to a Toronto server without a separate Windows price table.
Run through these Canada-specific points so the plan you pick matches how you will use it.
Most Canadians live within a few hundred kilometers of the US border, and the three Canadian locations follow that pattern. Toronto covers the Windsor to Quebec City corridor and sits a short hop from New York, Chicago and the US Northeast. Montreal adds a natural home for French-language audiences in Quebec and the Maritimes. Vancouver serves British Columbia and the US Pacific Northwest, and it is the better starting point if your users lean toward Seattle or Asia-Pacific routes. Eastern Canada is also a reasonable launch point for transatlantic traffic toward Western Europe.
Every Canadian virtual server is built on the same set of protections and performance features, whichever city or plan you choose.
Protection against distributed denial-of-service attacks is included at no charge. It adds another layer of peace of mind, keeping your Canadian websites and applications available even when someone tries to flood them with traffic.
A Tier III+ data center lets us apply strong internal security, with best practices for protecting data in transit through standard equipment, switches and internal firewalls.
Advanced monitoring keeps an eye on machine performance at all times, helping us spot problems early and deliver the 99.9% SLA listed for our Canadian platform.
Connections run through well-known local providers. Depending on the plan, you get a 250 Mbps, 500 Mbps, 1 Gbps or 2 Gbps port, with unlimited traffic on CA DC I and CA DC III.
Every instance is delivered with a fully authorized user, root on Linux and Administrator on Windows, so you can run any core-level command without waiting for our help.
KVM partitions each machine at the kernel level, giving you your own kernel and virtual hardware for better security and support for Windows, Docker and custom kernel modules.
CA DC I and CA DC III plans run on NVMe storage, with SSD on CA DC II. Fast disks keep page loads, database queries and backups quick.
Our Canadian VMs are hosted in a well-equipped data center with multiple power, cooling and internet backups, on heavy-duty servers built from hardware with proven long-term records.
As with every location where we provision VMs, we researched and selected a top-rated Tier III facility for Canada, then built a range of plans with varied resources and prices. Whether you host a .NET/MSSQL application, a PHP/MySQL project, a gaming or proxy server, or a complex networking solution, we can help with customization.
Security is built in through internal firewalls and DDoS protection that keep intruders away from your code. All these practices and precautions aim for the highest possible availability, so you can focus on your business rather than on hosting technicalities.
We rely on KVM, the industry's leading virtualization technology, which partitions machines at the kernel level for secure use. Linux and Windows can be selected while configuring your instance, and NVMe storage, fast ISP connections and a wide range of resources keep your applications responsive. After the sale, our team answers questions and fixes basic issues quickly.
We have been in the virtual server business long enough to know where money is wasted. Instead of expensive machinery with no extra benefit, we deploy quality hardware brands at sensible cost, which lets us sell at some of the lowest rates in the industry without compromising quality, performance or reliability.
Every part of the chain, from servers to routers, cables and security devices, has a proven record for long-lasting use. We also keep margins close to cost so we can sell more at lower prices rather than loading charges onto clients. Try a Canadian VM with us and judge the value for yourself.
If you are short of resources even on the largest Canadian VPS plan, or you want to run your own virtualization on hardware in the Americas, the next step is a dedicated machine with all of its CPU, RAM and disk reserved for you.
Our dedicated server hosting in Brazil is the bare-metal option we recommend for this, especially for projects that also serve Latin America. Many customers keep a Toronto VPS for North American users and run the heavy back end on a dedicated server. If you need more virtual capacity in the region, our USA VPS plans pair naturally with a Canadian node.
Send us your expected traffic, storage and CPU needs, and we will suggest whether a larger Canadian VPS, a second virtual node or a dedicated machine is the more economical route.
Toronto CA DC I for unlimited NVMe, CA DC II in Montreal or Vancouver for low-cost Linux, or Toronto CA DC III for a specific port speed.
Select a Linux distribution or Windows Server 2016/2019, then add IPs, backups, storage or a control panel license.
Once payment is confirmed, your order is processed in sequence and the VM is installed.
Use your root or Administrator credentials to deploy your stack and point your domain to the Canadian IP.
Yes. The CA DC II line is provisioned in Montreal or Vancouver. Because Montreal already has a large number of data centers, we originally chose to sell from a high-standard facility in nearby Beauharnois to make a difference, and Toronto hosts our CA DC I and CA DC III lines. Tell us which city you prefer when ordering a CA DC II plan.
By default, every machine is provisioned as a plain system. While ordering, you can add a Windows Server license as an add-on, and the server will then be delivered with licensed Windows and full Administrator access over RDP. Windows runs on CA DC I and CA DC III plans, and costs the same as Linux on those lines apart from the license add-on.
Once you pay the amount for your order, processing starts. Orders are handled in sequence, and when your turn comes in the queue the virtual machine is installed and your login details are emailed to you. If you need the server by a specific time, mention it in a ticket and we will keep you updated.
For Windows, you can order Windows Server 2016 or 2019. For Linux and Unix-like systems, you can choose from CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, Arch Linux and FreeBSD. You can reinstall a different OS later if your needs change, but remember that a reinstall erases the disk, so take a backup first.
You can purchase a maximum of five additional IPv4 addresses per server. In certain cases we may ask you to explain the intended usage, which helps us keep IP ranges clean for all customers. IPv6 is also available, and CA DC III plans include an IPv6 /128 address by default.
CA DC III plans list unlimited bandwidth, but once you consume the allocated monthly bandwidth, the internet port is automatically reduced to 10 Mbps for the remaining days. Full speed returns at the start of the next month. If you expect very heavy traffic, ask us which line fits best before ordering.
Yes. Protection against distributed denial-of-service attacks is included as a free feature on our Canadian platform. It works alongside internal firewalls and secure data-center networking to keep your websites, game servers and applications available. For very large or targeted attacks, contact support so we can review your situation.
Yes. Our Canadian infrastructure allows you to use your machine for any legitimate purpose, including proxy, web, file, CDN, game and email servers. Unlimited-bandwidth plans on CA DC I and the 2 Gbps tiers on CA DC III are the most popular choices for proxies and multiplayer game hosting.
Yes. Many hosting providers order a Canadian VM and resell it as shared hosting packages. Choose a CA DC I plan with enough cores, RAM and NVMe storage for your accounts, add a WHM/cPanel or Plesk Obsidian license, and you can create and manage client hosting accounts from one panel.
The Canadian platform is listed with a 99.9% SLA. We back it with continuous performance monitoring, redundant power, cooling and internet connections at the data center, and DDoS protection. If you notice any problem with your server, open a ticket and our team will investigate.
Canadian KVM servers with NVMe and free DDoS protection from $17.99 a month. Tell us about your project and we will help you choose the right city and plan.
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