Looking to migrate my domains, email and webhosting homward.
I love opalstack but they arent Canadian.
Also looking to replace Onedrive with Nextcloud. Need 1TB to start.
Who all do you like?
OVH, they’re French but they have a datacenter in Beauharnois on the south shore of Montreal literally meters from a hydro dam.
Their support is extremely poor, to say the least. Expect to be down multiple days unless you happen to go down during their business hours.
Never seemed to have any issues, but I guess YMMV
Lemmy.ca was down for like two days because OVH had a PSU go on their host and they never responded to the support requests.
Similarly when I reboot my OVH server I have multiple people reaching out to start hardware intervention just for the ~3 minutes in unexpected downtime. Past servers when I’ve had hardware (hard drive or memory) failures they’ve been handled within less than an hour.
Not denying what happened to lemmy.ca but it definitely has not been my experience over the last 15 years.
I use CanSpace for my domain registration and DNS. They also offer hosting but I haven’t used it.
EasyDNS is Canadian based out of Ontario. I only use them for email and dns personally but they do web hosting also.
For dedicated servers, GTHost has been excellent. At work, we deal with more than a dozen similar vendors globally and GTHost is near the top. I would put them ahead of OVH.
What you’re asking for is like 3 different questions:
- What’s a Canadian registrar you can move your domains to?
- What’s a Canadian email hosting provider you can move to?
- What’s a Canadian webhosting provider you can move to? (What do you need? Just Wordpress? A VPS? Dedicated?)
A small business might use the same company for all 3 of these, but if you work in tech or are at a larger company, you may be interested in 3 different answers for these because they’re all different specializations.
You are correct. My current hosting provider does email, web hosting, and dns, but is not a registrar. I have my domains elsewhere and am inclined to keep them separate. Dont keep all your eggs in one basket type of thing.
Occasionally I will lab something in html, php, python and whatever database. But my actual web hosting needs are pretty minimal. So email and I’d like to try out Nextcloud again if I can find something with economical storage.
WHC is okay but I wouldn’t trust it with a serious setup. When a support response is needed it takes days not hours for any knowledgeable response.
Web Hosting Canada is pretty good…have a few sites there:
…their support is a little slack these days.
All the options are kinda mid, I used to like OVH but they started price gouging for support since 2019 ish.
Pcloud feom Switzerland
