Ask HN: Canadian VPS hosting?

Posted by raquo on Thursday April 17, 2014 @03:43AM
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Hello HNers,

Could anyone please recommend a Canadian equivalent of Linode or DigitalOcean? I've done my googling, but the providers I've found seem amateurish and/or outdated, not to mention expensive.

Thanks.

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Re:Ask HN: Canadian VPS hosting? by mcrider on Thursday April 17, 2014 @04:49AM (#7602576)

Try Gossamer Threads (https://gt.net/). What are your reasons for not using Linode or DIgitalOcean anyway -- do you work for a university library or other public institution?

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Re:Ask HN: Canadian VPS hosting? by julianlam on Thursday April 17, 2014 @09:49AM (#7603493)

Starting at $250 a month for a VPS? I don't even want to know why...

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Re:Ask HN: Canadian VPS hosting? by mcrider on Thursday April 17, 2014 @03:32PM (#7605793)

Because its fully managed. Can't say for sure if its worth it, but I have heard good things about them.

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Re:Ask HN: Canadian VPS hosting? by raquo on Thursday April 17, 2014 @03:07PM (#7605648)

No, I don't need this to comply with PIPEDA, but for a couple of my projects it would be nice to be hosted within the country.

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Re:Ask HN: Canadian VPS hosting? by idev247 on Thursday April 17, 2014 @05:30AM (#7602672)

I've used http://www.netelligent.ca/ VPS in the past. They have a cloud version now but I've never tried it.

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Re:Ask HN: Canadian VPS hosting? by olssy on Sunday April 27, 2014 @03:45PM (#7656499)

This company was a client where I used to work and seemed very knowledgable and friendly: http://www.cartika.com Not really the same as DigitalOcean but they offer VPS hosting with data centers in Canada(and US) and they are based in Toronto(or where 2 years ago, they grew quite big since then)

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Re:Ask HN: Canadian VPS hosting? by lastcanal on Thursday April 24, 2014 @04:32PM (#7642778)

OVH has a big datacenter outside Montreal.

http://www.ovh.com/ca/en/vps/

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Re:Ask HN: Canadian VPS hosting? by DLion on Thursday April 24, 2014 @03:52AM (#7638941)

http://cloudatcost.com have vps starting at 35$ one time (yes, one time really)

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Re:Ask HN: Canadian VPS hosting? by fleclerc on Saturday April 19, 2014 @12:48AM (#7612619)

There's CloudA (https://www.clouda.ca/) that is similar to DigitalOcean.

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Re:Ask HN: Canadian VPS hosting? by raquo on Monday April 21, 2014 @05:50PM (#7624188)

Thanks for the suggestion, but CloudA is what I mean by "amateurish". Their website is extremely confusing (compare to https://www.digitalocean.com/ or https://www.linode.com/). They even use StackOverflow logo as an icon for their "Fast Spin Up Time" feature. All this does not inspire confidence.

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Re:Ask HN: Canadian VPS hosting? by fleclerc on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @09:17PM (#7631503)

Ok. Digital Ocean itself is supposed to come to Canada sometime this year if you can wait.

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