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Hey! It's my first post!

I have a few websites that are hosted in the USA. I'm going to move them all to Canadian hosts. I'm looking for recommendations for hosting companies in Canada that are owned by Canadians. I've look at a few but first hand experience is always welcome.

Most of my sites are just basic html/css/javascript but one of them is a wordpress storefront. I specifically need the Wordpress site to be as fast as possible - a difficult task for wordpress, I know.

Also, glad to see this community! Great stuff!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

They run a Tier 2 networking service, including peering with a lot of big exchanges. They'll be around for a while... And have been so far...

Hetzner does the same shit for ID verification/provisioning, it's all related to anti spam and anti malicious use.

I host at home but use Xenyth as a reverse proxy, that's honestly what many people who are comfortable to run their own server should do; protect your home IP.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, but Hetzner's physical address on their website isn't a PO box...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What a weird thing to focus on, are you planning to go visit your VPS in person?

GoCode is the parent company, and you can see they offer colo in an Equinox datacenter. I imagine this might be a one person contracting team that uses a PO Box for home address privacy (as I do myself for my business purposes)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

You opened the door by making the comparison with Hetzner. What rationale is there to an 8 business day response to a new sign up? They're not running a police background check, lol. If you don't want fraud, you take a credit card up front and preauth it. It just tells me they're not serious about business and it tells me that if something goes wrong with my services with them, I can expect no response for a week. It's a ridiculous way to do business, and I can't imagine trusting them with anything I cared about because of that.

Equinix is legit and Xenyth's actual offerings and the way they write about their network + colo is what made me consider them in the first place, because they do seem competent. But if they're not paying attention to sales leads, and they're trying to compete with AWS/GCloud/Azure, good luck...