Managed Canadian Hosting for over 15 years
- Canadian: All data and backups are stored in Canada, on our own equipment, never in “the cloud”. Know exactly where your data is kept!
- Compliant: Meet and exceed compliance with PIPEDA, PIPA, and FOIPPA regulations. Implement best practices for privacy by keeping any collected PII in Canada.
- Secure: We harden every site we host for security as part of our onboarding process. In addition to this, our Firewalls, Intrusion Protection and Detection systems, and detailed monitoring are always at work protecting you.
- Fast: Websites do not start out fast, they are tuned that way! We performance-tune every website we host with fast RAM-backed caching.
- Safe: We perform daily on-site, off-site, and off-line backups of your data. Your data and its backups are protected with RAID.
- Knowledgeable: We have vast experience at fixing common problems. Our expert support engineers will work with you and your developer as needed to fix issues.
Your website is your organization’s public face. Trust it to the experts.
WordPress
WordPress has grown from humble beginnings as blogging software to now powering one third of the websites on the Internet. It is simple, affordable, and sites can last forever if maintained properly. Because it is so popular, it has more plugins and themes available than any other CMS project. Because it is so popular, sites are constantly under attack by hackers, more than any other CMS. We specialize in both performance, security, and disaster recovery for production WordPress sites.
Drupal
Drupal has continued to lead the open source CMS world with its enterprise-grade quality and its vibrant developer community. It is fast, customizable, and enterprise grade. There is almost nothing it cannot do well, given the correct hosting environment! CanTrust Hosting Co-op was originally formed in 2009 by Drupal developers, so that we could finally have good hosting for the amazing Drupal 4.7 sites we were building. Our Drupal environment includes SSH access and Composer, but can also work with CI/CD pipelines or serverless-style using webhooks.
Next.js
Next.js has exploded in popularity as the leading React server framework. It provides a rich set of sever-side functionality for React applications. But its cloud native architecture provides challenges for compliance and security. Our Next.js hosting platform is built for security and compliance: All application components are self-contained on a a single private server including the database, and application storage of any uploaded information. Everything is served from and backed up in Canada. We use web-hooks over SSH for deployment, so there is no storage of passwords or keys to production in the cloud anywhere.
Node.js
Node brings Javascript (the world’s most popular language) to servers! The event-driven architecture of Javascript is well suited to server-side applications, but Node.js itself must be properly setup for production use. Our environment provides production Node.js with a reverse proxy, logging, process and uptime monitoring and reliability. Deploy serverless-style from Git and tune and troubleshoot via SSH.
Features |
CanTrust Managed Hosting |
|---|---|
| White Glove Site Move | |
| 99.99%+ website uptime SLA | |
| 24/7 Site Monitoring with automatic site recovery | |
| Expert Human Support | |
| Custom Management for Complex Sites | |
| Managed server security | |
| Managed Backup / Restore | |
| Managed Security Incident Response |
Community Plan
- for small organizational websites
- No e-commerce or bulk marketing**
- up to 25,000 visitors per month
- 1 top level domain + up to 4 subdomain sites
- 50GB disk space
- 50GB bandwidth
- 100% Canadian infrastructure
- 100% Open Source technology
- Small server (8GB+ RAM)
- daily on-site + off-site filesystem backups
- 24/7/365 server monitoring and uptime support
- 99.99% up-time gaurantee
- Free site move ***
- Free site security and performance tune ****
Professional Plan
- for busier mission critical sites
- No bulk marketing**
- up to 100,000 visitors per month
- 1 top level domain + up to 10 subdomains
- 100GB disk space
- 100GB bandwidth
- 100% Canadian infrastructure
- 100% Open Source technology
- Larger server (16GB+ RAM)
- daily on-site + off-site filesystem backups
- 24/7/365 server monitoring and uptime support
- 99.99% up-time gaurantee
- Free site move ***
- Free site security and performance tune ****
Enterprise Plan
- for public info sources, social media campaigns
- ready for anything**
- up to 250,000 visitors per month
- 2 top level domains + up to 10 subdomains each
- 200GB disk space
- 200GB bandwidth
- 100% Canadian infrastructure
- 100% Open Source technology
- Huge server (32GB+ RAM, varnish)
- daily on-site + off-site filesystem backups
- 24/7/365 server monitoring and uptime support
- 99.99% up-time gaurantee
- Free site move ***
- Free site security and performance tune ****
Private Hosting (VPS)
- for maximum security and collecting user data
- scale up as you grow
- unlimited visitors per month
- unlimited sites (no reselling!)
- 100GB disk space
- 100GB bandwidth
- 100% Canadian infrastructure
- 100% Open Source technology
- starting at 4GB RAM
- daily on-site + off-site filesystem backups
- 24/7/365 server monitoring and uptime support
- 99.99% up-time gaurantee
- Free site move ***
- Free site security and performance tune ****
* Usage based billing: Each package includes enough bandwidth and disk space for the average customer using that plan. For most customers, they do not see an overage bill, ever. If you do need extra bandwidth or disk space, you will simply be charged the overage each month on your bill, based on what you actually used the past month. Additional bandwidth is $0.25/GB/month and disk space is $0.25/GB/month.
** Plan Restrictions: Different plans are for different purposes and so some plans have restrictions on use. e-Commerce stores are not supported on Community Plan, due to the excessive server resources they consume. Bulk marketing campaigns are not supported on Community or Professional Plans. We define “ulk marketing campaigns” as campaigns using e-mail lists, or “viral” social media campaigns that are intended to direct lots of users to your site at once. For this type of marketing, you must use the Enterprise plan (or a custom tuned VPS), so that we can tune it properly and it is able to withstand viral traffic spikes and heavy load. Of course sometimes success is a surprise, in which case we might quickly move your site to the correct plan with the appropriate performance tuning, at our discretion.
*** Free Site Move: Free site move includes up to 4 hours complementary support time moving one website from your old provider to CanTrust Hosting. You are responsible for providing all required passwords and logins to previous provider and/or your DNS providers. If additional sites need to be moved, the time will be billed at our regular rate of $100 CAD/hr + GST.
**** Free site security and performance tune: Free security and performance audit includes installation of caching and security settings for production website. The audit may reveal further issues to be resolved by a developer.
