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What are good shared web hosting providers with Canadian servers?

A frequently-asked question:

I need to start up a website for a friend who’s opening a daycare center. I’m leaning toward shared hosting, but can go the VPS route if I get about 750 GB of bandwidth, 70GB of space, and something affordable. But otherwise, shared hosting. I need a plan with Canadian servers, 100% uptime, plenty of bandwith, and a decent amount of storage space. maybe 20GB. I will also take your experiences with your shared hosting and VPS providers into consideration. I’m probably going to register the domain @ GoDaddy, so please don’t recommend them. I hear their hosting is quite bad. So can you recommend a shared hosting plan simliar to what I need, or do I need a VPS?


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  1. Hello, You should try http://www.hostingfest.com, i have been with them for 2 years, Their plans are starting from 1.99$ per month they have both shared and re seller plans, and if you tell them they will install anything for you, they are very reasonable with prices and are cheap. With 30-day money back grantee you don’t have to worry about anything, Visit them for more details.

  2. I would go with hosting24.com. They offer unlimited bandwidth. you can use coupon codes silverhost4life or goldhost4life for $2 off every month. I spend about $8 a month for unlimited storage and unlimited bandwidth. My arcade site alone uses about 6gb a month, and 50gb of storage. They also offer a domain for life. I have a domain with godaddy, and with hosting24.

    You can create unlimited subdomains, addon domains, emails for each domain. And has an uptime of 99%, pretty much only downtime is server maintenance.

  3. i would go with ovh. they’re cheap and they have many cheap services to provide. they have datacenters in
    canada

  5. Hello,

    If you are just starting a website, I think you will hardly touch few GBs of Disk and Bandwidth in the first one year time period. So why waste money in investing in VPS or very expensive hosting plans. Godaddy’s domains are good but their hosting creates problems some times. I would suggest you to go for a medium size web hosting company. I have wordpress blog which I have been running from almost 1.5 year and its receiving 2000+ visitors daily, and its not consuming even 20GB of bandwidth monthly.
    So you should go for a company which is providing good quality hosting with affordable price.

    Good luck

  8. Why Canada?
    If it does not ned to be Canada try host gator. Their plan meets those reqirments at under
    4$ a month.

  9. You almost certainly don’t need VPS hosting – shared hosting should be fine for what you are looking to do.

    1. For hosting I would go with a safe bet of either iPage or Bluehost – you can compare them here: http://www.webhostingweaver.com/compare/hostgator-vs-ipage

    2. Unless you can program you will also need software to develop the website. I would recommend using WordPress and getting a wordpress theme from http://themeforest.net/. You can the customize the theme to look how you want (they have some themes oriented toward daycare/youthful type design)

    I would expect to pay $4-$7/mo for web hosting and $40 for a wordpress theme (unless you want to use a free one). Bluehost and iPage both offer a really simple way to install wordpress so it should not be too tricky to setup.