Website hosting
Canadian alternatives to Cloudflare
Cloudflare: Cloudflare offers Canadian storage, but you have to choose it, and it may depend on your plan. It is owned by a US company, so the US CLOUD Act can require it to produce data it controls, wherever that data is stored.
Canadian-owned, data in Canada
Canadian-owned and data stored in Canada, but the servers belong to AWS, Microsoft or Google, or the vendor does not say whose servers they are.
Shared, WordPress, VPS and dedicated hosting
- Stored in Canada?
- Yes, if you choose it
- Owner
- HostPapa (Burlington, ON), describes itself as Canadian owned and operated
- Servers run by
- HostPapa servers in third-party data centres · Owner not stated
Check the order page: not every plan defaults to Toronto.
Shared, WordPress and reseller hosting, VPS and dedicated servers
- Stored in Canada?
- Yes
- Owner
- WHC Online Solutions Inc. (Montréal, QC), privately owned
- Servers run by
- WHC servers in Canadian data centres (facility operators not named) · Owner not stated
Canadian-owned and Canadian-hosted at small-business prices.
If storage in Canada is enough
These are US-owned but can keep data in Canada. They meet most storage rules; they do not meet an ownership test.
Static hosting, Netlify Functions and Blobs
- Stored in Canada?
- Yes, if you choose it
- Owner
- Netlify, Inc. (San Francisco, CA)
- Servers run by
- Netlify platform on AWS · US company
Blobs storage regions are US, EU and Asia-Pacific only.
Hosting for Next.js and other front-ends; Vercel Functions
- Stored in Canada?
- Yes, if you choose it
- Owner
- Vercel Inc. (US)
- Servers run by
- Vercel platform on AWS · US company
Defaults to iad1 (Washington DC). One configuration line moves functions to Montréal; the owner is still a US company.
Ranked by tier, not by quality: this site rates where data goes and who owns the company, not features or price. See all website hosting listings and the methodology.