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There's plenty of strong webhosting available in Canada. In Toronto
there's a huge data center at 151 front street, there's also one at 1
yonge street I think (in the toronto star building on the waterfront).
There's big datacenters in vancouver, and some sort of fortress I've
seen referenced located in Ottawa. <br>
<br>
Depends on what you're doing I suppose. I host many of my sites at a
hosting company in the US I paid $6 for one year for unlimited domains
:). Fine for home stuff. Most of my business stuff needs more than
just uptime - I need fast servers and fast response times to my clients.<br>
<br>
For example, where I'm hosted (currently at 151 front) there was no
downtime during the ice storm a few years ago (I was in Kitchener at
the time and had about 12 hours downtime). And they're members of the
Toronto internet exchange - which means that my sites go super fast to
most IPS's in Canada - because places like bell and rogers are also
there - and that means that all of rogers customers go directly from
rogers though the exchange right on to my servers. No 'internet' or
third party really involved. So Canadians see my content fast. And
Google's peer sharing there as well, so they get my pages fast (and
I've got a Canadian IP address which I'm pretty sure is a factor in
ranking in Google.ca). <br>
<br>
Now when I used to host elsewhere, I'd sometimes see 15 or more hops to
get to my data. I've seen my traffic routed through Barrie as well as
through NYC and Chicago. All of that makes a difference if you're
serving content to Canadians.<br>
<br>
I'm no technical expert on webhosting, but the practical application
side of this stuff can become important in some cases as well (though I
understand that the OP wasn't looking for that :) ).<br>
<br>
g,<br>
<br>
Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
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cite="mid:4a9fdc631003161930q603cd9c6i46e52516a1c5ccff@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">For your SO, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://dropbox.com">dropbox.com</a> may be a better solution
than your home server.<br>
<br>
For hosting, since you are Linux savvy, just go to Slicehost.com and get<br>
a VPS. Uptime is rock solid. You are on a 4 core machine, and pricing<br>
varies by memory (USD $38 per month for 512MB). You get to chose<br>
the distro you like most. And as long as you are relatively low
traffic, that<br>
should do. Like you I have 4 domains, combined page views (Analytics)<br>
are 5,800 per day.<br>
<br>
# uptime<br>
02:24:14 up 632 days, 20:33, 1 user, load average: 0.06, 0.06, 0.07<br>
-- <br>
Khalid M. Baheyeldin<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://2bits.com">2bits.com</a>, Inc.<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://2bits.com">http://2bits.com</a><br>
Drupal optimization, development, customization and consulting.<br>
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. -- Edsger W.Dijkstra<br>
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. -- Leonardo da Vinci<br>
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