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TL/DR: I moved my VPS from DigitalOcean to FullHost. My new server is hosted in a datacentre in Vancouver (Renfrew & Grandview area). It’s cheaper, better performance, superb connectivity, and a 2ms ping time from my home and office Telus connections.

Over the past few weeks I subscribed to several Canadian VPS providers, paying full price and fully setting up a server on each one. I put them through their paces (benchmarking, network connectivity investigation, and also interacting with their tech support to gauge their helpfulness and expertise).

Here’s the full writeup:

In it, I also make this offer, which I’ll repeat here in case it’s of interest to anyone.

If you are a Canadian company or individual that is hosting web services with a US provider, I’m offering pro bono consultation to help you figure out your best option to move it to Canada.

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Amazing, thanks for this Luke!

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This spurred some good discussion over on lobste.rs.

Someone mentioned Free Range Cloud, which looks great. I didn’t learn about them in time to include in my review, but I would recommend anyone here check them out (and report back!).

  • BC Company
  • Very nice VPS offering with locations in quite a few cities
  • Some other interesting services related to peering, BGP and getting your own ARIN allocation.
  • They give off a nice hacker ethic vibe, while still very professional
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