Web Hosting Canada is pretty good...have a few sites there:
...their support is a little slack these days.
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I use CanSpace for my domain registration and DNS. They also offer hosting but I haven't used it.
OVH, they're French but they have a datacenter in Beauharnois on the south shore of Montreal literally meters from a hydro dam.
Their support is extremely poor, to say the least. Expect to be down multiple days unless you happen to go down during their business hours.
Never seemed to have any issues, but I guess YMMV
Lemmy.ca was down for like two days because OVH had a PSU go on their host and they never responded to the support requests.
For dedicated servers, GTHost has been excellent. At work, we deal with more than a dozen similar vendors globally and GTHost is near the top. I would put them ahead of OVH.
EasyDNS is Canadian based out of Ontario. I only use them for email and dns personally but they do web hosting also.
What you're asking for is like 3 different questions:
- What's a Canadian registrar you can move your domains to?
- What's a Canadian email hosting provider you can move to?
- What's a Canadian webhosting provider you can move to? (What do you need? Just Wordpress? A VPS? Dedicated?)
A small business might use the same company for all 3 of these, but if you work in tech or are at a larger company, you may be interested in 3 different answers for these because they're all different specializations.
You are correct. My current hosting provider does email, web hosting, and dns, but is not a registrar. I have my domains elsewhere and am inclined to keep them separate. Dont keep all your eggs in one basket type of thing.
Occasionally I will lab something in html, php, python and whatever database. But my actual web hosting needs are pretty minimal. So email and I'd like to try out Nextcloud again if I can find something with economical storage.