The Importance of Your Hosting Platform

We use Canadian Web Hosting as our hosting platform and have done so for several years. See their website.

Hosting in Canada keeps Canadian businesses compliant with Canadian Legal Standards. Keeping your website hosting in Canada keeps customer data out of reach of foreign surveillance laws. Your data never leaves Canada. Your data is stored on Canadian Servers and protected under Canadian Privacy Laws. If your website is hosted outside Canada, foreign governments may legally access the server data. You lose control over how data is requested or disclosed. You may not even be notified if data is accessed. Our websites are at the Toronto Data Centre.

Each website on our server has its own C-Panel platform. We have only VPS Hosting. VPS is short for Virtual Private Server. It uses virtualization to create a "virtual machine," splitting a physical server into multiple virtual servers. While you share the same physical hardware with others, a VPS hosting plan provides dedicated resources (such as CPU, RAM, and storage) for your use only. With VPS Hosting, you get many of the benefits of a dedicated server at a more affordable price.

What is the difference between Shared and VPS Hosting? A shared hosting plan means you share key resources (such as CPU, RAM, and storage) with other users on the same shared server. You do not have root access or control over what can be installed on your server. VPS hosting means you do not need to share these key resources with others.

Each website is protected using Securi. What is Securi? We charge our customers $100 for this option. If your website is hacked, restoring it could be costly. Securi helps with that issue.

Each website has an SSL certificate. An SSL certificate encrypts information sent between a user's browser and your server. Without SSL, data can be intercepted or altered while in transit. Modern browsers such as Chrome, Edge, Safari, and Firefox clearly warn when a site lacks an SSL certificate. Without SSL, the consumer will see a "Not Secure" in the address bar and may see a red warning before loading the site. This immediately damages credibility and may cause many visitors to leave. Each website is protected with an SSL certificate for $100.

Our server has enhanced threat detection. We use Imunify360, which offers six layers of integrated Defence. See more.

Regarding Backups. See more

We use the paid version of Thrive Themes to build your website. The paid version of Thrive Themes costs us $420.00 per year for five websites. We charge $100 per website.

We do not host email services on our server. Email is one of the most significant sources of malware. In addition, we have encountered issues when businesses need to add staff email addresses to the server. They have had trouble setting up their email on their phone and expect us to be the solution. In addition, when the server does go down, which it will from time to time, the business operation ceases to exist. We recommend a professional email program, such as Microsoft Outlook or Google Workspace.

All our websites are configured this way to prevent an individual webpage from infecting other websites on the server.