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Website hosting for small business

Website hosting for small businesses with a free SSL certificate, automatic backups, business email on your domain and support by email. We move your website across for free, with no downtime.

Cheap web hosting plans

Choose the hosting plan for your business, with your website included, email on your domain and a free SSL certificate.

Basic

Your landing page built for you, or hosting for the website you already have.

$9.99CAD / month

Your website live in 3 to 5 business days.

Choose Basic
  • Landing page built by us
  • 5 GB NVMe SSD storage
  • 5 business email accounts
  • Free SSL certificate
  • Daily backups
  • Free migration of your current site
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Starter

Your business website, ready to be found.

$19.99CAD / month

Your website live in 3 to 5 business days.

Choose Starter
  • Website of up to 5 pages, built by us
  • Free .ca domain
  • 5 GB NVMe SSD storage
  • 10 business email accounts
  • Free SSL certificate
  • 1 content change a month
  • Live in 3 to 5 business days

Business

For established businesses: more space, more mailboxes and more changes.

$29.99CAD / month

Your website live in 3 to 5 business days.

Choose Business
  • New website or a redesign of your current one
  • Free .ca domain
  • Up to 10 pages of content
  • 15 GB NVMe SSD storage
  • 15 business email accounts
  • Free SSL certificate and daily backups
  • Migration from your current host included
  • Unlimited content changes

Ecommerce

For selling online: catalogue, cart and online payments.

$49.99CAD / month

Your online store live in 10 business days.

Choose Ecommerce
  • Complete online store, built by us
  • Free .ca domain
  • We upload your first 30 products
  • 40 GB NVMe SSD storage
  • Unlimited business email accounts
  • Payments by Stripe, PayPal, Apple Pay and Google Pay
  • Unlimited content changes
  • Priority support

No contract. Cancel anytime.

Industry-standard technology behind every plan, set up and maintained by our team.

Top hosting types for small businesses

Not every site needs the same thing: a lightweight business website doesn't use resources like an online store with hundreds of products. That's why each plan reserves real resources for your project, instead of cramming thousands of sites onto one overloaded server.

We size the plan for you and move it up as your project grows. No need to decode spec sheets: tell us what you're working on and we'll tell you what you need, with the price up front.

  • SSD storage so your site loads quickly
  • Resources allocated to your project, with no noisy neighbours
  • PHP and database versions always up to date
  • Upgrade whenever you need, with no paperwork or downtime

Which CMS should you use?

Most small business websites run on WordPress, and our servers are tuned for exactly that: caching, database and PHP configured so your site responds quickly without you touching a single setting.

  • WordPress installed in minutes
  • Core and plugin updates overseen by our team
  • Caching set up so pages load in seconds
  • Protection against brute-force attacks and spam

Business email

Managing your hosting shouldn't require a course. The control panel is organized by task, so you find what you need in two clicks, on your mobile or your computer.

Rather never log in? That's fine too: email us and we'll make the change for you. That's what a managed service is for.

  • Create business email accounts in two clicks
  • Check and download your backups whenever you like
  • Manage your domains and SSL in one place
  • Step-by-step guide included

Switching hosts is our job, not yours

Already have a website but your current provider is giving you grief? We bring the whole thing across (files, database and email) at no cost and without a minute of downtime. You give us the logins; we handle the rest.

Safe and secure

A file deleted by mistake, an update that goes wrong or an attack shouldn't cost you your website. Every plan includes automatic backups of your site, database and email, stored away from the main server.

  • Automatic daily backups
  • One-click restore from your control panel
  • Backups stored away from the main server
  • If you prefer, we restore it for you at no cost

Domain hosting

If you run more than one business, or manage websites for your clients, you don't need an account for each site. We can host several projects in one control panel, each with its own domain, email and backups.

You pay one monthly plan for everything, and adding a new site takes minutes: email us, we set it up and let you know when it's live.

  • All your domains managed from one account
  • Separate email and backups for each business
  • One monthly payment for all your sites

High speeds

A campaign that takes off, a mention on social media or your busy season can multiply your visitors overnight. Your hosting has to cope at exactly that moment, because that's when customers are won or lost.

We monitor our servers around the clock and spread the load before anyone notices. If your project starts running tight, we'll tell you and suggest moving up a plan in good time.

  • Resources reserved for your site, with no surprises from neighbours
  • Consistent speed, even at peak times
  • Constant monitoring and a heads-up before you run short

Predictable billing

What you see is what you pay, in Canadian dollars: no currency conversion, no surprise charges for extra resources and no inflated renewal prices in year two. And when you email us, you get a reply from someone on the team who knows your site, not a bot with canned answers.

Managed WordPress

Yes. Switching hosts is nerve-racking for one reason: nobody wants their website or email to go down along the way. Our method removes that risk, because your current site keeps running while we prepare everything in parallel.

  • We copy your whole site and test it on our servers
  • Only once everything works do we point your domain
  • Your website stays online throughout the move

Lower latency for local visitors

A slow server is no use if your customers are in Toronto, Montreal or Vancouver: every click takes longer and Google takes note. Your site is served through Cloudflare's network, which has data centres close to your customers, so pages reach your visitors quickly from coast to coast.

And if you also sell abroad, the content delivery network keeps copies of your site in different countries so it loads quickly wherever your visitors are.

  • Quick loading for visitors coast to coast
  • Global CDN included for visitors from abroad
  • Optional dedicated IP for projects that need one

Reliable hosting

We work to a 99.9% availability target: constant monitoring, automatic backups and a team that reacts within minutes if anything goes wrong. Your website is your storefront, open 24 hours a day, and our job is to keep it open.

Guarantees included in every hosting plan, at no extra cost.

SSL included

99.9% uptime

Daily backups

Real human support

Web hosting FAQ

What is the best web hosting?

The one that keeps your site fast and online, backs it up every day, answers when you write, and bills you without inflated renewals. Hosting is the server where your website's files live: text, images, database and email.

Ours is managed: we don't just give you the space, we also look after the technical side (updates, security, backups and monitoring) so you can have a website without needing to know anything about servers. Plans go from $9.99 to $49.99 a month.

What is the best free website hosting?

Free hosting usually means ads on your site, no email on your domain and nobody to call when it breaks. Our Basic plan costs $9.99 a month and includes 5 GB of storage, 5 mailboxes on your domain, a free SSL certificate and daily backups, with no contract.

What’s in a domain name?

Your address on the internet, and the end of your email. On the Starter, Business and Ecommerce plans, a .ca or .com domain is included free. We register it, point it to our servers, set up SSL and email, and keep an eye on it so nothing is left misconfigured.

Already have a domain? We connect it at no cost, without interrupting your email.

Can I move my website myself or should I hire a professional?

Leave it to us: migration is included in every plan. Send us the logins for your current hosting and we copy your files, database and email, set the site up on our servers and test it carefully while the original keeps running. Only once we've checked everything works do we point the domain.

We host sites built by us or by others: WordPress, WooCommerce stores and HTML websites. Your visitors won't notice the switch and email keeps arriving.

Does my hosting have security features to protect my business and clients?

Yes. Every plan includes an SSL certificate, protection against brute-force attacks and spam, and daily backups of your files, database and email, kept away from the main server.

You can restore a backup yourself from the control panel in one click, or email us and we'll do it at no cost.

How does communication work across time zones?

By email, from St. John's to Victoria. Write to [email protected] and a real person from our team will reply the same business day, not a bot. Because we monitor our servers constantly, we often spot and fix problems before you notice them.

Support is included: we don't charge to help you, to check your site when it's playing up, or to give you a hand with your email or domain.