- The importance of a good web server
- Basic Web Hosting Plan - $152 / year
- Ecommerce - $178.00 / year
- Dedicated IP - $205 / year
- Power Web Hosting - $279 / year
- Extreme Hosting - $406 / year
- Plan Comparison
- Bandwidth Explained
A Powerful Web Server
Our server is a powerful Quad core Xeon SuperMicro running CentOS software.
The server has been configured from day one for the Magento Ecommerce application. In fact it was the lack of compatibility and poor performance of other servers that got us to our current configuration.
Magento requires considerable processing power, we consider it something of a benchmark, if the server runs Magento successfully then it will run almost anything.
We offer competitive hosting solutions and all of our plans utilize the Cpanel administration application.
Check the tabs below for a comparison of our hosting plans.
We don't offer unlimited bandwidth, unlimited storage and unlimited emails. Some of our competitors do. We don't believe in magic either but we understand the concept of illusions. By offering things you don't need it seems like you are getting a great deal but what you really need is a reliable server that has enough bandwidth and processing power to serve up your website to the world.
Our basic plan
- Monthly Bandwidth
- 25 GB
- File storage
- 500 MB
- Email Accounts
- 10
- MySQL databases
- 5
- Subdomains
- unlimited
- Parked Domains
- unlimited
This plan is perfect for most websites. There is enough bandwidth to satisfy even a very busy website. There is plenty of file storage for images.
At $152.00 / year this works out to only $12.67 per month and all charges are in Canadian Dollars so our fees do not fluctuate with exchange rates.
Most people will find that this plan offers plenty of growth potential but if you find you need more space or bandwidth we can move you up to the next plan at any time.
Our business hosting plan
- Monthly Bandwidth
- 35 GB
- File storage
- 750 MB
- Email Accounts
- 20
- MySQL databases
- 10
- Subdomains
- unlimited
- Parked Domains
- unlimited
This plan is designed for Ecommerce applications. There is a little more bandwidth than our basic plan and more disk storage.
At $178.00 / year this works out to only $14.83 per month and all charges are in Canadian Dollars so our fees do not fluctuate with exchange rates.
If you plan to accept credit card payments on your Ecommerce website then you should have a dedicated IP address and an SSL certificate.
This is perfect for an Ecommerce site that accepts payment through Paypal.
Dedicated IP address plan
- Monthly Bandwidth
- 35 GB
- File storage
- 750 MB
- Email Accounts
- 20
- MySQL databases
- 10
- Subdomains
- unlimited
- Parked Domains
- unlimited
This plan is designed for Ecommerce applications. There is a little more bandwidth than our basic plan and more disk storage, plus this plan includes a dedicated IP address.
At $205.00 / year this works out to only $17.03 per month and all charges are in Canadian Dollars so our fees do not fluctuate with exchange rates.
If you plan to accept credit card payments on your Ecommerce website then you should have a dedicated IP address and an SSL certificate.
The SSL certificate is an extra charge and we can set it up for you.
The Power Plan
- Monthly Bandwidth
- 50 GB
- File storage
- 1000 MB
- Email Accounts
- 30
- MySQL databases
- 15
- Subdomains
- unlimited
- Parked Domains
- unlimited
This plan is designed for applications with a lot of visitors!. There is a enough bandwidth to deliver over 100,000 * web pages a month, for an additional cost a dedicated IP address can be assigned.
At $279.00 / year this works out to only $23.25 per month and all charges are in Canadian Dollars so our fees do not fluctuate with exchange rates.
* Based on a page size of 480kb, roughly the size of an average facebook page.
The Power Plan
- Monthly Bandwidth
- 75 GB
- File storage
- 1500 MB
- Email Accounts
- 50
- MySQL databases
- 25
- Subdomains
- unlimited
- Parked Domains
- unlimited
This is more server power than most people will ever need but if you have an existing website that is pushing the limits we have an option for you! There is a enough bandwidth to deliver over 160,000 * web pages a month, for an additional cost a dedicated IP address can be assigned.
At $406.00 / year this works out to only $33.83 per month and all charges are in Canadian Dollars so our fees do not fluctuate with exchange rates.
* Based on a page size of 480kb, roughly the size of an average facebook page.
Hosting Plan Comparison
| Plan | Bandwidth | Storage | Annual Cost |
| Basic * |
25 GB |
500 MB |
$152 CDN |
| Business | 35 GB |
750 MB |
$178 CDN |
| Business-IP | 35 GB |
750 MB |
$205 CDN |
| Power * |
50 GB |
1000 MB |
$279 CDN |
| Extreme * |
75 GB |
1500 MB |
$406 CDN |
* A dedicated IP address can be added for $25 / year
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What is bandwidth?
Simply put, bandwidth is the amount of information that can be sent from the server each month.
To make this a more useful and understandable measurment we tried to put it in terms of how many web pages per month could be sent. Web pages do not have a consistent size so what we have tried to do is come up with an understandable page unit.
Based on the popularity of Facebook we decided that the home page (after logging in) is something many people could relate to. Although this page size will change based on it's content we checked ours at approx 480KB.
By comparison this page is 390KB and about 290KB is common with every other page on this website. So that means that unless this is the first page that you have visited you have already downloaded most of the page and these files are currently stored on your computer in a cache.
So a simple calcualtion of bandwidth divided by page size is not the whole story.
Things that increase bandwidth usage
- Large images
- Embedded Flash and multimedia files
- File downloads like pdf's
- Inline styling
- Inconsistent page layout
Things that reduce bandwidth usage
- Using external CSS style sheets
- Minimal use of images
- Re-use of javascript libraries
- Use text instead of 'Pictures of text'
So considering only 90KB is required for a second page on the same website our claim of over 100,000 web pages becomes over 500,000 web pages each month!
That's a lot of traffic! Other hosting companies that offer you unlimited bandwidth are lying to you. The hosting company themselves will not have unlimited bandwidth.
We are offering a hosting plan that is real, it has limits. We have placed a limit ourselves on the number of sites on each server. We aquire additional computers when we have 60 standard plans on one server. For the extreme plan this drops down to twenty.
Don't be fooled by numbers that don't make sense and play on the ignorance of the public.