Kinsta’s Canada managed WordPress hosting is perfect for bloggers, agencies, developers, enterprise, and WooCommerce stores. Powered by Google Cloud, get lightning-fast load times and 24/7 support from veteran WordPress experts. We have a 30-day money-back guarantee and our team will migrate you for free.
Host your site in Google Cloud Platform’s Montréal data center for the fastest coverage throughout Canada.
Fully managed
The MyKinsta dashboard is packed full easy to use features. Manage all of your sites from one convenient dashboard.
Built for speed
We use Nginx, LXD containers, PHP 8.0, and MariaDB on Google Cloud Platform to bring you lightning fast load times.
Secure like Fort Knox
Active/passive security protocols, firewalls, GeoIP blocking, IP limiting and more to keep your site safe 24/7.
Daily backups
We use encrypted and highly secure ZFS-based snapshots to create automatic daily backups of your website.
Free migrations
Sit back and relax while our engineers move your site to Kinsta. Preview and check it before it goes live.
WordPress hosting in Canada
According to Internet World Stats, there are more than 33 million internet users in Canada. With a total population of just over 36 million, Canada has an impressive internet penetration rate of 89.9% (in fact its one of the world’s highest). It’s safe to say that a large majority of Canadian residents use the internet on a daily basis.
The Canada Post says that eight in ten Canadians shop online, and they’re buying more items, more often, across many product categories. So it’s no surprise that Canada’s eCommerce industry is booming. According to eMarketer, eCommerce sales in 2017 rose nearly 30%. As of March 2017, retail eCommerce sales totaled approximately C$1.2 billion. It’s projected that in 2018 retail eCommerce sales will reach CA$56.96 billion and account for 9.0% of total retail sales.
The mobile market is also growing rapidly. According to Absolunet, mobile transactions doubled in the 2017 holiday season and the Canadian average order value (AOV) was in fact higher than the U.S. AOV.
According to Google, testing shows up to 90% reductions in round-trip time (RTT) latency when serving customers in Montréal, compared to hosting them in the previous closest locations: Iowa, Northern Virginia, South Carolina, and Oregon regions.
From our speed tests, below is the average website latency (ping times) from the Montréal data center to nearby regions:
8.287 ms to Toronto, Canada
11.169 ms to New York, New York
37.643 ms to Miami, Florida
42.226 ms to Dallas, Texas
62.514 ms to Seattle, Washington
69.501 ms to San Franciso, California
Speed is one of the most important factors for user experience and thus conversions. Thanks to the cutting-edge technology we employ via Google Cloud Platform, PHP 8.0, LXD and others we are able to serve your Canada based and international visitors with the speed they deserve.
If the majority of your website’s traffic is from Canada, choose our Montréal data center!
Some of the most popular sites in Canada run on WordPress, such as canada.com, olympic.ca, ducks.ca, siriusxm.ca, torontostandard.com, historymuseum.ca, vu.ca, macleans.ca, sprott.carleton.ca, dizal.com, maplefromquebec.ca, manoverboard.com, and bonboss.ca.
Canada has very active local WordPress community with over ten cities having hosted WordCamps over the years with thousands of attendees. There are also a lot of local Meetups happening on a regular basis. The Vancouver and Toronto WordPress Meetup groups both have over 2,000 members. Other Meetups include those in Montréal, Ottawa, Peterborough, Niagara, Hamilton, and Durham. Watching this rapidly growing community is exciting.
The biggest WordCamps in Canada, a few of which Kinsta is proud to be a sponsor, include:
WordCamp Montréal
WordCamp Ottawa, Ontario
WordCamp Vancouver
WordCamp Toronto
WordCamp Halifax, Nova Scotia
WordCamp Hamilton
WordCamp Calgary
WWordCamp Winnipeg
WordCamp Vernon
WordCamp Edmonton
Canada also contains many notable and award-winning agencies that offer WordPress design and development services; such as Forge and Smith, NexToronto, Machine, and Sparkjoy Studios.
How to achieve the best performance
Cutting-edge technology on the hardware and software side of hosting
Our developer and system administrator team have been working with WordPress for over eight years. We know it inside out, have written several plugins and custom themes for this great CMS in the past years and we’ve been actively involved in hosting WordPress on our machines for years.
We only use the latest versions of each software that we work with ensuring that you and your visitors can enjoy the best user experience and the fastest page load times in the industry.
For the tech-savvy, here’s our current stack: Nginx, LXD containers, MariaDB, and PHP 8.0. We also offer HTTP/2 support, SSH, WP-CLI and Git support for our accounts. We use SSD-only machines and our full-page caches are stored in memory to be able to deliver them in just a few milliseconds!
Turbocharge content delivery with Montréal CDN
Kinsta has partnered up with KeyCDN, a premium HTTP/2 content delivery network (CDN), to turbocharge your content around the globe. We include free bandwidth across all of our plans. When enabled, your content will be delivered and cached from their 34 POPs, this includes all regions: North America, Europe, Asia, South America, Africa, and Australia!
The network features a POP in Montréal, as well as eight other POPs strategically placed across North America. These provide high throughput and low latency throughout all of Canada, as well as surrounding regions.
Comply with data privacy regulations
Kinsta takes data privacy seriously and utilizes Google Cloud Platform's encryption at rest. We allow you and your clients to comply with privacy regulations that require data reside in a specific country or region. Rest assured, if you choose the Montréal data center, no data is ever hosted outside of Canada. By design, any add-ons or features that do transmit data outside of the country are optional and not enabled by default.
Our Canadian clients love us
Kinsta’s speed, along with its use of cutting-edge technologies, helped us increase our score on the Google PageSpeed Insights tool. We were pleasantly surprised by the low cost of Kinsta’s web hosting. The Starter Plan is reasonably priced and more than sufficient for the needs of a small business. We are actually paying less now than before, even though the website is loading twice as fast.
Overall Kinsta has helped increase my web traffic because of how fast my website loads. The speed of using Google's Cloud Platform has increased my website load time by 80%. I don't have people getting tired of waiting for my site to load. This in itself is worth the investment into Kinsta for myself and my clients! Also the support is outstanding because I can have answers within minutes.
Kinsta provides an amazing service, with a simple control panel and top performance. Their support is even more amazing, always available, and fast at fixing any issue.
5.0
HostAdvice
We truly cannot say enough about the level of customer service that Kinsta provides - it's always a great experience, with very personable and helpful support.
5.0
Case study
Kinsta is the best host I've had in 10 years. Smooth migration, no stress, and friendly support one click away. I'm very happy and recommend their services!
5.0
Trustpilot
With Kinsta's professional support we sleep safely at night. And with the blazing fast servers, we serve our customers better than ever before!
5.0
Intercom
Maintaining many global WordPress sites, we've become well acquainted with all the major hosting providers. No one is running our sites as fast as Kinsta.
5.0
Intercom
Kinsta is reliable and makes shipping changes easy. The support team was exceedingly helpful when we needed to migrate our blog. A+ on their support team.
5.0
Intercom
We love Kinsta! They’re no doubt one of the least negotiable expenses we have each month. Incredible speed and absolutely unbelievable support.
5.0
Trustpilot
Absolutely fantastic - cannot rate highly enough in terms of speed, support, and UI. Went from WP Engine to Flywheel, then to Kinsta and couldn't be happier.
5.0
Trustpilot
Our agency has worked with all the major hosting platforms. Kinsta is crazy fast and the support is stellar! We moved all our clients to Kinsta and haven't looked back.
5.0
Trustpilot
Really love the level of experience and support Kinsta's live chat engineers provide. The 24/7 support is a game-changer for large sites, especially ecommerce.
5.0
Trustpilot
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