@Stewart, my response to "What's a good Canadian web hosting provider?" is 1200 words, plus I wrote on the answer wiki: --- A Canadian web hosting provider should: 1. have servers located in Canada; 2. be owned by Canadian citizens or registered as a Canadian corporation; and 3. comply with The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) <https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/privacy-topics/privacy-laws-in-canada/the-personal-information-protection-and-electronic-documents-act-pipeda/> set by the Canadian government (rather than the USA PATRIOT ACT <http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/pubs_pol/gospubs/tbm_128/usapa/faq-eng.asp>). A positive feature would be acceptance of payment in Canadian dollars (rather than a requirement of U.S. dollars). --- I considered 7 alternatives: Planethoster, HostUpon, Web Hosting Canada, Funio, Cirrus Tech, Dynamic Hosting, and Hostpapa. Different people make different decisions, based on their own needs. On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 12:05 PM Stewart C. Russell via talk < talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
On Thu, Jul 19, 2018, 11:01 David Ing isss--- via talk, <talk@gtalug.org <mailto:talk@gtalug.org>> wrote:
Karen,
In November 2016, I had changed shared hosting companies. My search is described at https://www.quora.com/Whats-a-good-Canadian-web-hosting-provider .
Can you summarize here, please? Quora blocks content unless you're a registered user.
A mostly thumbs-down from me for 1and1, even though I've used them for 15 years. They do have Linux shell access, but my complaint is more about their use of https certificates as a cash cow: you get one per account, linked to one domain. Further certificates cost money, and they actively block Let's Encrypt usage.
Stewart
(accidentally sent that last one off-list)
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