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Toronto · YYZ-1 · Markham

Servers in Canada

North America, softer copyright

Answer

Toronto sits on TorIX with 12 ms to New York and 79 ms to London. Canada has no general retention mandate and runs a notice-and-notice copyright regime — hosts forward complaints instead of removing content — which makes it calmer than the United States for routine notices. It remains a founding Five Eyes member, so treat it as a latency choice.

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§01 Legal dossier

What Canada law actually says

Each claim below names the instrument behind it and the year it took effect, so you can verify it rather than trust us.

  1. 01

    No general data-retention mandate for hosting providers

    Instrument · 2000
    PIPEDA imposes minimisation duties, not retention duties

  2. 02

    Copyright notices are forwarded, not enforced — no takedown obligation

    Instrument · 2015
    Copyright Act, s.41.25–41.26 (notice-and-notice regime)

  3. 03

    Signals-intelligence agency operates under statutory foreign-intelligence mandate

    Instrument · 2019
    Communications Security Establishment Act (Bill C-59)

  4. 04

    Production orders available to law enforcement on judicial authorisation

    Instrument · 2014
    Criminal Code, s.487.014–487.018

The trade-off

A Five Eyes country with one genuinely useful property: the notice-and-notice regime obliges a host to forward a copyright complaint to the customer, not to remove the content. That makes Toronto materially calmer than New York for the most common complaint type, without making it private — CSE operates under a foreign-intelligence mandate and Canada is a founding Five Eyes member. Good North American latency, mild copyright posture, no jurisdictional protection.

Measured latency

Round-trip in milliseconds, measured from Toronto over the last 30 days.

Frankfurt 92 ms
Amsterdam 85 ms
London 79 ms
New York 12 ms
Singapore 226 ms

Network
TorIX peering, the largest exchange in Canada; transit via Cogent, Zayo and Bell.

Facility

Facility
YYZ-1 · Markham
Uplink
25 Gbps per node
EU member state
No
Intelligence alliance
Five Eyes participant
Location live since
2024
Test address
185.132.44.144
Looking glass
lg-yyz.incognitovps.com
Coordinates
43.6532, -79.3832

Best for

  • North American latency outside the US
  • Seedboxes with a mild copyright profile
  • Backup targets near US users
§02 $4.5 — 6 configurations

Linux VPS in Canada

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HV-1

SCOUT

A relay, a bridge, a bastion host. The smallest useful thing.

CPU
1 vCPU
Memory
2 GB
Storage
25 GB
Transfer
2 TB

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HV-2

RELAY

VPN endpoint, proxy, small site. The default first server.

CPU
2 vCPU
Memory
4 GB
Storage
60 GB
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4 TB

$8.00/mo

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HV-4

VECTOR

Docker stacks, CI runners, a pruned chain node.

CPU
4 vCPU
Memory
8 GB
Storage
140 GB
Transfer
8 TB

$16.00/mo

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Dedicated in Canada

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DS-0

OUTPOST

Entry bare metal. Your own kernel, your own disk, no neighbours.

CPU
4c / 8t
Memory
32 GB
Storage
1 TB
Transfer
30 TB

$52.50/mo

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DS-1

GARRISON

Single-tenant workhorse with IPMI and custom ISO boot.

CPU
8c / 16t
Memory
64 GB
Storage
2 TB
Transfer
50 TB

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DS-2

RAMPART

Highest single-thread clock on the network. Chain nodes love it.

CPU
16c / 32t
Memory
128 GB
Storage
4 TB
Transfer
60 TB

$170.00/mo

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§04 $11 — 4 configurations

Windows RDP in Canada

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WR-2

DESK

Windows Server 2022 with full administrator, ready in 60 seconds.

CPU
2 vCPU
Memory
4 GB
Storage
60 GB
Transfer
2 TB

$11.00/mo

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WR-4

DESK-PRO

Comfortable desktop workloads and light automation.

CPU
4 vCPU
Memory
8 GB
Storage
120 GB
Transfer
5 TB

$19.50/mo

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WR-8

STUDIO

Multi-session work, trading terminals, heavy browser fleets.

CPU
6 vCPU
Memory
16 GB
Storage
240 GB
Transfer
10 TB

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Storage in Canada

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SX-4

VAULT-4

Cheap bulk capacity for backups, mirrors and media libraries.

CPU
2 vCPU
Memory
4 GB
Storage
4 TB
Transfer
Unmetered

$18.00/mo

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SX-8

VAULT-8

Restic, Borg, rclone and Syncthing targets with room to grow.

CPU
2 vCPU
Memory
8 GB
Storage
8 TB
Transfer
Unmetered

$32.00/mo

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SX-16

VAULT-16

Seedbox-class throughput with 200 GB of NVMe cache in front.

CPU
4 vCPU
Memory
16 GB
Storage
16 TB
Transfer
Unmetered

$59.50/mo

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

01 Is Canada a good place to host a server?

Toronto sits on TorIX with 12 ms to New York and 79 ms to London. Canada has no general retention mandate and runs a notice-and-notice copyright regime — hosts forward complaints instead of removing content — which makes it calmer than the United States for routine notices. It remains a founding Five Eyes member, so treat it as a latency choice. The trade-off is set out in full on this page rather than omitted.

02 Does Canada have mandatory data retention?

Canada imposes no general data-retention mandate on hosting providers. PIPEDA (2000) requires minimisation, not retention.

03 Is Canada in Five Eyes or the EU?

Canada is a founding Five Eyes member and not an EU member state, so EU judicial-cooperation instruments do not reach it.

04 What latency should I expect from Toronto?

Measured round-trip times: 92 ms to Frankfurt, 79 ms to London, 85 ms to Amsterdam, 12 ms to New York, 226 ms to Singapore. A looking glass is published at lg-yyz.incognitovps.com.

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