Toronto · YYZ-1 · Markham

Storage in Canada

Four to thirty-two terabytes of RAID-10 enterprise disk with unmetered transfer and NVMe read cache. Built for Borg, restic, rclone and long-term archives.

Answer

Toronto storage servers run from $18.00 per month at our YYZ-1 · Markham facility. The network sits on TorIX, with 12 ms to New York and 79 ms to London. Payment is crypto-only, no identity is requested, and deployment completes in 55 seconds.

§01 $18 — 4 configurations

Storage servers plans in Toronto

Priced at the Canada index of 1.14. Cheaper in Romania · Bulgaria · Moldova · Germany if jurisdiction is not the deciding factor.

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

Toronto

Deploy
Most chosen

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

Toronto

Deploy

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

Toronto

Deploy

SX-32

VAULT-32

Thirty-two terabytes, unmetered, in a jurisdiction of your choosing.

CPU
4 vCPU
Memory
32 GB
Storage
32 TB
Transfer
Unmetered

$109.50/mo

Toronto

Deploy

Why Canada

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.

  • No general data-retention mandate for hosting providers 2000
  • Copyright notices are forwarded, not enforced — no takedown obligation 2015
  • Signals-intelligence agency operates under statutory foreign-intelligence mandate 2019
Full legal dossier

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.

Frankfurt
92 ms
New York
12 ms
Uplink
25 Gbps
EU member state
No
§02 Optional

Add-ons

Additional IPv4

$2.50/mo per IP

Clean address from a separate /24. Up to 16 per server, no justification form.

IPv6 /64

Included

Every server ships with a routed /64. A /48 is free on request.

Encrypted snapshots

$0.04/GB/mo

Daily snapshots encrypted with your key, stored in a second jurisdiction. We cannot read them.

Full-disk encryption at provision

Included

LUKS2 with a passphrase you supply over the console at first boot. We never hold the key.

Storage servers elsewhere

§03 FAQ

Frequently asked questions

01 How much is a storage in Canada?

Pricing starts at $18.00 per month for the base configuration at YYZ-1 · Markham and reaches $109.50 for the top tier. Every plan includes DDoS scrubbing, a routed IPv6 /64, and full root access.

02 Why choose Canada for this?

This location is suited to North American traffic that prefers to avoid the US, seedboxes needing a mild copyright profile, and backup targets for US users. Toronto connects via TorIX, reaching New York in 12 ms and London in 79 ms. Canada has no general data retention mandate and uses a notice-and-notice copyright system, so hosts forward complaints instead of removing content — less aggressive than the US for routine notices.

03 What is the catch with Canada?

Toronto is in a Five Eyes country, but the notice-and-notice regime changes the math: a host must forward a copyright complaint to the customer, not take content down. That makes it materially calmer than New York for the most frequent complaint type, yet it is not private. CSE operates under a foreign-intelligence mandate, and Canada is a founding Five Eyes member. You get North American latency and a mild copyright posture, but no jurisdictional shield.

04 Do you require identity verification in Canada?

No, token-only registration is available in every one of our 16 locations. We never ask for a name, email, phone, or ID, and all payments are made with cryptocurrency.

55-second deploy

Storage servers in Canada, from $18

No account to create, no email to confirm, no card to enter.