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VPS TorontoCanada

Canadian jurisdiction with US-grade latency, for workloads that must stay north of the border.

Live since
2018
Median RTT
3 ms
Edge capacity
0.34 Tbit/s
from
€1.90/mo
FacilityAll systems operational
Facility
YYZ1 — 151 Front Street
Certification
Tier III+
Carriers
Cogent, Zayo, Bell
Peering
TorIX
Test IP
198.51.59.10
Stock
In stock
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Toronto · YYZ1

Why Toronto?

YYZ1 is at 151 Front Street West, the address TorIX has always been at. We opened it in 2018 and we buy Bell here, which we avoid doing where we can — an incumbent is expensive and rarely the shortest way to anything. In Canada it is also the only dependable way to reach a Bell subscriber, and there are a great many of those.

What it reaches

340 Gbit/s and 24 peers into TorIX, which keeps Canadian traffic inside Canada instead of hairpinning through Chicago or New York. That is the practical difference between this site and putting a Canadian workload in Ashburn, alongside the jurisdiction.

The trade-off

Jurisdiction covers the disk, not the path. Anything leaving Canada for somewhere that is not Canada usually crosses a US border on the way, and no exchange in Toronto changes that.

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Fleet

Plans available in Toronto

NVMe KVM instances in Toronto, from €1.90 a month on a twelve-month term. Email address only, crypto accepted, live in under a minute.

TERM

Longer term, lower monthly rate

PART EVPS-NANOREV. D
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Nano

€1.90/mo

billed €22.80 oncesave 21% vs 6-month

vCPU
1 × EPYC
Memory
2 GB DDR5
NVMe storage
25 GB NVMe
Traffic
2 TB
Port
1 Gbit/s
PART EVPS-MICROREV. D
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Micro

€3.10/mo

billed €37.20 oncesave 21% vs 6-month

vCPU
2 × EPYC
Memory
4 GB DDR5
NVMe storage
50 GB NVMe
Traffic
4 TB
Port
1 Gbit/s
PART EVPS-BASEMost chosen
III

Base

€5.50/mo

billed €66.00 oncesave 20% vs 6-month

vCPU
4 × EPYC
Memory
8 GB DDR5
NVMe storage
100 GB NVMe
Traffic
8 TB
Port
2.5 Gbit/s
PART EVPS-WORKREV. D
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Work

€10.40/mo

billed €124.80 oncesave 19% vs 6-month

vCPU
6 × EPYC
Memory
16 GB DDR5
NVMe storage
200 GB NVMe
Traffic
12 TB
Port
2.5 Gbit/s
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Edge latency

Latency from Toronto

Modelled from great-circle distance between our own sites — not a probe measurement.

Ashburn, US7 ms
New York, US8 ms
Dallas, US19 ms
Miami, US19 ms
Mexico City, MX31 ms
Seattle, US30 ms
Los Angeles, US33 ms
Reykjavík, IS38 ms

Hardware standard

cpu
AMD EPYC 9354P — Genoa, Zen 4, 3.25 GHz base / 3.80 GHz boost
memory
384 GB DDR5-4800 ECC registered per host
storage
Samsung PM9A3 Gen4 NVMe, RAID-10, hot spare per chassis
network
Dual 25 GbE to separate leaf switches, LACP
power
A+B feeds, N+1 UPS, on-site diesel with 72 h fuel
hypervisor
KVM on Linux 6.12 LTS, nested virtualisation enabled
oversubscription
3:1 on fair-share plans, 1:1 on dedicated-core plans

Test file

198.51.59.10

Open. We peer with anyone at any exchange where we are both present.

Looking glass
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Questions

Questions about hosting in Canada

01Does a server in Toronto keep my data under Canadian law?
The disk sits in Canada, so Canadian law is what applies to it, and we respond only to orders valid in the jurisdiction the metal is in. What we will not do is give you a compliance attestation — whether Canadian residency satisfies your obligation is a question for your own counsel, not for a hosting company.
02Toronto or New York, given they are a short hop apart?
They are, and if the border is irrelevant to you New York has more of everything: 880 Gbit/s against 340, 47 peers against 24, two exchanges against one. Toronto exists for the case where the border is the whole point, and for Canadian eyeball traffic that should not leave the country to reach you.
03How many IP addresses do I get?
One dedicated IPv4 and a routed /64 of IPv6 with every plan. Up to eight extra IPv4 addresses can be added at €1.20 each per month, assigned from the region's own prefix so geolocation stays consistent. A routed /48 of IPv6 is €2 a month if you are running your own network behind us.
04Is DDoS protection included?
Yes, on every plan, with no separate charge and no traffic threshold. Volumetric attacks are absorbed by hardware scrubbers at the edge and mitigation engages in under four seconds. The advanced tier adds layer-7 scrubbing and rules you write yourself, which matters for game servers and public APIs but not for much else.
05Is port 25 open? Can I run a mail server?
Port 25 is closed by default on new instances and opened on request — send a ticket saying what you are sending and to roughly how many recipients. It usually takes under an hour. Custom reverse DNS on both v4 and v6 is self-service from the console, which is the part that actually determines whether your mail lands.
06Which region should I pick?
The one closest to your users, not to you. Every location costs the same, so there is no reason to compromise. The locations page lists median round trip from residential probes in each metro, and there is a live latency test on every site page. If you are unsure, Frankfurt and Amsterdam reach the most people in the fewest milliseconds.
07Can I move an existing server to another country?
You can deploy a replacement in the new region and migrate, and support will run the transfer for you at no charge if you ask. What we cannot do is move an instance between regions in place — the disk stays where the metal is, and the IP address belongs to that region's prefix.

Payment from Canada

No local bank account, card or tax identifier is needed. Any of 42 crypto assets works from anywhere, including from Canada.