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The United States is home to some of the World’s largest data centers and hosting companies. Each year, however, hundreds of American companies choose to relocate their hosting resources to Canada to be more secure and cut their hosting costs. But exactly what makes Canada so attractive for hosting websites and data?

 

 

Canada is the leader in privacy and security. Since 2005, Canada has enacted strict privacy laws that are fully compliant with those in the European Union. Canada is already a good hosting provider for Canadian and European companies, who may be breaking the law if private information isn’t adequately protected or made subject to US laws such as the Patriot Act by hosting this information in the United States. Hosting in Canada also means that private information is more effectively and legally safeguarded than in the US and potentially beyond the reach of US authorities.

 

 

Canada’s high-performance Internet backbones are highly reliable and highly integrated with Internet backbones in the US. Actually, thanks in part to our data centers’ proximity to major US cities, most of our American clients experience better performance hosting on our Canadian servers than they do when hosted in the United States!

 

Canada has easily accessible clean energy sources (Rackio datacenters are powered with clean hydro-electricity) and our colder weather means dramatically reduced infrastructure cooling costs, especially when compared to Texas, where most US datacenters are located.

 

 

By spending less on electricity and air conditioning, Canadian hosting companies are able to offer more competitive pricing than their US counterparts. But beyond simple operational costs, Canadian firms benefit from a generally weaker currency than the US Dollar which allows them to offer even better deals to our neighbors.

 

 

Canadians are nice. Everybody knows that, right? But what most people don’t know until they have experienced it is that Canada is among the countries with the highest overall customer service quality. We not only train our staff to master the most advanced technologies, but we also spend significant time making sure everyone at Rackio treats our customers right.