Q&A · VER. 4.2
Questions about Toronto
The two answers people actually ask about this site, then the five we give everywhere.
This site
Toronto or a US site for Canadian users?
If Canadian law matters to your data — and for many Canadian customers it does — Toronto is the whole argument: 8 ms to New York and 9 to Ashburn means the US internet is not a detour, just a border. If US jurisdiction is fine and your users are American, the US sites cost the same and sit closer. Measure the law first, then the latency.
Is Toronto only for Canadian customers?
Mostly, and that is fine. The site is 8 ms from New York and Chicago, which makes it a perfectly good eastern-US backup node and the closest rack we run to the Great Lakes region. For redundancy pairs that want two countries, two grids and two IXes a short hop apart, Toronto and New York are exactly that: 8 ms and one border.
Everywhere
Which region should I pick?
Measure, then read. Median RTT decides most cases: pick the site closest to the users you already have, then check the local law if that matters to your data. We do not charge a regional premium, so the decision is never financial.
Is the price the same in every location?
Yes. A Nano costs €1.90 per month in Frankfurt and in São Paulo. There is no regional pricing tier, no 'emerging market' discount and no 'premium location' markup to optimise around.
Can I move a server to another site later?
Take a snapshot, deploy the same image at the destination, restore, update the DNS. The console does not yet automate the migration end-to-end, but nothing about the price changes if you redeploy somewhere else.
Is DDoS protection included?
Standard volumetric filtering is always on and always free at every site. If you need application-layer scrubbing with custom rules, the Advanced tier costs €3.90 per month per server.
What IP addresses do I get?
Every server ships with one dedicated IPv4 and a routed /64 of IPv6, both announced from the site you chose. Additional IPv4s are €1.20 per month each, up to eight per server.
Payments from Canada
Orders from Canada are handled exactly like every other order: checkout in euros, payment in Bitcoin, Monero or any of twenty-four assets, and the server provisions on the first network confirmation. No card, no bank, no name that has to match one.
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