Your data stays in Canada
Choose our Canadian data centre at checkout and your website files, databases and email are stored in Canada, under Canadian privacy law — no cross-border transfer to explain.
Where your website lives matters: for your visitors’ speed, for your customers’ privacy under Law 25 and PIPEDA, and for the trust your brand inspires. Ex2 is a Canadian company based in Québec City, a CIRA-certified .CA registrar, with servers in Canada.
Speed, privacy, currency, language and law: hosting at home removes friction at every step.
Choose our Canadian data centre at checkout and your website files, databases and email are stored in Canada, under Canadian privacy law — no cross-border transfer to explain.
The closer the server, the shorter the trip. Hosting in Canada cuts latency for visitors from Vancouver to Halifax, on NVMe servers with LiteSpeed caching.
Ex2 Inc. is registered in Québec and headquartered in Québec City. Your contract is governed by the laws of Québec and Canada, not by a foreign jurisdiction.
Register, renew and transfer your .CA directly with us. Your .CA is free the first year with any annual or longer hosting plan.
Real people answer in French or English, 24/7/365 by chat and ticket, and by phone during business hours on Canadian time.
Prices and invoices in CAD: no currency conversion fees and no exchange-rate surprises when your plan renews.
Québec’s Law 25 and Canada’s PIPEDA require you to know where personal information is stored and who can access it. Hosting with a Canadian company on Canadian servers keeps your website and your customers’ data inside Canada’s privacy framework, and makes that answer simple.
With Canada selected, your website files, databases and email are stored on Canadian soil and governed by Canadian privacy law.
Since September 2023, every business that collects personal information from people in Québec must comply with the Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector, better known as Law 25. Your contact forms, customer accounts, newsletters and e-commerce orders are all covered. Hosting in Canada is the simplest way to answer its first question: where is the data?
Read the Law 25 FAQLaw 25 requires a privacy impact assessment before personal information is communicated outside Québec. Hosting in Canada keeps that assessment short and your answer clear.
Every business must designate someone responsible for personal information. Ex2 has one too — and we can tell you exactly where your data lives.
Confidentiality incidents must be logged and, when serious, reported to the Commission d’accès à l’information. Our 24/7 bilingual team is on Canadian time when it matters.
Encryption in transit with free SSL, daily backups, server-side malware protection and a custom WAF on every plan help you meet the “reasonable security measures” the law expects.
.CA domains are reserved for Canadians and Canadian organizations, so your customers know at a glance that you are local. Your .CA is free the first year with any annual or longer hosting plan, and part of every .CA registration funds Canadian community initiatives through CIRA.
| What you get | Ex2 | Typical foreign host |
|---|---|---|
| Website hosted in Canada | Yes, Canadian data centre | Often in the United States |
| Canadian company, under Canadian law | Yes, Québec City | No, foreign jurisdiction |
| Law 25 and PIPEDA data residency | Yes, data stays in Canada | Cross-border transfer |
| Prices and invoices in Canadian dollars | Yes | Usually in US dollars |
| Support in French and English, 24/7 | Yes | Often English only |
| CIRA-certified .CA registrar | Yes | Not always |
| Free migration of your current site | Yes, no downtime | Varies |
For every annual plan, we plant a tree with Tree Canada to help restore Canadian forests.
Our servers run on renewable energy, and we offset our emissions with carbon credits.
1% of our revenue funds environmental projects, as a certified member of 1% for the Planet.
Our main data centres are in Canada and France, and we also offer the United States. You choose your server location when you order: pick Canada to keep your site and its data in the country.
Yes. Ex2 Inc. is registered in Québec and headquartered at 797 Lebourgneuf Boulevard in Québec City. Our terms are governed by the laws of Québec and the federal laws of Canada.
Hosting is one piece of compliance, not all of it. Storing personal information in Canada removes the need to assess a transfer outside Québec, which is one of Law 25’s requirements. You still need a privacy policy, a designated person in charge, consent for data collection and an incident log. Hosting in Canada makes the data-location part simple.
PIPEDA is Canada’s federal private-sector privacy law. Law 25 is Québec’s, and it goes further: mandatory privacy impact assessments before sending data outside Québec, a named privacy officer, and administrative penalties of up to $10 million or 2% of worldwide turnover. If you serve customers in Québec, both apply to you.
When you choose the Canadian data centre, your data is stored in Canada by a Canadian company. Ex2 Inc. is not a US entity, so we are not subject to US orders under the CLOUD Act the way a US-headquartered host would be.
No, you can host any domain with us. A .CA simply tells your customers you are Canadian, and it is free the first year with an annual or longer hosting plan.
Yes, and it is free. Our team migrates your files, databases and email, with no downtime.
Yes. Choose CAD as your currency and your prices and invoices are in Canadian dollars, with no conversion fee at renewal.
Pick a plan, choose Canada at checkout and we take care of the rest, including your free migration.