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 transfer to another country to explain.
Where your website is hosted affects how fast it loads, which privacy laws protect your customers’ data and which currency you pay in. Ex2 is a Canadian company and a CIRA-certified .CA registrar, with servers in Canada and support in English and French.
Faster pages for your visitors, your data under Canadian law, prices in Canadian dollars and help on your time zone.
Choose our Canadian data centre at checkout and your website files, databases and email are stored in Canada, under Canadian privacy law. No transfer to another country 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 English or French, 24/7/365 by chat and ticket, and by phone during business hours (Eastern time).
Prices and invoices in CAD: no currency conversion fees and no exchange-rate surprises when your plan renews.
Canada’s PIPEDA, and Québec’s Law 25 if you have customers there, expect 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 under Canadian law, and makes that question easy to answer.
With Canada selected, your website files, databases and email are stored on Canadian soil and governed by Canadian privacy law.
Law 25 covers businesses that collect personal information from people in Québec, not only businesses based there: if you sell to customers in Québec from Ontario or BC, it can apply to you too. Most of its rules have been in force since September 2023, and your contact forms, customer accounts, newsletters and online orders all count. Its first question is simple: where is the data?
Read the Law 25 FAQLaw 25 requires a privacy impact assessment before personal information leaves Québec. With your data hosted in Canada by a Canadian company, that assessment is simpler and your answer is 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 Québec’s Commission d’accès à l’information. Our support team answers 24/7, in English or French.
Free SSL for encryption in transit, daily backups, server-side malware protection and our own web application firewall (WAF) help you meet the “reasonable security measures” the law expects.
.CA domains are reserved for Canadians and Canadian organizations, so customers know at a glance that you’re local. Your .CA is free the first year with any annual or longer hosting plan, and part of every 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 |
| Data kept in Canada (PIPEDA, Law 25) | Yes, with the Canadian data centre | Cross-border transfer |
| Prices and invoices in Canadian dollars | Yes | Usually in US dollars |
| Support in English and French, 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. Keeping personal information in Canada, with a Canadian company, makes the assessment Law 25 requires before data leaves Québec much simpler than sending it to another country. You still need a privacy policy, a designated person in charge, consent for data collection and an incident log.
PIPEDA is Canada’s federal private-sector privacy law. Law 25 is Québec’s, and it goes further: privacy impact assessments before data leaves Québec, a named person in charge of privacy, and administrative penalties of up to $10 million or 2% of worldwide turnover. If you serve customers in Québec, both can apply to you.
Ex2 Inc. is a Canadian company, not a US entity. When you choose the Canadian data centre, your data is stored in Canada by a company under Canadian law. A US-headquartered host, by contrast, can be compelled under the CLOUD Act to hand over data it controls, wherever that data is stored.
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.