Location advantage
Why Montreal
All our infrastructure is in Montreal, and that's by choice. A few reasons the location works in your favour.
Canadian Data Sovereignty
Your data is governed by Canadian law — outside the reach of the US Patriot Act, PRISM, and similar surveillance programs. For businesses handling sensitive data, European clients, or anyone who values jurisdictional separation from US authorities, Canada offers meaningful legal protection.
Canada has strong privacy legislation (PIPEDA) and Quebec has its own additional privacy law (Law 25), providing an extra layer of protection.
Low Latency to US East
Montreal is approximately 530 km from New York City. Our network delivers single-digit millisecond latency to the US Northeast corridor: Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington DC. Your data sits under Canadian law while your users in New York see single-digit ping.
Test our network yourself — we publish Looking Glass, ping, and speedtest tools.
100% Renewable Power
Quebec's electricity grid runs on Hydro-Québec, which generates over 99% of its power from hydroelectric sources. This isn't offset accounting; the grid here really is hydro, one of the largest renewable grids in the world.
There's no green surcharge either, because renewable power is simply how Quebec's grid works. Every server we run is on it.
Natural Cooling Advantage
Montreal's cold winters (averaging −10°C in January) provide natural cooling for data center operations, reducing energy consumption for climate control. This translates to lower operating costs and a smaller environmental footprint.
World-Class Connectivity
Montreal is a major interconnection hub with multiple international fiber routes, submarine cable landings, and peering exchanges. Our multi-homed network connects through multiple upstream carriers for redundancy and optimal routing.
One Region, On Purpose
Plenty of hosts list a dozen regions with a rented rack and nobody on site at each one. We'd rather run one location properly: deeper redundancy, spare hardware on hand, and a network we know inside out.
To be upfront about the trade-off: we're Montreal-first, with some Buffalo dedicated servers. If your architecture genuinely needs multi-region, we're not the right fit for that part of it. If a single well-built region works for your workload, this is what that looks like.