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A community dedicated to buying Canadian products.
Une communauté dédiée à l'achat de produits Canadiens.
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1. Posts must be related to buying Canadian-made goods and / or using Canadian-owned services
2. Absolutely no bigotry will be tolerated. This includes, but is not limited to, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, etc.
3. AI Content Policy
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Tolerated: AI-generated post summaries
4. Only content in French and English is permitted
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1. Les poteaux doivent être en lien avec l'achat de produits et / ou de services opérés par des canadiens
2. Aucune bigoterie ne sera tolérée. Ça comprend, mais sans se limiter à, le racisme, le sexisme, l’homophobie, la transphobie, etc.
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4. Seul le contenu en français et en anglais n'est toléré
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If you're fine to either get your hands dirty, or a kind friend's, check out Xenyth Hosting
my hands are filthy so that's fine
I signed for Xenyth a couple months ago and it took them 8 business days from the time that I signed up, to the time that they "approved" my account and I could log in and provision services. I can't imagine this company will still be around in a few years.
Honestly, this entire thread is depressing. None of these companies compete with US or European cloud providers. They either have websites designed in 1992, are IT service companies masquerading as PaaS, seem to be poorly run, or their pricing is terrible.
They run a Tier 2 networking service, including peering with a lot of big exchanges. They'll be around for a while... And have been so far...
Hetzner does the same shit for ID verification/provisioning, it's all related to anti spam and anti malicious use.
I host at home but use Xenyth as a reverse proxy, that's honestly what many people who are comfortable to run their own server should do; protect your home IP.
Yeah, but Hetzner's physical address on their website isn't a PO box...
What a weird thing to focus on, are you planning to go visit your VPS in person?
GoCode is the parent company, and you can see they offer colo in an Equinox datacenter. I imagine this might be a one person contracting team that uses a PO Box for home address privacy (as I do myself for my business purposes)
You opened the door by making the comparison with Hetzner. What rationale is there to an 8 business day response to a new sign up? They're not running a police background check, lol. If you don't want fraud, you take a credit card up front and preauth it. It just tells me they're not serious about business and it tells me that if something goes wrong with my services with them, I can expect no response for a week. It's a ridiculous way to do business, and I can't imagine trusting them with anything I cared about because of that.
Equinix is legit and Xenyth's actual offerings and the way they write about their network + colo is what made me consider them in the first place, because they do seem competent. But if they're not paying attention to sales leads, and they're trying to compete with AWS/GCloud/Azure, good luck...