Cloud Hosting Linux Plans


Canadian Web Hosting is one of the top Canadian web host that has servers and datacenters located in Canada. We provide 24/7 support with all of our plans including telephone, email and chat.

Our Cloud Linux Hosting is designed to maximize uptime for your website and emails, and gives every customer the benefits of the cloud without the need to invest in expensive hardware or complicated load-balanced, multi-server configurations. Each cloud server utilizes automatic failover to keep your site online, and with the additional of Litespeed technology the servers are faster than ever.

The Standard Cloud Linux Hosting plans are built on our Xen Cloud infrastructure with enterprise grade hardware and utilize Cpanel Control Panel software with CentOS.

Spam and Virus scanner is a standard feature and Ksplice technology is installed on all shared Linux hosting servers.

Web Hosting Plans Comparison

If these plans don't meet your needs please check out our other hosting packages. Or email our sales dept and we'll make a custom plan.

 PLANS CA Cloud Value CA Cloud Pro

The price will never increase as long as you keep your account with us.

 1 Year $5.95/m $12.95 /m

By paying 2 years in advance, you will receive additional savings

 2 Year $4.95/m $11.95/m

By paying 3 years in advance, you will receive additional savings

 3 Year $4.95/m $10.95/m

By paying 5 years in advance, you will receive additional savings

 5 Year $3.95/m $9.95/m

By paying 10 years in advance, you will receive additional savings

 10 Year $3.95/m $6.95/m

We do not charge any setup fees on any hosting accounts.

 Setup Fee FREE FREE

We have no contracts and no hidden fees! You are free to cancel your web hosting at any time without cancellation fees.

 No Contract Yes Yes

We take Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Paypal, Cheque, Money Order, Interac Email Transfers and Western Union. For more information, email our sales dept.

 Payment Options Various Various

We provide 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and 365 days a year via telephone and chat support as well as provide an e-mail based trouble ticket system that you can use to get higher level support.

 24x7 Support Yes Yes

Our control panel gives you to option to make an 'instant' backup of your entire cPanel account. It will archive your account and provide you with a link to download the backup. You can then use this backup file to restore your account on our servers if need be. We also backup the server weekly and monthly to a remote backup server so your content is retained.

 Backups Yes Yes

You can upgrade your plan at any time.
The remaining duration on current plan will be used as credits toward upgraded plan.

 No Hassle Plan Upgrades Yes Yes

We guarantee that if for any reason during your in two months with us you decide to cancel we will issue a full refund within 24 hours.

 60 Day Money Back Guarantee Yes Yes

We guarantee that your site will be up 99.99% of the time we host it. This guarantee includes both network and server failures. If your site isn't up 99.99% in any one month we will issue a full refund for the month.

 99.99% Uptime Guarantee Yes Yes

LiteSpeed hosting is up to 9 times faster than Apache hosting, process PHP 50% faster, and process SSL 3 times faster! If your site works on Apache, it will work faster on Canadian Web Hosting servers.

LiteSpeed Web Server Yes Yes


Email Features

We include SquirrelMail, Horde, Roundcube and Atmail with all our hosting packages . Web mail allows you to send and receive emails online by going to yoursite.com/webmail.

 Webmail Support Yes Yes

This is the number of POP accounts you get. POP accounts are used to send and receive emails through programs such as Outlook Express or Thunderbird.

 POP3 Accounts Unlimited Unlimited

Mail box aliases will allow you to setup multiple email addresses to go to a single mail box.

 E-Mail Alias Yes Yes

You can setup your email addresses so when they receive mail they will automatically reply back with your message.

 Autoresponders Yes Yes

A catch all email address will receive all emails delivered to non existent email addresses.

If you would like this feature enabled, please e-mail support.

 Catch All Alias Yes Yes

This will significantly reduce email spam and virii.

 ASSP (Email Spam and Virus Filtering) Yes Yes

You can setup a mail forwarder. Doing this will forward all your mail to any email address you wish.

 Mail Forwarding Yes Yes

We support Internet Message Access Protocol. IMAP permits a client email program to access remote message stores as if they were local.

IMAP Yes Yes

We allow you to use our servers to send outgoing mail.

 SMTP Yes Yes
Plan Details

Bandwidth can be best described as gas for a car. If your website runs out of bandwidth nobody will be able to visit it. 1GB of bandwidth is equal to over 100,000 hits. The average account with us uses less than 2 GB of bandwidth a month. Your bandwidth number used will reset back to zero on the first of every month.

 Bandwidth Unlimited Unlimited

Storage is basically the disk space allocated for emails and web content.

 Storage Unlimited Unlimited

Ability to host additional domain names under one hosting plan.
If you are looking to sell hosting please check out our Reseller plans.

Add-on domains Unlimited Unlimited

A normal domain name looks like www.domain.com while a sub domain looks like sub.domain.com.
For example blogs.canadianwebhosting.com is a sub domain name of our site www.canadianwebhosting.com.

 Subdomains Yes Yes

You can host unlimited parked domain names under one hosting plan. The additional domain names are aliased to the main domain name. For abcd.com will show the same content as your main name, abc.com.

 Parked domains Yes Yes

FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. Having multiple FTP accounts will allow you to give friends and employees their own FTP account. This will allow you to give them as little or as much access to your website as you choose.

 FTP Support Yes Yes

Anonymous ftp allows the public to upload, download, or view files in a specified directory. (no login required)

 Anonymous FTP Yes Yes

Unique ip address mainly used for secure ecommerce sites.

 Dedicated IP × Yes

More secure, efficient, and portable version of SSH that includes SFTP, which is functionally similar to FTP, but is SSH2 encrypted

 SSH2 × Yes

SSL certificate will encrypt information such as credit card which will give your visitors the confidence to make purchases on your website. Web sites that are e-commerce based are generally required to have an SSL to accept credit cards. Free RapidSSL valued at $59.

SSL Certificate × Yes, 1st Year Free

cPanel will be your hosting control panel. cPanel allows you to monitor the amount of bandwidth used, space used, create e-mail addresses, sub domains, MySQL databases, and much more instantly!
For demo, visit: http://www.cpanel.net/products/cpanelwhm/try-demo.html

 Cpanel Yes Yes

Softaculous allows you to install over 200+ scripts instantly. For a list of scripts,
visit http://www.canadianwebhosting.com/scripts.asp

Softaculous Yes Yes
Control Panel Features

Simple wizard that explains the features of the control panel.

 Getting Started Wizard Yes Yes

Each section of the control panel has video tutorials to help you do certain tasks.

 Video Tutorials Yes Yes

You can upload your files directly from our control panel via the Web Based File Manager. You can get to this by logging into your cPanel account and clicking the File Manager icon.

 File Manager Yes Yes

The Web Disk allows you to easily drag and drop files to your hosting account just like they are part of your home computer.

Web Disk Yes Yes

Allows you to make a custom error page for anyone who visits a non-existent page of your site.

Custom Error Pages Yes Yes

Hotlinking is when another site is linking to your images or files. Hotlink protection will stop them from stealing your bandwidth.

 Hotlinking Protection Yes Yes

Password protect a directory and nobody can view its contents without a password .

 Password Protect Directories Yes Yes

Put a hit counter on your site instantly so you can track the number of visitors.

 Page Counters Yes Yes

Formmail is a form that will email you all the info when filled out.

 Formmail Yes Yes

Currently supported online journals include b2evolution, Nucleus and Wordpress.

 Blog Yes Yes

We support the following content management systems, Drupal, Geeklog, Joomla, Mambo, PHP-Nuke, phpWCMS, phpWebsite, Post-Nuke, Siteframe, Typo3, and Xoops

 Portals Yes Yes

Currently we support phpBB and SMF.

 Forums (Discussion Boards) Yes Yes

Increase traffic to your site through by creating an XML Sitemap and submitting the results to the major search engines each week. This is very effective for customers looking to build traffic, or who make frequent changes to their sites.

 XML Sitemap Submission Yes Yes

All accounts come with phpMyAdmin preinstalled. PhpMyAdmin allows for easy management of MySQL databases.

 phpMyAdmin Yes Yes

All accounts come with phpPgAdmin preinstalled. PhpPgAdmin allows for easy management of PostgresSQL databases.

 phpPgAdmin Yes Yes
Advanced Features

PHP is a server side HTML embedded scripting language. All accounts come with support for version 5+.

 Php 5 Yes Yes

MySQL is the world's most popular open source database. Many forums and other database driven programs require MySQL to run. All servers use 5+ at this time.
If you require version 4.1+, email sales@canadianwebhosting.com.

MySQL Yes Yes

PostgreSQL is a free software object-relational database management system. All servers use 8.2+.

 PostgresSQL Yes Yes

Perl is one of the most common CGI scripting languages used today. We have version 5.8.+ currently installed on our servers.

 Perl Yes Yes

Python is a programming/scripting language that can be used on many different computers and operating systems.

 Python Yes Yes

CGI stands for Common Gateway Interface. CGI is one method by which a web server can obtain data from (or send data to) databases, documents, and other programs, and present that data to viewers via the web.
A CGI program can be written in any programming language, but Perl is one of the most popular.

CGI Yes Yes

Server Side includes, refers to Perl based HTML commands that direct a server to generate on-the-fly contact for web pages.

 SSI Yes Yes

Crontab is a process in Unix systems that uses a Daemon called cron to execute commands for the user at a certain time.

 Cron Yes Yes

ImageMagick is a robust collection of tools and libraries to read, write, and manipulate an image in many formats. We stay up to date on the latest version.

 ImageMagick Yes Yes

GD is an ANSI library dynamic creation of images. GD creates PNG and JPEG images, among other formats. We stay up to date with the latest GD version.

 GD Library Yes Yes

Need a special module for your program to work? We will install it free of charge within 24 hours.

 Free Module Installation Yes Yes

Lets you redirect pages of your site to any url you want.

Redirect URL Yes Yes

IP deny manager allows you to block whoever you want from being able to visit your site.

 IP Deny Manager Yes Yes

Apache handlers allow you to control what Apache will do with certain file types.

 Apache Handlers Yes Yes

Mime types tell browsers how to handle specific extensions.

MIME Types Yes Yes
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Tools by Attracta(TM)

Designed to build traffic and increase your online visibility

 Teraffic Builder Yes Yes

Attracta crawls your site and submits enhanced sitemap of your website to Google, Bing and Yahoo

 XML Sitemap Submission 5-page Starter 5-page Starter

Your website is analyzed for any broken links or errors that may adversely affect your page strength with the major search engines

 Error Reports Upgrade Option Upgrade Option

Improve your local search listings

 Local Search Listings Upgrade Option Upgrade Option

High level visibility into your site that give your enhanced visibility into your website and areas for improvement

 Dashboard and Analysis Yes Yes

Improve your visibility with Attracta's Link-Building Directory

 Link-Building Directory Yes Yes
Web / FTP Statistics

Get the most accurate Unique Visitors and Click Paths information in the industry.
See where your traffic is coming from - search engines, banner ads, referrals, email campaigns and more Analyze downloads, bandwidth usage, errors, and much more that is only possible with software-based web analytics.
Visit http://awstats.sourceforge.net for more info.

 AWStats Yes Yes

Webalizer displays in depth traffic statistics for your site.
Visit http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer for more information

 Webalizer Yes Yes

Analog is another open source web statistics program. Visit http://www.analog.cx for more information.

Analog Yes Yes

You will have access to download your sites raw logs.

 Raw Log Manager Yes Yes

The referrer log will tell you what sites your traffic is coming from.

 Referrer Logs Yes Yes

The error log will tell you if anyone is getting errors and where.

 Error Logs Yes Yes

This function will show the last 300 people that have accessed your site.

 Latest Visitors Stats Yes Yes



All prices are in Canadian Dollars.