Does Montreal hosting satisfy Quebec's Law 25 requirements?

Hosting in Montreal keeps your workloads inside Quebec, which addresses the core data-residency concern. Your legal team should verify how your specific data categories and processing activities map to Law 25 obligations.

Is Montreal a good choice if we serve both Quebec and the rest of Canada?

For Quebec-specific workloads, yes. If you also serve a significant user base in Ontario, BC, or the western provinces, a multi-city deployment — Montreal plus Toronto or Vancouver — keeps latency low across the country.

Cloud VPS Hosting in Montreal, Canada

Montreal: low-cost, low-latency Cloud VPS in Canada's French-language technology hub.

Why deploy in Montreal?

Montreal's abundant hydroelectric power makes it one of the most cost-efficient locations in North America to run compute infrastructure. That economic advantage, combined with in-province data residency for Quebec-regulated workloads, makes it a practical first choice for Canadian deployments that need to satisfy Quebec's Law 25 privacy requirements.

For platforms serving Quebec's French-language market — or French-speaking users across Canada — compute in Montreal eliminates the cross-border round-trip and puts your infrastructure inside the province where your users and data obligations are concentrated.

The problem hosting in Montreal solves

Law 25 requires a specific answer about where Quebec data lives

Quebec's privacy law imposes obligations that go beyond federal PIPEDA requirements, including stricter rules around cross-border data transfers and storage. Hosting in Montreal gives your legal team an unambiguous answer: the data is in Quebec.

Toronto or US hosting adds latency for Quebec users

Quebec-based users connecting to infrastructure in Toronto or on the US eastern seaboard absorb unnecessary round-trip time. Montreal hosting eliminates that overhead and serves the province's users from within the market they are in.

Why teams choose us in Montreal

In-province for Quebec Law 25 compliance

Montreal infrastructure keeps Quebec-facing workloads inside the province, satisfying the data-residency requirements of Canada's most stringent provincial privacy framework.

Cost-efficient Canadian infrastructure

Montreal's hydroelectric power advantage flows through to competitive infrastructure costs — more compute per dollar than many comparable North American locations.

Low latency across the French-language market

Serve Quebec's French-language internet users from in-province infrastructure and eliminate the latency that routing to Toronto or the US eastern seaboard introduces.

Built for teams deploying in Montreal

Quebec-facing platforms with Law 25 obligations

Quebec's Law 25 is among Canada's most prescriptive provincial privacy laws, with explicit requirements around data stored and processed within the province for Quebec residents. A Montreal deployment gives you in-province infrastructure and the clear, auditable data-residency answer that procurement teams and regulators expect.

Plans available in Montreal

General Purpose plans in Montreal

Plan	vCPU	RAM	Storage	Network	Price
1 vCPU · 1 GB	1	1024 MB	10 GB SSD/NVMe	IPv6 included	$0.0112/hr ~$8.00/mo	Deploy
1 vCPU · 1 GB	1	1024 MB	10 GB SSD/NVMe	IPv4 included	$0.0138/hr ~$10.00/mo	Deploy
1 vCPU · 1 GB	1	1024 MB	15 GB SSD/NVMe	IPv4 included	$0.0166/hr ~$12.00/mo	Deploy
1 vCPU · 2 GB	1	2048 MB	20 GB SSD/NVMe	IPv4 included	$0.0278/hr ~$20.00/mo	Deploy
2 vCPU · 2 GB	2	2048 MB	40 GB SSD/NVMe	IPv4 included	$0.0334/hr ~$24.00/mo	Deploy
2 vCPU · 2 GB	2	2048 MB	40 GB SSD/NVMe	IPv4 included	$0.0388/hr ~$28.00/mo	Deploy
2 vCPU · 4 GB	2	4096 MB	50 GB SSD/NVMe	IPv4 included	$0.0388/hr ~$28.00/mo	Deploy
3 vCPU · 4 GB	3	4096 MB	60 GB SSD/NVMe	IPv4 included	$0.0556/hr ~$40.00/mo	Deploy
4 vCPU · 8 GB	4	8192 MB	80 GB SSD/NVMe	IPv4 included	$0.0834/hr ~$60.00/mo	Deploy
6 vCPU · 16 GB	6	16384 MB	160 GB SSD/NVMe	IPv4 included	$0.1528/hr ~$110.00/mo	Deploy
8 vCPU · 32 GB	8	32768 MB	320 GB SSD/NVMe	IPv4 included	$0.2778/hr ~$200.00/mo	Deploy
16 vCPU · 64 GB	16	65536 MB	640 GB SSD/NVMe	IPv4 included	$0.5556/hr ~$400.00/mo	Deploy

High performance plans in Montreal

Plan	vCPU	RAM	Storage	Network	Price
1 vCPU · 2 GB	1	2048 MB	50 GB SSD/NVMe	IPv4 included	$0.0334/hr ~$24.00/mo	Deploy
1 vCPU · 4 GB	1	4096 MB	75 GB SSD/NVMe	IPv4 included	$0.0416/hr ~$30.00/mo	Deploy
2 vCPU · 8 GB	2	8192 MB	125 GB SSD/NVMe	IPv4 included	$0.0612/hr ~$44.00/mo	Deploy
4 vCPU · 16 GB	4	16384 MB	250 GB SSD/NVMe	IPv4 included	$0.1112/hr ~$80.00/mo	Deploy
8 vCPU · 32 GB	8	32768 MB	500 GB SSD/NVMe	IPv4 included	$0.1806/hr ~$130.00/mo	Deploy
12 vCPU · 64 GB	12	65536 MB	640 GB SSD/NVMe	IPv4 included	$0.2472/hr ~$178.00/mo	Deploy
16 vCPU · 128 GB	16	131072 MB	1024 GB SSD/NVMe	IPv4 included	$0.6112/hr ~$440.00/mo	Deploy
32 vCPU · 192000 MB	32	192000 MB	2048 GB SSD/NVMe	IPv4 included	$1.3888/hr ~$1,000.00/mo	Deploy

Bandwidth & networking. Every plan includes 200 GB of free outbound data transfer each month; additional transfer is billed at $0.09 per GB. Most plans include a public IPv4 address with IPv6 free on demand; IPv6-only sizes offer IPv4 as a paid add-on.

Questions about Montreal

Does Montreal hosting satisfy Quebec's Law 25 requirements?: Hosting in Montreal keeps your workloads inside Quebec, which addresses the core data-residency concern. Your legal team should verify how your specific data categories and processing activities map to Law 25 obligations.
Is Montreal a good choice if we serve both Quebec and the rest of Canada?: For Quebec-specific workloads, yes. If you also serve a significant user base in Ontario, BC, or the western provinces, a multi-city deployment — Montreal plus Toronto or Vancouver — keeps latency low across the country.

Storage may be SSD or NVMe unless a specific type is mentioned.
IPv6-only sizes can add a paid IPv4 address.
Billing is hourly and starts when the server is created. Prices are in USD and exclude applicable taxes.