Colocataires
Host with Friends: Colocate your server in our rack in Ottawa, Canada or host your Virtual Private Server on our shared infrastructure.
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All of our hosting comes with your choice of operating system and distribution, unlimited bandwidth and a /56 of IPv6 space.
We will gladly host your Debian, Guix, NixOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD or Illumos machine. We'll give Haiku or 9front our best try.
We operate a shared IPv4-to-IPv6 HTTPS proxy and an IPv6-to-IPv4 NAT64/DNS64 service, as well as an SSH jump-box so you can access IPv6 hosts from an IPv4-only Internet connection or access the base-board management controller of your colocated machine.
All of our machines are IPv6 only by default. If you need your own dedicated IPv4 address, that will cost C$1/month (or C$12/year on annual plans).
Colocataires is registered for HST in Ontario. Ontario residents will pay 13% HST. Other Canadian residents will pay 5% GST. International customers do not pay sales tax on our services. We charge in Canadian dollars (or as we call them: dollars).
We bill on the 1st of the month. When you sign up with us, the period until billing starts is your "move-in time", provided for free so you can move from another provider without double-paying. You can also evaluate the service and decide not to proceed; no bad feelings.
All disks on our virtual machines are backed by at least two storage machines (using either DRBD or Ceph), so there's no single point of failure.
| Package | CPU | RAM | Disk | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Large VM | 4vCPU | 8GiB | 50GiB | C$20/month |
| Small VM | 2vCPU | 4GiB | 25GiB | C$10/month |
| Tiny VM | 1vCPU | 2GiB | 12GiB | C$60/year † |
| IPv4 Address | C$1/month | |||
† At C$5/month processing fees become significant for us, so we only offer our smallest package annually pre-paid (after your free move-in period).
| Package | Space | Power | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| TinyMiniMicro | Loose on a shared shelf | 50W | C$50/month |
| Rackmount | Dedicated 1U | 100W | C$100/month |
| Extra 1U (includes an extra 100W) | C$100/month | ||
| Or Extra 100W (includes an extra 1U) | C$100/month | ||
| IPv4 Address | C$1/month | ||
Our colocation pricing is based on either space or power (whichever you use more of). Power is based on average usage under normal load, not your PSU rating (which might be 1000W for a server which only idles at 90W).
For example, a 2U HP ProLiant G8 server with 2x 470W PSUs and two Xeons only actually draws between 90W and 150W (depending on PCIe cards and disks).
Pricing example: if you have a 2U server drawing 180W on average and needing an IPv4 address, you would pay C$201/month.
We do not charge for extra switch ports if your out-of-band management requires one.