About

Egress & Instance is an independent information site for Canadian small and mid-sized businesses that buy website hosting, virtual servers, dedicated servers or public cloud capacity. It explains how pricing is built, line by line, so you can read a quote or an invoice, estimate the cost in Canadian dollars and choose the type of hosting that fits your workload.

The guides cover hosting types, bill drivers such as compute, storage, data transfer, IP addresses, backups, support and licences, commitment discounts, US-dollar billing and exchange rates, GST/HST, QST and PST, cost control, migration and exit costs, and Canadian rules on data location and privacy, including PIPEDA and Quebec's Law 25.

We do not rank, score or review providers, we do not publish testimonials or case studies, and we do not invent prices. Amounts are illustrative unless a guide names the source and the date. Tax, privacy and security rules change; each guide links to the official source to confirm them. This site is general information, not legal, tax, accounting or security advice: for regulated data, large contracts or tax questions, consult a qualified professional.

How this site is made

Egress & Instance is an independent information project. Guides are drafted with the help of AI writing tools and checked against official and primary sources before publication; see our Editorial Policy. We are not affiliated with any provider mentioned on the site and do not sell products or services.