Skiff 2
$ 7 /month
- vCPU
- 1 × shared
- RAM
- 2 GB
- Storage
- 40 GB NVMe SSD
- Transfer
- 3 TB
- IPv4 / IPv6
- 1 / /64 routed
🇨🇦 North America
VPS hosting in Montreal
Hydro-Québec power makes this one of the cheapest and cleanest kilowatt-hours in our fleet.
Edge5 EyesOutside GDPR territoryDMCA not applicable40 Gbit/s
Short answer
Montreal is a legal, practical home for a server bought without identity verification, because Canada sits in the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance, and the DMCA—a United States statute—does not bind a host there; local copyright law governs and generally demands a court order. OnionVPS has operated this region since 2022, with entry at $4 per month. You may host under an email address only.
- City
- Montreal
- Country
- 🇨🇦 Canada (CA)
- Region
- North America
- Tier
- Edge
- Intelligence alliance
- Five Eyes member
- GDPR applies
- No
- DMCA applies
- Not applicable — DMCA is US statute
- Online since
- 2022
- Uplink
- 40 Gbit/s
- Capabilities
- DDoS scrubbing · Native IPv6 /64 · NVMe storage · Custom ISO upload
- Coordinates
- 45.50, -73.57
Why hosting in Montreal looks the way it does
OnionVPS's Montreal site runs on Hydro-Québec power, which the editorial note calls one of the cheapest and cleanest kilowatt-hours in the fleet—a concrete reason to put always-on workloads here. The facility answers at 45.5, -73.57 with a 40 Gbit/s uplink and 12 Tbps of edge DDoS scrubbing included at every tier. Native IPv6 /64, NVMe storage, custom ISO upload, and three free snapshots come standard. It sits 9 ms from New York and Toronto, 13 ms from Ashburn.
Customers deploy latency-sensitive north-eastern traffic here: Montreal's nine-millisecond round trip to New York makes it a front-end for ad tech and gaming servers needing low ping to both Canada and the US East Coast. The cheap, clean Hydro-Québec power suits energy-hungry Chia plots or 24/7 machine-learning inference. Some run network telescopes or bulk archival, enjoying the low power cost.
Plans available in Montreal
Cutter 8
$ 34 /month
- vCPU
- 4 × dedicated
- RAM
- 8 GB
- Storage
- 160 GB NVMe SSD
- Transfer
- 10 TB
- IPv4 / IPv6
- 1 / /64 routed
Clipper 16
$ 92 /month
- vCPU
- 8 × dedicated
- RAM
- 16 GB
- Storage
- 400 GB NVMe Gen4 SSD
- Transfer
- 30 TB
- IPv4 / IPv6
- 1 / /64 routed
Hold 4
$ 22 /month
- vCPU
- 2 × shared
- RAM
- 4 GB
- Storage
- 2 TB Enterprise HDD
- Transfer
- 20 TB
- IPv4 / IPv6
- 1 / /64 routed
The hardened Bastion line is restricted to offshore and privacy-tier jurisdictions and is not available here.
Compare all plansEstimated round-trip latency from Montreal
| Location | Country | Estimated RTT |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 New York | United States | 9 ms |
| 🇺🇸 Ashburn | United States | 13 ms |
| 🇺🇸 Miami | United States | 33 ms |
| 🇬🇧 London | United Kingdom | 72 ms |
| 🇳🇱 Amsterdam | Netherlands | 76 ms |
| 🇩🇪 Frankfurt | Germany | 81 ms |
| 🇧🇷 São Paulo | Brazil | 112 ms |
| 🇯🇵 Tokyo | Japan | 142 ms |
| 🇦🇪 Dubai | United Arab Emirates | 145 ms |
| 🇿🇦 Johannesburg | South Africa | 176 ms |
| 🇸🇬 Singapore | Singapore | 202 ms |
| 🇦🇺 Sydney | Australia | 218 ms |
Estimates are computed from great-circle distance × 1.35 route factor, at 200 km/ms in fibre, plus 2 ms of equipment latency. They are a floor, not a measurement.
Frequently asked questions
Is Canada a good place to host a server?
Hydro-Québec power makes this one of the cheapest and cleanest kilowatt-hours in our fleet.
Is Canada in the Five, Nine or Fourteen Eyes?
Yes — Canada is a Five Eyes member. That is a legitimate consideration if state surveillance is in your threat model; it says nothing about the quality of the connectivity, which is why we operate here.
Does the DMCA apply to a server in Canada?
No. The DMCA is United States copyright statute and binds service providers situated in the US. A server in Canada is governed by Canada copyright law, which generally requires a court order rather than a private notice. Copyright still applies; only the enforcement mechanism differs.
How fast is Montreal from Europe and North America?
Estimated round trips are approximately 81 ms to Frankfurt and 13 ms to Ashburn. These are computed from great-circle distance rather than measured, so treat them as a floor.
Do I need to identify myself to order in Montreal?
No. Every OnionVPS location has the same signup: an email address you control and a cryptocurrency payment. No name, no address, no document, no card.
Does Canadian copyright law require a court order before a takedown?
Under OnionVPS's stated legal posture, the DMCA does not bind this host because it is US statute. Local Canadian copyright law applies, and it generally requires a court order before content is removed. That means a copyright claim must arrive through the proper legal channel, not as an informal DMCA-style notice, to force action.
What is the measured latency from Montreal to the nearest US cities?
Estimated round-trip times, great-circle based and not measured, are 9 ms to New York and Toronto, 13 ms to Ashburn, and 18 ms to Chicago. For any workload serving the northeastern US or eastern Canada, Montreal sits within single-digit milliseconds of two major interconnection hubs, which is competitive for latency-sensitive applications.
This page is general information, not legal advice.