Your VMs are a bit pricier than some other larger services located in other parts of the world - which I understand. I hope you are able to scale to the point where you can lower these prices.

Are there any legal or other reasons I, a resident of Canada, should host my services in Canada rather than in Europe or US?

Thanks for taking a look! You are correct that we are not competing with the cheapest offerings available there are two key things that are different with us compared to some low-cost providers (like Hetzner):

1. Our prices are in CAD and we bill in CAD, not USD. For Canadian residents this saves on exchange-rate uncertainty. Although sometimes people miss the C$ part and compare it with USD pricing - looking to make this more visible.

2. We don't have limits on transfers, but bandwidth. Hetzner, for example gives you limited amount of transfer for your money. They probably want to stop abuse but it limits legitimate users as well, even though it costs them no more money to transfer the extra bits.

(I use and like Hetzner, not trying to throw shade on them, just using as an example).

> Are there any legal or other reasons I, a resident of Canada, should host my services in Canada rather than in Europe or US?

Certain industries in Canada are regulated and need to be hosted locally. However, we are not trying to appeal to that. Instead, we want to focus on physically-local hosting because we believe that the world needs more small-scale ISPs, not centralization into big hyper-scalers. The collateral benefits are incidental: like being able to sue in Canada, and being subject to Canadian digital privacy laws (e.g. the DPA).