Sooner or later every Canadian founder hits the same moment. Paid acquisition is getting expensive, the next investor update needs a growth line that isn’t just ad spend, and someone says, “We should really do SEO.” So you search for help and land on a page of lists ranking the best SEO agency in Canada. Look closely and many of those lists were written by agencies that have placed themselves...

For a growing Windsor company, website performance comes down to three questions. Does the page load fast enough? Does it stay fast when traffic rises? Is customer data stored where you can account for it? Your hosting sits underneath all three. That is why Windsor web hosting decisions matter more than most owners expect: the server is involved in every page view, quote request, booking and checkout on your site....

A website that felt instant at 2,000 visitors a month rarely stays that way at 20,000. What makes this frustrating for growing Toronto companies is that the usual speed test keeps saying everything is fine. The homepage scores well, the hosting dashboard shows plenty of headroom, and yet customers complain that checkout hangs, search is sluggish and the member portal takes four seconds to open. Those two things are both...

Every St. John’s business that has a website is running a small stack of dependencies. There is the domain name that points everything to the right place, the hosting environment that serves the pages, the business email that arrives (or silently doesn’t), and the backups that restore everything if something goes wrong. Most owners build this stack once, then leave it alone. That is when the gaps open up. This...

St. John’s has spent the last decade building a technology sector that now contributes $1.8 billion to Newfoundland and Labrador’s provincial economy — up 24 per cent from 2016, according to data cited by techNL and The Dais at Toronto Metropolitan University. The city’s startups, ocean-tech firms, professional services companies, and trades businesses increasingly depend on a website that not only exists but performs. A slow or unreliable site costs...

Most guides to choosing a web host are feature comparisons: storage, bandwidth, number of email accounts. Those matter, but they are the easy part. Plan pages are designed to make features comparable. What a plan page is not designed to tell you is whether the company is what it says it is, and what its guarantees are actually worth. It also won’t tell you how the contract behaves at renewal,...