MapleDeploy vs Canner
Two Canadian platforms. One gives you a dedicated server, the other a hosted platform with pooled resources.
Canner describes itself as 100% Canadian-owned, and so is MapleDeploy. Both host your apps in Canada, Canner in Quebec and MapleDeploy in Toronto. Where they differ is the shape of the product. Canner is a hosted platform with plans built around a pool of application memory. MapleDeploy gives you a dedicated VM running your own Coolify instance. This page covers what that means for resources, pricing and the platform underneath.
Side by side
Ownership
- Canner
- Canadian-owned, per Canner
- MapleDeploy
- Canadian-owned
Location
- Canner
- Quebec
- MapleDeploy
- Toronto
Architecture
- Canner
- Hosted platform, pooled application memory
- MapleDeploy
- Dedicated VM per customer
Always-on apps
- Canner
- Two on Live, more as a paid add-on
- MapleDeploy
- Everything on your VM
Platform
- Canner
- Canner
- MapleDeploy
- Coolify (open source)
Entry pricing
- Canner
- Free (sleeps when idle), Live $9 CAD/mo
- MapleDeploy
- From $45 CAD/mo
When Canner is the right choice
Canner is a good fit for small projects and for trying ideas. Its free Starter plan needs no card, and its Live plan keeps two projects always on for $9 CAD a month. If your apps are light and you'd rather not think about servers at all, that is hard to beat on price.
It also covers a lot in one place, with git deploys, managed Postgres, object storage and scheduled jobs. It adds branch previews, a CLI, an API and an MCP server, as well as paid compliance and enterprise options. And like MapleDeploy, it hosts your data in Canada.
Dedicated resources vs a pooled plan
On Canner, your plan sets a pool of application memory that your projects share, and you buy more pooled or dedicated memory, storage or always-on slots as add-ons as you grow.
MapleDeploy gives each customer a dedicated VM. On Starter that's 4 GB of RAM, 2 vCPUs and 35 GB of storage, all yours. Deploy as many apps, databases and workers as fit, and they all run continuously, with no cold starts and no per-app charges. When you need more, you move to a bigger plan.
Open-source Coolify underneath
MapleDeploy runs Coolify, the open-source deployment platform, licensed under Apache 2.0. You deploy through the Coolify dashboard, with git push deploys and one-click services for databases and common tools.
Because Coolify is open source and free to self-host, the workflow you learn isn't tied to us. Our guide to self-hosting Coolify vs managed Coolify covers how the options compare.
What MapleDeploy handles
MapleDeploy runs the server and Coolify together, so you deploy through the dashboard and we look after the machine underneath.
- Security hardening. SSH key authentication, fail2ban, outbound SMTP blocking, and automatic security patches, applied before you first log in.
- OS patches. Operating system updates and kernel patches are applied for you. When a kernel update needs a reboot, it happens in a fixed 07:50 UTC window.
- Coolify itself. We run a public fork of Coolify that we rebase regularly against upstream. Changes are limited to Canadian branding and MapleDeploy integrations.
- Snapshots. Weekly full-server snapshots covering the OS, Coolify, containers, volumes and databases.
Snapshots are disaster recovery, not granular restores. For production databases, you should still set up Coolify's S3 database backups on a daily schedule.
Comparing the cost
For a single small app, Canner costs less: free if it can sleep, $9 CAD a month if it can't. The add-ons start to count as you add always-on apps, memory or dedicated databases.
MapleDeploy starts at $45 CAD/month for the whole VM, with no per-project or usage fees. It pays off when you run several services, or anything that needs to stay up and have resources of its own. Starter and Pro include a 30-day free trial.
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