MapleDeploy vs Elestio
Both give you a managed, dedicated VM. They differ on who runs the hardware and whose law applies.
Elestio is a managed hosting platform based in Dublin. It deploys open-source apps from its catalog, and your own code through CI/CD pipelines, to dedicated VMs on a cloud provider and region you pick. MapleDeploy is managed Coolify on a dedicated VM in Toronto, on Canadian-owned infrastructure. This page covers how each one deploys, what it costs, and where your data is hosted.
Side by side
What you get
- Elestio
- Managed apps or CI/CD pipelines on dedicated VMs
- MapleDeploy
- Dedicated VM with your own Coolify instance
Deploys
- Elestio
- Pipelines from GitHub, GitLab or a Docker registry, or a catalog app
- MapleDeploy
- Git push or container image, through Coolify
Infrastructure
- Elestio
- Your choice of about 10 cloud providers, or your own VM
- MapleDeploy
- LunaNode, a Canadian-owned provider
Canadian locations
- Elestio
- Toronto (DigitalOcean, Linode), Canada (AWS Lightsail), Beauharnois (OVHcloud)
- MapleDeploy
- Toronto
OS updates
- Elestio
- Minor updates applied weekly by default; major versions by cloning to a new VM
- MapleDeploy
- Security updates applied automatically, with kernel reboots in a fixed window
Customer contract
- Elestio
- Elestio Limited, under Irish law
- MapleDeploy
- Ontario business, under Ontario law
Pricing
- Elestio
- From $11 USD/mo per service, billed hourly, varies by provider
- MapleDeploy
- From $45 CAD/mo
When Elestio is the right choice
Elestio's catalog is its strength. It runs more than 400 open-source tools as managed services, each on its own VM, so you can stand up a database, a Git server or an analytics tool without installing it yourself. Its CI/CD pipelines take your code from GitHub, GitLab or a Docker registry and deploy it to a new VM it creates, or one you already run.
It also gives you a wide choice of where to run. You pick from about ten cloud providers and more than a hundred regions, which suits teams that already standardize on a provider or need regions outside Canada. Its starting price is low, and it bills by the hour.
How the two compare on hosting in Canada
Elestio can put your VM in Canada. Its provider pages list Toronto on DigitalOcean and Linode, a Canadian region on AWS Lightsail, and Beauharnois on OVHcloud. The VM then runs on that provider's infrastructure: DigitalOcean, Akamai (which owns Linode) and Amazon are US companies, and OVHcloud is French. Your contract is with Elestio Limited, under the laws of Ireland.
That distinction matters to some teams and not to others. Jurisdiction follows the company, not the data centre, which is why US providers with Canadian regions remain subject to the CLOUD Act.
MapleDeploy runs on Canadian infrastructure in Toronto, with a privately owned Canadian provider that has no US parent company. Your code and your data are hosted under Canadian jurisdiction, on infrastructure built for PIPEDA compliance, on every plan.
What MapleDeploy handles
MapleDeploy runs the server and the Coolify instance together. You get a dedicated VM in Toronto, ready in minutes, and you deploy through the Coolify dashboard.
- 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
Elestio's plans start at $11 USD a month per managed service. Prices vary by provider and VM size, and are billed by the hour; a small DigitalOcean instance, which can run in Toronto, is around $13 USD a month. Each catalog app runs on its own VM, and pipelines can share a VM you choose as their target.
MapleDeploy starts at $45 CAD/month for a dedicated VM with 4 GB RAM, 2 vCPUs and 35 GB of storage. Your apps, databases and one-click services share that server, with no per-project or usage fees. Starter and Pro include a 30-day free trial.
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