MapleDeploy vs Web Hosting Canada
Two Canadian hosts built for different jobs. Here's how to tell which one your project needs.
Web Hosting Canada (WHC) is a Montreal-based host that sells cPanel web hosting, VPS plans, managed WordPress, domains and email, with servers in Canada. MapleDeploy runs Coolify on a dedicated VM in Toronto, for apps you deploy from git or as containers. Shared hosting is much cheaper, because it's a different product. This page explains when each one fits.
Side by side
What you get
- WHC
- cPanel web hosting, or a VPS
- MapleDeploy
- Dedicated VM with your own Coolify instance
Control panel
- WHC
- cPanel
- MapleDeploy
- Coolify
Built for
- WHC
- WordPress and PHP sites, email, domains
- MapleDeploy
- Apps deployed from git or containers, with their databases
Location
- WHC
- Servers in Canada
- MapleDeploy
- Toronto, Canada
Entry pricing
- WHC
- Web hosting from $2.79 CAD/mo, cPanel VPS from $56.48 CAD/mo
- MapleDeploy
- From $45 CAD/mo
When WHC is the right choice
For a WordPress site, a PHP site or a small business site with email, WHC is the better fit and the better price. Its web hosting plans are listed from $2.79 CAD a month, with cPanel, SSL, backups and email included, and it also sells domains.
If you want a cPanel server of your own, its VPS plans from $56.48 CAD include cPanel/WHM, and WHC offers management that covers OS, kernel and PHP updates. Teams who know cPanel well have no reason to leave it for a site like that.
When MapleDeploy is the right choice
MapleDeploy fits when your project is an application rather than a website: a Node.js, Python or Go app, a Docker image, a worker, or a stack of services with a Postgres or Redis database alongside.
You deploy with a git push or from a container image, and Coolify builds and runs it. Databases and common tools install from one-click services. Our article on what matters in Canadian web hosting covers how the hosting market got here.
What MapleDeploy handles
MapleDeploy runs the server and Coolify together, on a dedicated VM in Toronto.
- 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
If a cPanel plan does what you need, it will cost far less than a MapleDeploy server. WHC's web hosting is listed from $2.79 CAD a month as an introductory price on an annual plan, with a regular price of $9.99 CAD.
MapleDeploy starts at $45 CAD/month for a dedicated VM with 4 GB RAM, 2 vCPUs and 35 GB of storage, with no per-project or usage fees. That's closer to WHC's cPanel VPS range, listed from $56.48 CAD a month billed annually. Starter and Pro include a 30-day free trial.
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