Burnaby’s best affordable hosting for WordPress and Drupal sites
Plenty of Burnaby businesses, schools, BCIT-area nonprofits and creative agencies still run on Drupal — and plenty more on WordPress. The good news: both run beautifully on the same managed Linux stack at $5–$35 CAD/month.
PHP 8.xRecent runtime, tuned for both
NVMeStorage on every plan
CDNCloudflare in front by default
DailyOff-site backups (30 days)
Why one stack runs both
WordPress and Drupal are both PHP/MySQL applications. The differences are in defaults: WordPress wants a quick OPcache and a page cache; Drupal wants a slightly larger PHP-FPM pool, an APCu/Redis bin cache, and patient I/O for the cron pipeline. Both fit comfortably on the same Linux managed plan once those knobs are turned.
Need
WordPress
Drupal
PHP 8.x
Yes
Yes (10/11 require it)
OPcache
Yes
Yes
Redis / APCu
Object cache
Bin cache
MySQL/MariaDB
InnoDB defaults
InnoDB defaults
Cron
WP-cron over HTTP
Drush cron via system cron
Plugin / module updates
Manual or managed
Composer + Drush
Locally supported hosting means faster fixes when something breaks.
Burnaby organizations that fit each tier
Starter ($5/mo)
Brochure WordPress, small Drupal community sites, BCIT student-club sites. Up to ~5k monthly visits.
Standard ($15/mo)
Active WP blog or content marketing site; Drupal site with Webform + 30+ contributors; small membership.
Pro ($35/mo)
WooCommerce or Drupal Commerce; regulated workloads; sites needing advanced WAF rules and priority response.
Hosting plans
Website hosting plans
Current Metro Vancouver IT hosting plans with secure checkout. Pricing and purchase buttons are shared with the main pricing page.
Starter
Small sites and personal projects
$5CAD / month · or $60 / year
Storage: 5 GB NVMe
Bandwidth: 50 GB/mo
CDN Cloudflare & WAF protected
Free SSL + HTTP/2
Daily off-site backups (30-day retention)
Uptime monitoring & email alerts
SiteWorx access
One-click app installer (Softaculous)
Most popular
Standard
Growing businesses and marketing sites
$15CAD / month · or $180 / year
Storage: 15 GB NVMe
Bandwidth: 200 GB/mo
CDN Cloudflare & WAF protected
Free SSL + HTTP/2
Daily off-site backups (30-day retention)
Uptime monitoring & email alerts
SiteWorx access
One-click app installer (Softaculous)
Email deliverability setup (SPF, DKIM)
Pro
Heavier sites and regulated workloads
$35CAD / month · or $420 / year
Storage: 40 GB NVMe
Bandwidth: 500 GB/mo
CDN Cloudflare & WAF protected
Free SSL + HTTP/2
Daily off-site backups (30-day retention)
Uptime monitoring & email alerts
SiteWorx access
One-click app installer (Softaculous)
Email deliverability setup (SPF, DKIM)
Advanced WAF rules management
Priority support & incident response
Moving from Pantheon, Acquia, Bluehost or GoDaddy
Pantheon → Metro Vancouver IT: we pull the live tarball, restore on staging, switch when DNS is ready. Composer-based Drupal sites just work.
Acquia → Metro Vancouver IT: Cloud Hooks need to be replaced with system cron + deploy scripts; we do this as part of migration.
Bluehost / GoDaddy → Metro Vancouver IT: WP-CLI or All-in-One WP Migration. Most sites finish in < 4 hours.
Frequently asked questions
Can the same plan host both WordPress and Drupal?
Yes — both run on PHP/MySQL and are happy on the same managed Linux stack. We pre-tune Apache/Nginx, OPcache and PHP-FPM differently for each, but you don’t need a separate plan.
Is Drupal slower than WordPress?
Out of the box, Drupal is slightly heavier per request — but with a tuned PHP-FPM pool, OPcache, and a CDN in front, the difference disappears for almost every small-business site.
What about plugin/module updates?
WordPress core, plugins, themes and Drupal core/contrib modules can all be on a managed update cadence — we handle weekly minor updates and monthly major ones for care-plan customers.
Do you migrate from existing Bluehost / HostGator / GoDaddy / Pantheon accounts?
Yes — for free. Most migrations finish the same business day, and we keep the old host live until your domain is pointed and tested.
Need a Burnaby host that does both?
Tell us which CMS you run today and we will migrate it for free, with no downtime.
