How Port Moody businesses cut costs with affordable web hosting
From Brewers Row to Newport Village to Suter Brook, Port Moody small businesses are quietly trimming their web hosting bill in half — without changing how the site looks, behaves or ranks.
Real numbers from a Port Moody audit
Site profile
Old plan (annual)
New plan (annual)
Saved
Restaurant — 8 pages, low traffic
~$430
$60 (Starter)
$370
Trade — service area pages, lead form
~$520
$60 (Starter)
$460
Wellness clinic — booking integration
~$580
$180 (Standard)
$400
E-commerce — 60 SKUs
~$840
$420 (Pro)
$420
Affordable hosting for Vancouver companies — fast, secure, and locally supported.
Where the savings come from
Flat pricing
No “intro then renewal” trick. Your month-13 invoice looks just like month-1.
No add-ons sold separately
Cloudflare WAF, free SSL, daily backups and uptime monitoring are included — not invoiced as $2.99/month each.
Right-sized tier
Most sites are sitting on a tier two sizes too big. Audit ⇒ downsize ⇒ save $10–$30/mo.
Local support — less wasted time
One Vancouver email reply often replaces three offshore chat sessions. Your time is the bigger cost.
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
Locally supported hosting means faster fixes when something breaks.
Why faster usually comes with cheaper
Older expensive plans tend to be older infrastructure: SATA SSDs, no CDN unless you bolt one on, PHP 7.4 still hanging around. The flat-priced Canadian plans we run on are PHP 8.x on NVMe, fronted by Cloudflare, with a real backup system. The migration almost always shows up as a Core Web Vitals improvement, not a regression.
Frequently asked questions
Is $5/month hosting actually enough for a real business site?
For a brochure or marketing site that gets up to a few thousand visits per month, yes — provided the plan includes NVMe storage, a CDN, free SSL, and daily backups. You only outgrow it when traffic spikes regularly or you start running checkout, members or heavy queries.
What does “managed” hosting include?
Daily off-site backups, free SSL renewed automatically, a CDN with WAF in front of your site, uptime monitoring, and a real human you can email when something breaks. Server-level updates and security patches are also handled for you.
Will I be locked into a long contract?
No. Metro Vancouver IT plans are month-to-month with optional yearly billing for a small discount. You can move up or down a plan anytime; we migrate you for free if you arrive from a different host.
Do you support WordPress, Drupal, Magento and custom apps?
Yes. We host WordPress (Starter/Standard/Pro plans), Adobe Commerce / Magento (tuned VPS), and custom Laravel / Node / PHP apps on managed VPS. We also offer dedicated WordPress care plans for sites that have a host already.
Want a Port Moody hosting cost review?
Send your last invoice. We’ll send back a one-page breakdown showing your fixable spend.