We’re excited to announce the opening of our newest data center in Toronto, Canada. Linode Toronto is our 10th global data center and will allow our Canadian customers to deploy cloud workloads on Canadian soil.
Roughly one-third of Canada’s developer community calls Toronto home, making it a natural fit for our newest data center and the tens of thousands of Canadian customers who rely on us. Toronto includes availability of all Linode features and services similar to our other data centers at standard Linode pricing. Additionally, it was built using our latest server builds and is connected to our global backbone.
Linode Toronto also satisfies the in-country data compliance requirements of the Canadian Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (“PIPEDA”) and Anti-Spam Legislation (“CASL”). For more information, please consult our Compliance, Terms of Service, and Privacy documentation.
Customers with Linodes in other data centers wishing to move to Toronto can clone them to the new facility. The cloning method is recommended since you’ll be able to stage your services on a new IP address before changing your DNS records. Alternatively, you can open a Support ticket and we can configure a migration for you. For new Linodes, simply choose “Toronto” as the location when creating your cloud instance.
And in case you missed it, we recently announced Dedicated CPU plans for CPU-intensive workloads like CI/CD, video encoding, machine learning, game servers, and busy application servers. Keep an eye out for more announcements on our upcoming India and Sydney data centers, Object Storage, Linode Kubernetes, One-Click Apps and more.
Comments (25)
First off: Congratulations to you on finally stepping foot on Canadian soils!
Question for the staff: Following this announcement, will Linode start to charge Canadian sales tax to Canadians?
Thanks, and great question. Right now we don’t have plans to charge Canadian GST. If that changes, we’ll be sure to announce it.
Is there any difference in AUP between USA based Linodes and those in Canada?
Hi William: There’s no difference since our AUP is the same across all Linodes, regardless of location.
Sydney FTW
Can’t wait!
Are there any plans for other Canadian locations? Toronto isn’t especially well connected from western Canada, although slightly better than what I’ve got right now. I’m debating whether it makes sense to move anything or wait longer?
Hey Dave, thanks for your suggestion. There is nothing planned at the moment, though we’ve added your request for another location to our internal tracker.
About time !!
Thanks
Thanks Linode 🙂 Many of our Canadian clients require their hosting to be physically located in Canada. We will definitely try moving servers to Linode in Toronto.
I suggest a second data center in Canada, but in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Toronto is great 🙂 But for people located on or around the west coast of Canada, there is to much latency (too slow) with data centers located in Toronto 🙁 Because it is 2,500+ miles/4,000+ km away.
The pleasure is ours! I’ve added your suggestion for a data center in Vancouver to our internal idea tracker. If you need a hand with moving any of your current Linodes to Toronto, open up a ticket and we’ll be happy to help.
Congratulations for the new opening. It would be nice if one day you make a virtual visit through your data centers. it would be very interesting
Great! I hope the next one will be in France, Linode has a big community in Paris. We hope that the stickers and t-shirts will, one day, come to us 😉
great, welcome to canada
hope to have the Linode Cloud of hk,I leave linode long time when the JP1 can’t get it
My website physically located at Linode server in California , and users have access to the website through Cloudflare. If I move website to Toronto, will it improve/impair latency for users in Vancouver and Toronto areas?
That can depend on a number of factors. The best way to check if speeds will improve will be to use the Linode Speedtest. https://www.linode.com/docs/guides/how-to-choose-a-data-center/
Just moved from NJ to Toronto. Cloning worked flawlessly. You guys rock!
O Canada! Glad to see Linode coming closer to home. Another +1 for a Vancouver data centre, but one thing at a time.
Checking relative speed from here in Vancouver using Linode’s speedtest servers/files
Shaw 600Mb/s Cable Home connection
Fremont: Ping 33.7ms, 56MB/s
Toronto: Ping 60.4ms, 34MB/s
Telus 1000Mb/s Fibre Work connection:
Fremont: Ping 27.9ms, 69MB/s
Toronto: Ping 66.3ms, 25MB/s
Sydney! 🙂 And I thought that would never happen. Though I suppose it hasn’t, yet…
Can’t wait!!
Vreau vps
Definitely moving to Toronto.
Echo the comments above. Toronto is great, Vancouver is better.
Join Amazon, Apple, Microsoft and others in Vancouver!
Does Linode consider data in the new Toronto data center to be subject to the US Patriot Act?
Besides having their data hosted in Canada, that’s what my Canadian customers care most about.
Good question @Scott Stockton…
Linode staff, what are the chances that Toronto location gets AMD CPUs anytime soon? Also, there are some posts on your forum about Linode being a US company – and therefore US laws applying to its non-US servers. What is Linode’s stance on this?
Thanks.
Linode, you should add this to the rest of your webpages… Pretty obvious. I had to google “Linode Toronto” to see it actually existed. Also your speedtest page.