We host the open web from Toronto.
Founded in 2009 by two systems engineers who got tired of fighting their hosting provider. Today we run owned hardware across five datacentres for thousands of customers — most of whom found us through a friend.
Hosting, not gambling.
The hosting industry has a reputation for $1.99 introductory pricing and $89 renewal terms; for selling 8 GB of disk and reselling that same 8 GB three more times; for letting servers fail and absorbing the customer rage. We started IT Storm because we believed the basics didn't have to be a confidence game.
Our first server was a Dell PowerEdge bought used off Kijiji and racked at a colo on Front Street. It hosted seventeen WordPress sites for friends of friends. We still host the first one — fogliopasta.ca — sixteen years later.
The promise is simple: the price you sign up at is the price you renew at. We own our network, we hire our support team, and we pay our datacentres in advance so a tariff dispute doesn't take your site offline.
Three operating principles.
Own the infrastructure
We rack our own servers in datacentres we've audited. No reselling someone else's commodity VPS at a markup.
Human support, in your timezone
Tickets answered by someone who can SSH into your server. No tier-1 to escape.
Price honesty
Renewal at the rate you signed up at. Promos auto-disable at a budget cap. We'd rather lose you than trap you.