I have been on a similar journey. It's been a trying endeavour but my spirits are buoyed knowing now that I am not alone.
One I found last week, FullHost, is Victoria-based with multiple datacentres in Canada and the US. I'm not sure if they support everything you're looking for.
I gave OVH a try a couple weeks ago. It's difficult to explain what the user experience is like. It's like a byzantine interpretation of what cloud computing is all about. Beyond that I tried both their VPSs and the Cloud instances. The VPSs are very well priced but there's no private network so each instance is on its own. I read (but didn't verify myself) that the firewall rules only apply to inbound connections so any other VPS can connect to any port on any other VPS (of any customer). It seemed plausible. So I got a refund on those and tried the Cloud Instances. I could get any to boot up. Just a long delay and a few minutes later an error message and a failed state.
So I've been working with DigitalOcean this past week. Literally 20 minutes ago figured out that my app's verification emails stop sending b/c they now block all SMTP ports. Incoming I can understand to prevent people running their own mail servers, but it seems to also apply to connecting to remote SMTP servers. Wild. I opened a ticket and I'm hoping I just missed something.
Anyway, that's what brought me to HN today. Overall, I'm just really surprised their aren't cloud hosting options in Canada right now. There used to be a few but at least two of them were acquired and absorbed.
One I found last week, FullHost, is Victoria-based with multiple datacentres in Canada and the US. I'm not sure if they support everything you're looking for.
https://www.fullhost.com/cloud-paas/
I gave OVH a try a couple weeks ago. It's difficult to explain what the user experience is like. It's like a byzantine interpretation of what cloud computing is all about. Beyond that I tried both their VPSs and the Cloud instances. The VPSs are very well priced but there's no private network so each instance is on its own. I read (but didn't verify myself) that the firewall rules only apply to inbound connections so any other VPS can connect to any port on any other VPS (of any customer). It seemed plausible. So I got a refund on those and tried the Cloud Instances. I could get any to boot up. Just a long delay and a few minutes later an error message and a failed state.
So I've been working with DigitalOcean this past week. Literally 20 minutes ago figured out that my app's verification emails stop sending b/c they now block all SMTP ports. Incoming I can understand to prevent people running their own mail servers, but it seems to also apply to connecting to remote SMTP servers. Wild. I opened a ticket and I'm hoping I just missed something.
https://docs.digitalocean.com/support/why-is-smtp-blocked/
Anyway, that's what brought me to HN today. Overall, I'm just really surprised their aren't cloud hosting options in Canada right now. There used to be a few but at least two of them were acquired and absorbed.