Illustrated Vanilla Gorilla mascot wearing sunglasses that reflect the Calgary skyline, set against a cosmic starfield, captioned Calgary Alberta Est. 1995, a higher breed of hosting

SERIOUS HOSTING. EVOLVED.

Fast Canadian website and email hosting, backed by real people who’ve been doing this since 1995.

  • Canadian Servers
  • Real Human Support
  • 50‑Day Guarantee

BEAUTIFUL ON THE OUTSIDE.
SERIOUS UNDERNEATH.

Behind the colour is carefully managed hosting infrastructure built for speed, reliability and everyday business use.

LiteSpeed
SSD Storage
Daily Backups
SSL Security
cPanel
Canadian Servers
Illustrated Vanilla Gorilla mascot wearing a headset, ready to help with a support call

REAL PEOPLE.
REAL HELP.

Hosting shouldn't require a degree in hosting. If your website disappears, your email stops arriving, or DNS suddenly seems like another language — call us. You'll reach someone who understands the problem and can actually help fix it.

Same humans. Since 1995.

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  • LiteSpeed Web Server
  • SSD Storage
  • Modern PHP
  • Optimized Caching

FAST ISN'T A FEATURE.
IT'S HOW A WEBSITE SHOULD FEEL.

Your customers shouldn't wait for your website to wake up. Vanilla Gorilla uses LiteSpeed, solid-state storage, modern PHP and tuned server environments to keep things moving.

Speed builds business.

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YOUR WEBSITE. YOUR EMAIL.
ONE PLACE. ONE PERSON TO CALL.

Everything you need to show up, stand out and stay connected — hosted right here in Canada.

Website Hosting

Fast, reliable hosting for business websites.

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Business Email

Professional email on your own domain, configured properly and supported by someone you can reach.

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Customer for 15+ years

The Calgary Italian Cultural Centre has been a customer of Blue Banana/Vanilla Gorilla for over 15 years. In those years, Randy has only provided us with the BEST service.

He is responsive, he is a great listener, an outstanding web manager and most of all very trustworthy. We would highly recommend him to anyone looking for a new member of their team, he will always be a part of ours.

Adele Z., Calgary Calgary Italian Cultural Centre

Plans & Pricing

Straightforward pricing.
No surprises.

Reasonable, transparent pricing — because you're not just buying server space. You're buying a hosting company you can actually talk to.

Email‑Only

$18/mo

Billed annually

  • Email hosting only
  • 2,000 MB storage
  • 10 email accounts
  • Webmail included
  • Free setup
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Silver Back

$58/mo

Billed annually

  • Website & email
  • 4,000 MB storage
  • 35 email accounts
  • Web stats included
  • Free setup
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*Paid on a yearly basis. **$80 discount on additional website accounts.

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Don't take our word for it.

“I have had the privilege of working with Vanilla Gorilla Hosting since 2005. I find their honesty and integrity very refreshing.”

— Neil B., Allwest Refinishing

“I am very satisfied with the support and customer service they provide. Thank you Vanilla Gorilla!”

— Sean M., ICoTA Canada

“I wouldn't hesitate to recommend them. Extremely responsive, and they treat you like a person, not a ticket number.”

— Randy L., AE Security

Why Vanilla Gorilla

The hosting company people actually enjoy dealing with.

Human Support

Call and reach someone who can actually fix the problem.

Canadian & Secure

Canadian company, Canadian servers, automatic protection.

30 Years Running

Hosting businesses since 1995 — long before "the cloud" existed.

50‑Day Guarantee

Not happy? Full refund, no questions asked.

Why Vanilla Gorilla


Not a WordPress shop. Not a problem.

No page builders forced on you, no plugin bloat, no upsells to a platform you never asked for. Just hosting for the site you already have — or the simple, hand-built one you actually want.

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Questions people actually ask.

Do I need to know anything technical?+

No. That's the point. If something breaks or looks confusing, you call us and describe it in plain English — we'll take it from there.

What if my website was already built by someone else?+

That's most of our customers. We host the site your designer or agency built; you don't need to touch a line of code, and neither do we unless you ask.

Can you move my email without downtime?+

In almost every case, yes. We plan the transfer around your DNS so mail keeps arriving while the move happens in the background. One phone call gets it started.

Do you support WordPress?+

Yes, if that's what you're running — cPanel hosts it fine. We just won't push it on you if it isn't. See our Non‑WordPress Hosting page for who this is really for.

What's the 50‑day guarantee, exactly?+

If you're not happy in your first 50 days, we refund you in full — no questions asked. No fine print.

Ready for hosting you can actually call?

One phone call gets you a free, no-downtime transfer. Real people, every time.

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