A ready-made professional site built on our template library — real hosting, real security, a working sales chatbot, and monthly maintenance by a human. Your online presence, live in 48 hours. When you're ready to sell or customize, upgrade to Plus or Pro.
Up to 9 pages from our template library, populated with your business content from intake. Your chosen palette, polished typography, mobile-ready. Not a bespoke custom design — that's our paid build service. This is the fastest way to look legit online.
Dedicated resources on a real server. Not shared hosting where you compete with 500 other sites. Your site runs fast, always.
Your domain, managed for you. DNS, WHOIS privacy all included. Need us to register and manage your domain? Add $5/month and we handle everything.
Auto-renewing SSL, DDoS protection, web application firewall, bot protection, security headers. Enterprise-grade, included free.
Your site cached across 300+ cities worldwide via Cloudflare. Fast load times everywhere, not just near the server.
Automated daily backups. If anything goes wrong, we restore your site. Sleep easy knowing your work is protected.
24/7 monitoring with instant alerts. If your site goes down, we know before you do and fix it fast.
Professional email at your domain forwarded to any inbox. [email protected] without paying for email hosting.
A real person checks your site monthly. Updates, fixes, performance checks. This is what nobody else includes at this price.
Site analytics, sitemap, meta tags, Open Graph setup. Know who visits and make sure search engines find you.
An AI chat widget trained on your business basics — hours, services, contact, policies. Answers visitor questions 24/7. Scoped tight to your business so it doesn't go off-topic. Voice chat and deeper product knowledge come with Plus.
No hidden fees, no bait. Here's exactly what each tier includes, what it costs, and what you unlock when you upgrade. Same hosting, same uptime, same support across all tiers — only the site features and depth change.
Template storefront
Unlock selling
Full commerce
Want a fully custom design built from scratch with your own branding, photography, and copy? That's our Custom Build service, starting at $500 one-time. Ask us about it.
Choose a template from our library — retail, service, hospitality, creative. Pick a palette. Tell us about your business in the intake form. No DIY builder, no blank page.
We drop your intake content into the template, wire up your domain, issue SSL, arm the firewall, plug in the CDN, schedule backups, and train your Starter chatbot on your business. You're live in 48 hours.
24/7 uptime monitoring, monthly maintenance, instant fixes. When you're ready to sell or add features, one click upgrades you to Plus or Pro — no migration, no rebuild.
| Feature | GoDaddy / Bluehost | Squarespace / Wix | Canoa |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly price (real, not promo) | $12-17 | $16-33 | $33 flat |
| Website included | No — DIY | No — DIY | Yes — template, populated for you |
| Server type | Shared | Shared | Dedicated VPS |
| Domain management | Year 1 only | Year 1 only | +$5/mo we handle it |
| SSL | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Global CDN | No | Basic | 300+ cities |
| DDoS protection | No | No | Enterprise-grade |
| Web firewall (WAF) | No | No | Yes |
| Daily backups | Extra $ | No | Included |
| Uptime monitoring | No | No | 24/7 |
| Email forwarding | Extra $5-7/mo | Extra $7/mo | Included |
| Site maintenance | No | No | Monthly |
| Price jumps after year 1 | 2-3x increase | Same | Locked while active |
| Referral program | No | No | Free month when referral subscribes |
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Got a second brand, a side hustle, or a landing page for a campaign? Add another full site — same VPS, same CDN, same security, same monthly maintenance.
Elevated security tier. SIEM monitoring, intrusion detection, vulnerability scanning, malware removal, incident response. For anyone handling real customer data.
Don't want to think about DNS, WHOIS, renewals, or TLS records? We register and manage your domain entirely. Set it once, never touch it again.
Try Canoa for 30 days. If the waters aren't for you, we refund your first month in full. No forms, no hold music, no retention specialist trying to talk you out of it. Just a refund and a handshake.
No. The Starter includes a template-based website. We have a library of professionally designed templates — retail, service, hospitality, creative — and we populate one with your business content from intake. You don't open a builder, you don't stare at a blank page. You tell us about your business and we hand you a finished starter site within 48 hours.
No — be clear on that. The $33 Starter is a template site, populated with your content. Same template structure as other Starter customers, just with your business, your palette, and your content inside. If you want a fully bespoke design with custom photography, custom copy, and your own visual identity, that's our Custom Build service — one-time $500 and up. Many customers start on Starter to go live fast, then commission a Custom Build later.
Up to 9 pages on the Starter plan. Need more? Add an Extra Website upsell for +$27/mo, or upgrade to Plus or Pro for deeper feature sets.
Starter ($33/mo) is a template storefront with a text-only sales chatbot and preview-only product pages. Plus ($66/mo) unlocks live checkout, full product detail pages, voice chatbot, and visitor-switchable palettes. Pro ($99/mo) adds full e-commerce, newsletter + funnel, and deep custom agent knowledge. You can upgrade any time with one click — no migration, no rebuild.
Yes. Migration is free. Send us your current host credentials or export files and we move everything — code, content, database, email — with zero downtime. Most migrations wrap up same day. Or, if you'd rather start fresh on our templates, we'll redesign it for you instead.
Canoa is built for people who don't want to think about hosting, code, or DNS. We handle every technical layer. You email us changes — or text, or call — and they get done. That's it.
Third-party monitors track every site we host, 24/7. We publish the receipts. If we ever miss our 99.9% uptime in a given month, we credit your account — no forms, no apology email, just a credit.
Yes. No contracts, no cancellation fees, no hoops. Cancel within the first 30 days and get a full refund. Cancel later and you keep your current month — we won't charge the next one. The site files are yours; we'll hand them over.
A real human reviews your site every month: content updates, plugin and CMS updates, broken link checks, performance audit, security scan, backup verification. You get a short report in plain English — no jargon, no upsells buried in it.
Primary infrastructure runs on enterprise-grade hardware in Europe, fronted by Cloudflare's 300+ city global CDN — including every major Canadian city. Your visitors always hit the nearest edge, wherever they are.
Our monitor alerts us before you notice. We investigate immediately and push a fix or roll back to the most recent working backup. You'll usually hear from us before you realize there was a problem.
Share Canoa with someone. When they subscribe and activate a paid plan, your next month is free. Stack up to 12 months of credit on your account.
Refer someone to Canoa. When they sign up and activate a paid plan, you earn one free month of hosting. Stack up to 12 months of credit. Credits are tied to your active account and expire after 60 days of inactivity. Your friends get great hosting. You pay less. Everybody wins.
Your template site, populated. Your hosting, armored. Your maintenance, handled. Your starter chatbot, trained. Live in 48 hours. Cancel anytime. Upgrade to Plus or Pro in one click when your business is ready to sell.