{"id":20,"date":"2026-08-06T21:34:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T21:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/hosting\/about\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T23:01:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T23:01:16","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/hosting\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"section bg-color dark include-header m-0 pt-6 pb-5\" id=\"page-header\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-lg-8\"><span class=\"before-heading text-white\">About Us<\/span><h1 class=\"text-white fw-light mb-3\">We host about 47,000 websites<\/h1><p class=\"lead text-white op-08 mb-0\">Canvas started in 2014 because the two of us were tired of hosting companies that treated support as a cost centre. Twelve years later that is still the whole strategy.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><section class=\"section m-0 py-6 bg-transparent\" id=\"story\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"row col-mb-50 align-items-center\"><div class=\"col-lg-6\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"801\" height=\"735\" class=\"rounded wp-image-40\" src=\"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/hosting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2026\/08\/3.png\" alt=\"Build your website illustration\" srcset=\"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/hosting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2026\/08\/3.png 801w, https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/hosting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2026\/08\/3-300x275.png 300w, https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/hosting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2026\/08\/3-768x705.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 801px) 100vw, 801px\" \/><\/div><div class=\"col-lg-6\"><h2 class=\"ls-0 mb-3\">What we optimise for<\/h2><p>Almost every decision here comes down to one question: does this make the platform easier to trust? That is why the SLA credits itself without a ticket, why the migration is free, why the release fee on a domain is zero, and why we publish renewal prices next to first-year prices instead of hiding them.<\/p><p>It is also why we have never run a &quot;special introductory rate&quot; that triples on renewal. It works, but it works by surprising people, and a business built on surprising people has to keep finding new ones.<\/p><ul class=\"iconlist iconlist-color ms-0\"><li>Founded in 2014, profitable since 2017<\/li><li>Nine regions, 16 Tbps of network capacity<\/li><li>About 47,000 sites and 3,583 paying customers<\/li><li>62 people, of whom 41 are engineers<\/li><li>No outside investment, no board seat to sell<\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><section class=\"section bg-contrast-100 m-0 py-6\" id=\"numbers\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"heading-block center\"><span class=\"before-heading\">By the numbers<\/span><h2>Numbers we watch<\/h2><\/div><div class=\"row col-mb-50\"><div class=\"col-lg-3 col-md-6\"><div class=\"text-center\"><div class=\"text-center\"><div class=\"counter\"><span data-from=\"0\" data-to=\"47000\" data-speed=\"2500\" data-refresh-interval=\"50\" data-comma=\"true\" data-sep=\",\" data-places=\"3\">47000<\/span><\/div><h5>Websites hosted<\/h5><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"col-lg-3 col-md-6\"><div class=\"text-center\"><div class=\"text-center\"><div class=\"counter\"><span data-from=\"0\" data-to=\"3583\" data-speed=\"2500\" data-refresh-interval=\"50\" data-comma=\"true\" data-sep=\",\" data-places=\"3\">3583<\/span><\/div><h5>Paying customers<\/h5><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"col-lg-3 col-md-6\"><div class=\"text-center\"><div class=\"text-center\"><div class=\"counter\"><span data-from=\"0\" data-to=\"9\" data-speed=\"2000\" data-refresh-interval=\"50\">9<\/span><\/div><h5>Data centre regions<\/h5><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"col-lg-3 col-md-6\"><div class=\"text-center\"><div class=\"text-center\"><div class=\"counter\"><span data-from=\"0\" data-to=\"4\" data-speed=\"2000\" data-refresh-interval=\"50\">4<\/span><\/div><h5>Median first reply, minutes<\/h5><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><section class=\"section m-0 py-6 bg-transparent\" id=\"team\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"heading-block center\"><span class=\"before-heading\">Our Team<\/span><h2>The people you will actually talk to<\/h2><\/div><div class=\"row col-mb-50\"><div class=\"col-lg-4 col-md-6\"><div class=\"card h-100 text-center\"><div class=\"card-body\"><div class=\"mb-3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"rounded-circle wp-image-76\" src=\"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/hosting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2026\/08\/1.jpg\" alt=\"Customer testimonial\" style=\"width: 96px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/hosting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2026\/08\/1.jpg 200w, https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/hosting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2026\/08\/1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/div><h4 class=\"fw-medium mb-1\">Ada Chen<\/h4><span class=\"before-heading d-block mb-3\">Chief Executive<\/span><p class=\"mb-0\">Built and sold two infrastructure companies before deciding that the interesting problem was support, not servers.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"col-lg-4 col-md-6\"><div class=\"card h-100 text-center\"><div class=\"card-body\"><div class=\"mb-3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"rounded-circle wp-image-77\" src=\"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/hosting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2026\/08\/2.jpg\" alt=\"Customer testimonial\" style=\"width: 96px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/hosting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2026\/08\/2.jpg 200w, https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/hosting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2026\/08\/2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/div><h4 class=\"fw-medium mb-1\">Tom Iversen<\/h4><span class=\"before-heading d-block mb-3\">Chief Technology Officer<\/span><p class=\"mb-0\">Spent a decade running networks for a national carrier. Believes most outages are caused by change, not by hardware.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"col-lg-4 col-md-6\"><div class=\"card h-100 text-center\"><div class=\"card-body\"><div class=\"mb-3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"rounded-circle wp-image-78\" src=\"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/hosting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2026\/08\/3.jpg\" alt=\"Customer testimonial\" style=\"width: 96px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/hosting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2026\/08\/3.jpg 200w, https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/hosting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2026\/08\/3-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/div><h4 class=\"fw-medium mb-1\">Priya Raman<\/h4><span class=\"before-heading d-block mb-3\">Head of Support<\/span><p class=\"mb-0\">Insists every engineer spends one day a month on the support queue, including the ones who write the automation.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"col-lg-4 col-md-6\"><div class=\"card h-100 text-center\"><div class=\"card-body\"><div class=\"mb-3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"rounded-circle wp-image-79\" src=\"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/hosting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2026\/08\/4.jpg\" alt=\"Customer testimonial\" style=\"width: 96px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/hosting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2026\/08\/4.jpg 200w, https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/hosting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2026\/08\/4-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/div><h4 class=\"fw-medium mb-1\">Marcus Boateng<\/h4><span class=\"before-heading d-block mb-3\">Head of Infrastructure<\/span><p class=\"mb-0\">Responsible for the nine regions and for the boring, unglamorous capacity planning that keeps them quiet.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"col-lg-4 col-md-6\"><div class=\"card h-100 text-center\"><div class=\"card-body\"><div class=\"mb-3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"rounded-circle wp-image-80\" src=\"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/hosting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2026\/08\/5.jpg\" alt=\"Customer testimonial\" style=\"width: 96px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/hosting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2026\/08\/5.jpg 200w, https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/hosting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2026\/08\/5-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/div><h4 class=\"fw-medium mb-1\">Elena Ricci<\/h4><span class=\"before-heading d-block mb-3\">Head of Compliance<\/span><p class=\"mb-0\">Turns regulatory language into things engineers can actually implement, and audits us against them twice a year.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><section class=\"section bg-color dark m-0 py-6\" id=\"get-started\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"row align-items-center col-mb-30\"><div class=\"col-md-8\"><h2 class=\"fw-bold text-white mb-2\">Come and see whether we mean it.<\/h2><p class=\"text-white op-08 mb-0\">Ten days free, one free migration, and a support queue you can test before you pay.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"col-md-4 text-md-end\"><a class=\"button text-center bg-white color button-light button-rounded button-large ms-0 wp-block-canvas-core-header-button\" href=\"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/hosting\/sign-up\/\">Create your account<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-canvas","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}