Your bucket is also a website.
Sync your built site to a bucket and it serves.
A stormsites.ca address, or your own domain.
Less to run.
Deploy is a sync.
Hugo, a CI job, rclone or the AWS CLI. No deploy hook to debug and no build service to wait on.
Hosting comes with the block.
The block you hold for storage serves the site. There is no hosting line on the invoice.
Your own domain.
Every site gets a stormsites.ca address. Point your own domain at it whenever you are ready.
The sites it suits.
Built by a pipelineGenerated sites from Hugo, Astro or a CI job, pushed as a sync.
Connect a client
Heavy on filesImages, video and PDFs sit in the same bucket as the pages, with no separate asset host.
Set up hosting
On your own nameDocs, project and business sites served from your domain, from Montreal.
Custom domains
Live in three steps.
3. Point your domain
Verify the domain, set one DNS record, and it serves over HTTPS.
One block size. An invoice you can forecast.
One terabyte costs $9 CAD a month on montreal-1. There is no metered plan, so nothing on the invoice can surprise you.
- Requests are open now on montreal-1
- Pay the invoice by Interac e-Transfer
- Uploads and API requests are included
- Static site hosting comes with the block, with Storm Sites
1 TB of capacity. Add more in 1 TB blocks.
- ✓ Stack blocks as you grow
- ✓ Buckets and keys are not billed units
- ✓ Custom domains + static hosting
- ✓ Audit logs
The alpha endpoint is separate from montreal-1, and its capacity is a grant that is never billed. One account can hold an alpha grant there and paid blocks on montreal-1.
A block is capacity for your own data, applications, and sites. The Acceptable Use Policy sets the boundary, and abuse reports are acknowledged within 48 hours.
Questions people ask.
How is this different from GitHub Pages?
GitHub Pages serves a site from a git repo. Storm serves it from a bucket, so your build output, images, video and PDFs live in one place under one set of keys.
What can I deploy with?
Anything that speaks S3: rclone, the AWS CLI, Cyberduck or your CI job. Sync the built site to the bucket and it serves.
Can it run my app?
No. A bucket serves static files: pages, scripts, images. There are no server functions and no database behind it.
Where is my site hosted?
In Montreal, run by Storm, a Canadian company with no US parent. Your files stay under Law 25 and PIPEDA.
How do I move my site somewhere else?
Copy the files down with rclone or the AWS CLI and upload them anywhere. Your domain follows over DNS.
What does hosting cost?
Nothing extra. The site is served from a storage block you already hold, at $9 CAD a terabyte a month.