[ CANADIAN SHELL HOSTING ]
Your Shell. Your Server.
Your Rules.
CityShells.ca provides premium SSH shell accounts, IRC shells, cloud VPS, and bare-metal dedicated servers to developers, bouncers, bots, and power users across North America.
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$ cat plans/shell.txt
SSH Shell Accounts
Full bash shell access. Perfect for IRC, bots, scripts, and remote computing.
Micro Shell
- 5 GB SSD Storage
- Bash / Zsh / Fish
- 1 SSH User
- 512 MB RAM limit
- 5 Cron Jobs
- 100 MB/s transfer
- Email forwarding
- No root access
Standard Shell
- 20 GB SSD Storage
- Bash / Zsh / Fish / tmux
- 3 SSH Users
- 1 GB RAM limit
- Unlimited Cron Jobs
- 1 Gbps transfer
- Email + Aliases
- Python / Node / Ruby / Go
- Screen + tmux sessions
Power Shell
- 50 GB SSD Storage
- All shells + custom dotfiles
- 10 SSH Users
- 2 GB RAM limit
- Unlimited Cron Jobs
- 10 Gbps transfer
- Full dev toolchain
- Docker (rootless)
- Custom DNS hostname
$ cat plans/irc.txt
IRC Shell Hosting
ZNC bouncers, irssi, WeeChat — always connected, never missing a message.
IRC Lite
- 1 ZNC Bouncer
- irssi pre-configured
- 2 GB storage
- 10 networks max
- Web admin panel
- IPv4 + IPv6
IRC Pro
- 3 ZNC Bouncers
- irssi + WeeChat
- 10 GB storage
- Unlimited networks
- Custom ZNC modules
- DCC file transfer
- Dedicated IPv4
- 24/7 process uptime
IRC Unlimited
- 10 ZNC Bouncers
- All IRC clients
- 25 GB storage
- Unlimited everything
- Custom hostname
- BNC network support
- Eggdrop / TCL bots
- Dedicated IPv4 + IPv6
$ cat plans/vps.txt
Cloud VPS Servers
Full root access. KVM virtualization. Deploy in under 60 seconds.
VPS Starter
- 1 vCPU (AMD EPYC)
- 1 GB RAM
- 25 GB NVMe SSD
- 500 GB bandwidth
- 1 IPv4 + /64 IPv6
- KVM hypervisor
- Any Linux distro
- 1 Gbps port
VPS Basic
- 2 vCPU (AMD EPYC)
- 2 GB RAM
- 50 GB NVMe SSD
- 2 TB bandwidth
- 1 IPv4 + /64 IPv6
- KVM + QEMU
- Snapshots
- 1 Gbps port
VPS Pro
- 4 vCPU (AMD EPYC)
- 8 GB RAM
- 100 GB NVMe SSD
- 5 TB bandwidth
- 2 IPv4 + /48 IPv6
- KVM + custom ISO
- Weekly snapshots
- DDoS protection
- 10 Gbps port
VPS Elite
- 8 vCPU (AMD EPYC)
- 16 GB RAM
- 200 GB NVMe SSD
- 10 TB bandwidth
- 4 IPv4 + /48 IPv6
- Full KVM control
- Daily snapshots
- Advanced DDoS
- 10 Gbps port
- Priority support
$ cat plans/dedicated.txt
Dedicated Bare-Metal Servers
Full hardware control. No neighbours. Maximum performance.
Entry Dedicated
- Intel Xeon E-2236
- 6-Core / 12-Thread
- 32 GB DDR4 ECC RAM
- 2x 480 GB SSD (RAID 1)
- 20 TB bandwidth
- 1 Gbps uplink
- 5 IPv4 / /64 IPv6
- IPMI/KVM access
- RHEL / Ubuntu / Debian
Performance Dedicated
- AMD Ryzen 9 5950X
- 16-Core / 32-Thread
- 64 GB DDR4 ECC RAM
- 2x 1 TB NVMe (RAID 1)
- 40 TB bandwidth
- 10 Gbps uplink
- 10 IPv4 / /48 IPv6
- IPMI/KVM + BIOS access
- Any OS or custom ISO
- Hardware RAID controller
Enterprise Dedicated
- Dual Intel Xeon Gold 6226R
- 32-Core / 64-Thread
- 256 GB DDR4 ECC RAM
- 4x 2 TB NVMe (RAID 10)
- 100 TB bandwidth
- 10 Gbps redundant uplink
- 20 IPv4 / /48 IPv6
- Out-of-band IPMI
- Hardware RAID + hot-swap
- 24/7 dedicated support SLA
- Custom hardware available
What's Included Across All Plans
| Feature | Shell | IRC | VPS | Dedicated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SSH Access | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Root / sudo | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Custom OS | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Dedicated IPv4 | Optional | Optional | ✓ | ✓ |
| IPv6 Support | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| DDoS Protection | Basic | Basic | Advanced | Enterprise |
| SLA Uptime | 99.9% | 99.9% | 99.97% | 99.99% |
| Backups | ✗ | ✗ | Weekly | Daily |
| Control Panel | Basic | Web | Full | Full |
| 24/7 Support | Ticket | Ticket | Ticket+IRC | Dedicated |
| Canadian DC | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| BGP Routing | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
Infrastructure Built for Speed
Canadian Data Centers
Toronto (primary) · Montreal (secondary) · Vancouver (edge)
All servers located on Canadian soil. Your data never leaves Canada.
10 Gbps BGP Network
Peered with Cogent, Hurricane Electric, Bell, TELUS, and Rogers. Low-latency routing across North America and Europe.
DDoS Mitigation
Up to 1 Tbps scrubbing capacity via Prolexic and custom Flowspec rules. Automatic traffic analysis with < 10 second mitigation time.
Security First
Fail2ban, SSHGuard, CSF firewall on all nodes. 2FA enforced on all accounts. Hardware security keys (YubiKey) supported on all plans.
Pre-Installed on Every Shell
Trusted by Sysadmins & Developers
@netrunner99
IRC Power User · Toronto
"I've had my ZNC bouncer running on CityShells for 3 years without a single outage. These guys take uptime seriously."
@sysdev_ca
Backend Developer · Vancouver
"Migrated my whole dev stack to a CityShells VPS. The NVMe speed is unreal and the support team actually knows what they're talking about."
@irc_forever
Network Operator · Montreal
"Finally a hosting company that gets IRC culture. ZNC + custom eggdrop bots, everything just works out of the box."
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Documentation
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Response Time
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