Where your website host is located is important for two reasons: speed and legal compliance. Here’s why: Speed: When your readers click on your website their computer needs to connect to your hosting company's server. The further apart they are, the longer this can take. For a text-forward, light site it may not matter too much. You can run into serious latency issues with video content or video game servers. Just imagine if your visitors are located in Halifax, but your server is in Hong Kong. Legal compliance: different countries have different laws regarding privacy, obligations to turn over information to local authorities and even the kind of content that can appear on your website. For this reason, it can be nice to pick a Canada-based webhost who stores your information on Canadian servers. If you don’t, just be aware that your US-based web host might be required to disclose information to American authorities, or you could find yourself in violation of GDRP privacy rules if you’re based on a European server.