If your agency builds websites with modern frameworks — Next.js, Astro, Vite, React — you've noticed something: the build time is often shorter than the deploy time. You can scaffold a client site in an afternoon, but getting it live involves configuring hosting, setting up CI/CD, provisioning databases, managing DNS, and debugging deploy errors that have nothing to do with the code you wrote.
Multiply that across 10 or 20 client projects and the DevOps overhead becomes a real cost center. Canner was built to eliminate it.
The agency deployment problem
Agencies juggle multiple clients, multiple frameworks, and often multiple hosting accounts. Each new project means a new configuration: environment variables, build settings, deploy pipelines, domain records. When a junior developer pushes a broken build to the wrong project, someone's client site goes down.
This overhead scales linearly with your client count. At five active projects, it's manageable. At twenty, you need a dedicated DevOps person — or you need a platform that handles it for you.
The drag-and-drop workflow
Your designer finished the mockups in Figma. Your developer built the site in Cursor or hand-coded it in VS Code. The client approved the staging version. Now you need it live.
Go to canner.ca. Drag the project folder onto the dropzone. Canner detects the framework, installs dependencies, builds the project, and gives you a live URL. Time elapsed: roughly 30 seconds. Send the URL to the client.
For ongoing projects, connect a GitHub repository. Every push to main triggers an automatic rebuild. Branch deploys give you preview URLs to share with clients before merging. The workflow is identical to Vercel or Netlify — the difference is where the code runs and how you're billed.
Working with headless CMS platforms
Most agency sites pull content from a headless CMS — DatoCMS, Contentful, Strapi, Sanity, Prismic. The standard integration pattern is webhook-based cache invalidation: the client edits content in the CMS, the CMS fires a webhook, and the hosting platform purges the relevant cache so the site reflects the changes.
Canner supports webhook-triggered cache invalidation. When a content editor publishes an update in DatoCMS, the webhook hits your project's purge endpoint on Canner, the relevant cached responses are cleared, and the next visitor sees fresh content. No developer involvement after initial setup.
This matters for agencies because client content updates shouldn't require a developer to press a button. The client edits, the site updates. The agency focuses on building, not maintaining.
Per-client isolation
Each project on Canner runs in its own isolated environment with its own process, its own environment variables, and — if provisioned — its own managed Postgres database. No shared infrastructure between clients. A misconfiguration in one project cannot affect another. The details of how that isolation works live on the security page.
Billing is per-project, not per-seat. Your entire team can deploy without paying per developer. This is a direct cost saving compared to Vercel's per-seat pricing model, which charges for every team member who can trigger a deploy. For a 10-person agency on Vercel Pro, that's US$200/month before you've hosted a single site. On Canner, the equivalent is the cost of your active projects, billed in Canadian dollars — see pricing for the per-tier breakdown.
For agencies serving Canadian clients
If your clients include law firms, healthcare providers, financial advisors, or government contractors — anyone in a regulated industry — you can hand them a compliance guarantee that no American hosting platform can match.
Every site on Canner is hosted entirely in Québec. The data never leaves Canadian jurisdiction. Canner is Canadian-owned and Canadian-operated, which means it's not subject to the US CLOUD Act — the law that allows American authorities to compel US-incorporated companies to produce data stored anywhere in the world, including Canada. The mechanics of that distinction are covered in detail in the CLOUD Act post.
For a law firm's website that handles client intake forms, or a clinic's site that collects patient information, this distinction matters. Your agency can offer Canadian data residency as a standard feature of every project you deliver, not as an expensive add-on.
Law 25, Québec's privacy law, carries penalties of up to CA$25 million or 4% of worldwide turnover for non-compliance. Hosting client data on infrastructure that's subject to foreign jurisdiction creates liability exposure that a privacy impact assessment must account for. Hosting on Canner closes that risk by design.