Internet costs vary widely based on what you're buying. For residential service in Canada, expect $50–$70/month for basic plans (25–100 Mbps), $70–$90 for mid-tier (300–500 Mbps), and $100–$120+ for gigabit fibre from Rogers, Bell, or Cogeco. Rural areas often pay more for slower DSL or fixed wireless. Business internet costs more because you're paying for uptime guarantees, static IPs, and symmetric upload speeds. A 100 Mbps business fibre line runs $80–$150/month in Ottawa or Toronto, while 1 Gbps dedicated can hit $200–$400/month depending on the provider and SLA. If you're hosting infrastructure yourself, colocation starts around $200/month for a quarter rack plus bandwidth charges. For most web businesses, internet cost isn't the line item that matters. Cloud hosting (AWS, DigitalOcean, Cloudflare) bundles bandwidth into server costs, so you're paying $5–$50/month for a VPS that includes reasonable traffic allowances. Overages can spike costs if you get hit with a traffic surge or DDoS, which is why we run Cloudflare in front of high-traffic client sites. The hidden costs are data transfer and redundancy. If you're running a CDN-heavy site or serving video, bandwidth can become the dominant cost—sometimes $0.08–$0.12/GB for overages. We avoid that by optimizing images, lazy-loading assets, and caching aggressively. For mission-critical sites, you also want failover connectivity, which means doubling your internet spend for a second ISP on a different physical route. At Ottawa SEO, our 500+ domain portfolio runs on cloud infrastructure with pooled bandwidth, so we're not paying per-site internet costs. The total bill scales with traffic, but aggressive caching and edge delivery keep it predictable. For clients asking about internet costs, we usually steer them toward managed hosting where bandwidth is included and they're not dealing with ISP contracts or hardware failures.