Sheernox Technology Group
Sheernox Technology Group provides end-to-end digital infrastructure and managed technology services, including Canadian web hosting, domains, cloud and dedicated servers, web design, website care, consulting and on-site IT. Its stated mission is to make website and business technology simpler and more reliable through a single independent provider.
At a Glance
- Individuals, professionals and small businesses
- Agencies and organizations managing multiple websites
- E-commerce and online-store operators
- Developers and businesses running applications on VPS or dedicated infrastructure
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AI Tools by Sheernox Technology Group
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cedr
AI Agent Routing CLI Tool
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Latest News
Launched cedr.dev, a new Sheernox brand for AI coding-agent tools, with five products in public beta and an open-source CLI.
Released cedr CLI v0.5.0, adding self-update functionality and opt-out anonymous telemetry.
Added GitHub Deploy and PostgreSQL databases to Shared, WordPress, Business and Reseller Hosting at no extra cost.
Moved the Sheernox client portal to a new platform while retaining the same address and customer account data.
Products & Services
NVMe container-isolated hosting for personal sites, blogs, portfolios and small-business websites, with SSL, backups, SSH, staging and migration included.
Managed hosting for WordPress, blogs and WooCommerce stores, including speed-oriented tooling and staging.
Higher-concurrency isolated hosting with dedicated CPU and memory for online stores and business applications.
White-label hosting infrastructure for customers operating their own hosting brand.
Market Position
Sheernox positions itself as a founder-owned Canadian alternative to large consolidated hosting providers, combining hosting, domains, infrastructure, web design, care and local IT under one roof. Its differentiators are Canadian hosting/data residency, isolated container resources, a 99.9% SLA, direct 24/7 support and transparent pricing. In hosting it competes with providers such as GoDaddy, OVHcloud and DreamHost; cedr competes with multi-agent orchestration, code-review and agent-governance tools while emphasizing vendor neutrality and local/open-source execution.
Leadership
Founders
Karl Nyen
Founder and CEO of Sheernox; previously founded and directed all operations for Zap5 Networks, the company's original operating name. Public profile information describes him as a senior systems architect with an enterprise-infrastructure, systems-administration and cloud background.
Executive Team
Karl Nyen
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Founded Zap5 Networks in 2009 and directed its operations before the 2017 Sheernox rebrand; his public professional profile describes senior systems-architecture and enterprise infrastructure experience.
Founding Story
Sheernox began in Kelowna in 2009 as Zap5 Networks to give small businesses, agencies and professionals a hosting provider that treated their sites with care. The company says it grew from hosting into turnkey infrastructure, web design and managed services by listening to customers; it relocated its headquarters to Kamloops in 2013 and rebranded to Sheernox Technology Group in 2017 while retaining its ownership, management, infrastructure and values.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Recurring subscriptions for hosting, email, VPS, dedicated servers, domains, monitoring and website-care plans, supplemented by web-design, consulting, managed-IT and custom-build services. cedr.dev monetizes organization subscriptions priced per developer while offering a free open-source CLI; Sheernox also charges quoted or hourly fees for certain project and out-of-scope work.
Pricing Tiers
Up to 2 websites and 15 GB NVMe; annual pricing shown on the official plan page.
Up to 5 websites and 40 GB NVMe.
Up to 15 websites, 80 GB NVMe and 2x CPU/memory allocation.
Up to 30 websites, 150 GB NVMe and 3x CPU/memory allocation.
CLI access, 30 days of route activity and route downloads.
One-developer minimum; saved routes, one year of activity and 25 API keys.
Three-developer minimum; shared routes, Council merge gates and usage alerts.
Ten-developer minimum; Team features plus SAML SSO, audit export and three years of history.
Target Markets
- Individuals, professionals and small businesses
- Agencies and organizations managing multiple websites
- E-commerce and online-store operators
- Developers and businesses running applications on VPS or dedicated infrastructure
- Resellers and hosting businesses
- Kamloops and Thompson-Okanagan organizations needing on-site IT
- Hosting personal websites, blogs, portfolios and small-business sites
- Running WordPress and WooCommerce stores
- Hosting agency and multi-site portfolios with reseller or business plans
- Deploying business applications, static sites, PHP/Node.js/Laravel applications and custom apps
- Running cloud workloads requiring root access or dedicated hardware
- Domain, email, backup, DNS, monitoring and website-maintenance operations