SiteFreeCanadian Alternative to Wix or Squarespace? What Is Canadian
If you are looking for a Canadian alternative to Wix or Squarespace: SiteFree is not a Canadian website platform or host. It is a Montreal business that moves your existing site off Wix, Squarespace, Webflow or WordPress and charges once, in Canadian dollars, with no monthly hosting fee. The moved site is served from Cloudflare's worldwide network, from a Cloudflare account that belongs to you, so it is not a Canada-only site. Cloudflare is a company that runs a worldwide network of servers. This post does not rank other Canadian website builders. It covers what is Canadian about a SiteFree move and what to settle before you leave.
What is Canadian and what is not
| Canadian | Not Canadian | |
|---|---|---|
| Who does the move | A Montreal business | |
| What you pay | One price in CAD | |
| Where the site is served from | Cloudflare's global network, from the data centre nearest each visitor |
If you need your site to be served only from Canada, check this before you decide. Cloudflare's own pages say it is routed to "locations closest to your users", and it lists the controls for limiting traffic to Canadian data centres as an Enterprise add-on called Regional Services (as of November 2026). Some owners need this, for example because of a contract or a privacy policy. If that is you, SiteFree is not the fit.
Questions to settle before you leave
The price
A Wix plan page loaded from Montreal on 2026-11-10 showed standard prices in CAD: Light 21, Core 33, Business 44 and Business Elite 165 per month (a first-term sale was halving Core, Business and Business Elite that week), for yearly plans paid in full and before taxes. Squarespace's pricing page showed Basic at CA$21 a month on annual billing and CA$30 on monthly billing on 2026-11-09. The page carried a 50% off badge on each plan and does not say whether CA$21 already includes it. Wix says a plan bought on sale renews at the standard rate, and Squarespace says a discount applies to the first payment only. Check your own account page for what you pay today.
A move to hosting in your own Cloudflare account has no monthly hosting fee. For the long version, read a website with no monthly fees, why your Wix bill is so high or what to do about the Squarespace price increase.
Losing the site or starting over
A common worry is that leaving means losing the site or rebuilding it from nothing. Your old site stays live until you approve the new one, so nothing goes dark while the move is in progress. A move is a rebuild of your pages on new hosting, made to match the design closely. It is not an exact copy, so you get a private preview to check it before anything changes. If it is not right, you get up to two rounds of fixes, and a full refund any time before you approve.
Can I still edit the site afterwards?
On a site builder, you edit in the builder and publish. On Wix, saving does not make a change live; publishing does, there is a Preview button, and Site History lets you restore an earlier version. Squarespace has a preview and page drafts on certain plans.
A SiteFree site works the way a professional developer sets one up.
| On your SiteFree site | |
|---|---|
| You ask for a change | In plain words, to an AI assistant, for example "change the opening hours" |
| Where the change is made | On a copy, never on the live site |
| What you see first | A private preview link that only people with the link can open |
| When it goes live | Only after you look at the preview and say yes, and the live site updates a few minutes later |
| If you change your mind | Every change is kept, so you ask the assistant to undo it |
You get this without learning or running any of it. The assistant does the technical steps, and you never type a Git command.
It has a cost, and here it is. The assistant is a plan you subscribe to separately from SiteFree, such as Claude Pro at US$20 a month, and you can stop it between edits. You also need a free GitHub account, because your site's files live there. Hosting stays free. A web developer can edit the same site if you prefer.
The domain
You keep your domain. A domain is your web address, such as yourbusiness.com, and you do not have to move it. For a domain registered at Wix, Wix says you can use another company's nameservers (the settings that tell the internet where your site lives) and keep the domain registered at Wix. Once you approve the move, we tell you the one change to make where you bought your domain. The guide to transferring a Wix domain to Cloudflare covers the full option.
Google rankings and old links
Every old address is redirected to its new page, so search results, bookmarks and links from other sites keep working. A redirect is an instruction that sends a visitor from an old address to the new one. Nobody can promise rankings, and this guide does not.
If you are leaving Wix
Wix says a Wix site has to be hosted and run on Wix's servers, and that exporting blog posts to other platforms is not currently possible. Start with can you export a Wix website, then how to move your website off Wix.
If you are leaving Squarespace
Squarespace's export is a single .xml file in WordPress format. It covers layout pages and one blog, and does not include several page types, style settings or custom CSS. See how to stop paying Squarespace and keep your domain and how to move a Squarespace site to Cloudflare.
If you are leaving Webflow
Webflow's code export needs a paid Workspace plan, and CMS content, user accounts and ecommerce content are not part of it. Cancelling a paid Site plan also unpublishes the site at the end of the billing period, so time the cancellation after the new site is live. Webflow moves are in beta at SiteFree. Read what you get when you export a Webflow site and how to move a Webflow site to free hosting.
If you are leaving WordPress
It matters whether you are on WordPress.com or self-hosted. WordPress.com's export holds posts, pages and comments, but not the media library or the theme design. A WordPress move takes three to four business days to reach the preview. See how to move a WordPress site to free hosting and what moves to a static site and what does not.
The done-for-you option
SiteFree sells this move, so weigh the next paragraph with that in mind. It is a Canadian (Montreal) migration service with prices in CAD. We rebuild your site to match your design closely, host it free in your own Cloudflare account, keep the files in your own GitHub account, and charge once. The contact form needs your own free Resend account to send to your inbox; its free plan allows 100 emails a day.
- Small: up to 5 pages plus one blog or other section. $99 CAD for the first 20 sites, then $360.
- Large: up to 100 pages, any number of sections. $199 CAD for the first 20 sites, then $720.
- Bigger (a shop, a member area, or over 100 pages): a fixed quote.
You get a private preview within two business days of payment (three to four for WordPress), up to two rounds of fixes, and a full refund any time before you approve. Your old site stays live until then. You can see your page count and price in about 10 seconds by using the free check your site tool, with no email needed.
Questions and answers
- Is SiteFree a Canadian website builder or host?
- No. SiteFree is a Montreal business that moves your existing site off Wix, Squarespace, Webflow or WordPress, with prices in Canadian dollars. The moved site is served from Cloudflare's global network, from your own Cloudflare account.
- Will my site be hosted in Canada?
- No. SiteFree does not offer Canada-only hosting. As of November 2026, Cloudflare serves static files from the locations closest to each visitor, and its Canada-only controls are part of an Enterprise add-on.
- What is Canadian about the move?
- A Montreal business does the work, you pay once in CAD, and there is no monthly hosting fee.
- What does it cost to edit the site after the move?
- Hosting stays free. To change things by asking an AI assistant, you need a plan you subscribe to separately, such as Claude Pro at US$20 a month, which you can stop between edits. Any web developer can also edit the site.