Since 2004, Vstore.ca has been a host to free e-commerce stores for small businesses. These stores were supported by ads that Vstore placed on these e-commerce sites.

They also offered premium versions of the stores that were ad-free. They offered a free auction service for the stores they hosted, as well.

Offering a free service such as this isn’t a cost-free process; the servers and maintenance are expensive. The costs have to be covered by advertising or by upsells to a significant portion of the clients, or the service isn’t economically viable.

Sadly, Vstores.CA has concluded that in the current economic climate, they are no longer able to continue offering these stores. On April 10, 2017, they will shut down their servers and close up shop.

They encourage all their clients to migrate their businesses to other hosts prior to the closure, and they have made tools available to clients to simplify the migration process.

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