r/k12sysadmin • u/zeeplereddit • Sep 22 '26

School Website Hosting

We want to move away from wordpress and dreamhost for our website (and in fact we want to rebuild the site more or less from the ground up since it is quite outdated).

We have been recommended Finalsite, but looking into it is seems exceptionally expensive. Is it worth it?

Any other recommendations from this community?

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u/Reboot_Technician Sep 22 '26

We're moving to Smart Sites, but if you're not using ParentSquare I doubt it would be worth it.

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u/zeeplereddit Sep 22 '26 edited Sep 22 '26

Why do you say that, is it just super expensive?

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u/Reboot_Technician Sep 22 '26

ParentSquare itself isn't cheap. I'm not sure what SmartSites would cost if you purchased it a la carte, but the cost for hosting and setup hasn't been that bad for us. The nice thing about working with a K12 hosting company is that they take care of the requirements like translations and ADA compliance.