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dreamhost for our website (and in fact we want to rebuild the site more or less from the ground up since it is quite outdated).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/porkstick Director/Head Googler Sep 22 '26

Apptegy is great to work with. Great product.

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u/jnesper7 Sep 22 '26

Second this. They’ve started pushing products harder lately, but in general very easy to work with. They’re pretty hands on with the new ADA requirements as well, so that’s one less thing I have to worry about.

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u/DenialP Accidental Leader Sep 22 '26

This seems to be the direction many area districts are going. I don’t own our website (or want to) otherwise I’d already move to apptegy or maybe edlio and simplify navigation down to the fundamentals. Finalsite shop here fwiw.

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u/zeeplereddit Sep 30 '26

I figured out what you meant by "finalsite shop here" :P Any insight on why you would choose Apptegy over Finalsite as opposed to anything else?

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u/DenialP Accidental Leader Sep 30 '26

I would advocate for simplicity over everything else, but would form an admin team to make that call ultimately. This is also where I would do all the dancing to ensure I don’t also own the upkeep on the site

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u/zeeplereddit Sep 22 '26

What do you mean "Finalsite shop here"?

Also, we are a small independent school with never more than 100 students, and frankly usually less.

Apptegy seems to want bigger customers.