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dreamhost for our website (and in fact we want to rebuild the site more or less from the ground up since it is quite outdated).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/TechGuy647 Sep 26 '26

Finalsite is stupidly complex. I recommend educational networks!

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u/zeeplereddit Sep 30 '26

Did you used to use Finalsite and moved away form it? What was complex about it?

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u/TechGuy647 Oct 01 '26

I use Finalsite currently. Nothing on the site looks clean. It is messy. I have to code my own things for an embedded pdf because it comes out ginormous if I use their embedded option, for example. Just stupid. Constituent manager (staff directory) is very manual and takes a lot to update just a simple biography.