I need some advice for a non-coder friend of mine who runs a non-profit and needs a long-term solution to maintaining a website for his NGO. Below are some criteria. 1. Needs CMS with admin panel 2. Cost of maintaining the website including everything should be under say INR 10,000 per year 3. Needs to be able to accept donations via the website (currently uses RazorPay) 4. Good to have a blog built-in His current website was an average job done in PHP and he's been having troubles as someone hacked into his DB. Sometimes a few pages stop working and are back up sometime later. I have been considering recommending either WordPress, Wix, or Publii, in that order. My main concern with WordPress is maintenance and upkeep especially with the use of plugins and support for future versions of WordPress. I personally lean more towards having a static website, but for a non-coder, a CMS seems necessary, should I just go ahead and recommend WordPress or explore static CMS options like Publii. Thanks in advance 🙏🏽

A static website with a headless CMS such as prismic can be a good solution. For accepting donations, a serverless function (hosted on say vercel) should work.

@curved-minister-23111 have you considered WordPress.com ? They have a premium plan at 280 bucks / month which has all the features you mentioned including payments and Automattic takes the hassle of maintaining it. Payments though can be simplified by using something like RazorPay - you can simply create various payment pages or even one page with multiple options. Don't need integration also (or just have a Payment button) which does a popup.

My take Wix/Squarespace - gives you ready to build options - the site is setup in the shortest time possible. But when you want any feature which is not available handy - you endup with expensive choices to make Best suited for - basic , no frill sites Prismic etc Fast, best for performance. But You might need a techy person on standby - incase you need to setup any thing additional. Best suited for - IT company or companies who already have technical people on the payroll to take of this WordPress • Maintenance - WP has come up with a auto-update feature, which upgrades the core/plugin/theme when there is a update available. • Security - Since WP is open-source and a very active developer community, it is most secure CMS (the WP sites that get hacked are mostly running outdated software) • Plugins for each need - with such an active dev community any feature you can think off is available to plug-and-play; this is good for non-coders to setup features like donation/product pages My suggestion for WP would be to • use a active free theme so that any issues are fixes as they are detected • Get a good dev to handhold a member of this non-profit and explain how to maintain the site what needs to be checked (ensure daily backup is getting mailed, know how to communicate with the hosting staff if the site is down). this way you will have no monthly expense; and incase the site goes down you can use a small portion of the 10,000 yearly budget for bringing up the site using the daily backups. • get a good WP dev to setup the site. Setup db backups, media backups and secure the site against brute attacks. I help a few NGO maintain their site, the above is my experience. Hope it helps you out. If you want to go for cheaper option - My suggestion is WordPress.org (Free) (and not WordPress.com - paid) - this could be setup with hosting provider - Hostgator/Bluehost Example free themes https://wpastra.com/ (download from https://wordpress.org/themes/astra/) https://demo.athemes.com/themes/?theme=Sydney (download from https://wordpress.org/themes/sydney/)

Check out https://forestry.io/

Webflow is ideal use-case here. maintenance almost nil once you get it built, no dependency needed

From my experience a Jamstack(gatsby,next,hugo…) site hosted on netlify/vercel with a headless cms like forestry.io or sanity.io would essentially be free to run