Weebly still works. I would not start a new site on it.

Ron at Cloverleaf Lanes called me on a Tuesday night. The men's league standings had not updated since Thursday, and forty guys with beer league opinions were asking him why. The site was fine. The guy who uploads the standings had typed the wrong week number. That was the whole emergency.

That site has run on Weebly since 2017. I did not build it. A nephew of the previous owner built it, then left town, and somehow it became my problem in 2021. I have logged in maybe forty times since. It has never gone down. Nobody has ever told Ron the site looks old, which surprises me, because it does.

So here's the thing. Weebly still works, and Square, the company that owns it, has basically stopped touching it. That is fine for Ron. It is a bad sign if you are picking a builder for a new site in 2026.

What I pay and what you would pay

I pay for the account myself. Ron reimburses me monthly for upkeep, but the plan comes off my card, my login, my problem. It is the Professional plan at $15 a month billed yearly, or $20 month to month. The full ladder, straight off their own pricing page:

1. Free, $0. Your site lives on a weebly.com address and carries their branding. Good for a test drive, nothing more.
2. Personal, $13 a month on the annual plan, $16 monthly. You can connect your own domain. That is the cheapest tier I would run a real business on.
3. Professional, $15 a month annual, $20 monthly. That is Ron's plan. It strips the Weebly footer ad and lets you customize more.
4. Performance, $32 a month. That is the ecommerce tier, for people selling actual inventory off the site.

A domain runs about twenty bucks a year on top. So a real business site on Weebly costs me $180 a year plus the domain, call it $200 all in. That is the cheapest live website bill of anything I manage, and I manage eleven.

Why I stopped starting new ones

Three reasons, none of them dramatic.

The templates are old. The last real design refresh was years ago, and the app store is full of half maintained add-ons that look like 2016 built them. The 2026 reviews I trust say the same thing. Easy to use, cheap, but the templates and the support have not kept up with the rest of the market.

Support got thin. When Ron's contact form ate messages for a week in March, I waited on chat a long time and got an answer that was technically true and completely useless. I fixed it myself. Longtime users online complain about the same thing, and about price hikes. One Reddit thread from paying customers works out to $72 a month on an annual renewal of the top plan. Mine came in clean at $180. Plenty of people are getting surprised, so read your renewal notice.

And Square is steering everyone toward Square Online, their newer builder. They bought Weebly in 2018. Since then the updates have been maintenance, not love. I don't know what their endgame is. Nobody outside Square does. I just know which way the wind smells.

The furnace in the basement

A Weebly site is like the 1988 furnace in my old rental. It ran every winter for thirty years, reliable as a hammer. But nobody made parts for it anymore, and the guy who serviced it had retired. When it finally quit, you were not repairing it, you were replacing it.

Ron asked me straight out at the lanes last month. "You're telling me the internet company just quit on it?" Pretty much. So I keep a copy of his standings pages, his text, and his photos in a folder on my own drive. If Weebly ever shuts the door, his rebuild is a weekend, not a month. That folder has cost me nothing and it is the most valuable part of the whole arrangement.

Look, I'm not saying run away from Weebly if you are already on it. I'm saying don't start there. The money you save over a modern builder is maybe sixty dollars a year, and you are buying a platform with one foot out the door.

What to do Monday

If your site is on Weebly, open your account tonight and find your renewal date and price. Then start a backup folder of your own, off the platform, with your text and photos in it. One hour, zero dollars, and you are no longer betting your league schedule on somebody else's abandoned building. If your site is on something else, you get the same hour off. Just go find out what you are standing on.