911Webs alternative
911Webs is closing. Your department's website does not have to go dark.
If 911Webs has told your fire, EMS or police department that it is ceasing operations, you need a new home for the website before the old one goes offline: the calendar, the public files, the forms, the apparatus photos, and the domain residents already know. Mainfolk is built for departments like yours. We move your site over for you, free, you keep your domain, and it is $149 a month with no contract and no RFP.
No card, no account, no RFP. A PO and a W-9 on request.
- Free migration from 911Webs
- Keep your domain
- Live in days, not months
- WCAG 2.1 AA included, not an add-on
First, the fair part.
911Webs built straightforward websites for fire, EMS and police departments for a long time: a home page, a community calendar, a public files page, public forms, a staff area and an about page, at a price a small department could carry. If it served your department well, nothing about that choice was wrong. What has changed is that the company is closing, and a website that goes offline takes the department's public record with it: the meeting notices, the burn permit form, the recruitment page, the number residents look up at 2 a.m.
One more thing worth knowing before you choose the next host. The 911Webs sites we have looked at are built on HTML framesets, a layout from the early web. Phones, screen readers and search engines all handle framesets poorly, which is why a department on one tends to see little traffic from Google and nothing at all from AI assistants. Moving is a chance to fix that, not just a chance to find a new server.
What carries over
Everything you had on 911Webs, and what it becomes on Mainfolk.
Departments ask the same question first: will we lose anything? Here is the honest map, including the one thing we do not do.
| On 911Webs | On Mainfolk Civic | What that means for the department |
|---|---|---|
| Home page with news and notices | Home page with news, plus a one-click emergency alert banner | Burn bans, road closures and boil orders go above every page, switched on from a phone. |
| Event / community calendar | Events | Trainings, board meetings, open houses and fundraisers, with the next few shown on the home page automatically. |
| Public files | Documents library | Agendas, minutes, budgets, ordinances, annual reports and SOGs, grouped by year or category and searchable. |
| Public forms | Online forms | Burn permit requests, records requests, join inquiries and event requests land in a staff inbox instead of a PDF someone has to print. |
| Staff area / members login | Not a login area today | We link your existing scheduling, training or shared-document tool from the navigation. We say so plainly rather than promise a feature we do not have. |
| About Us | About, officers and staff, apparatus gallery, history, recruitment | Photos of the rigs, the station and the crew, with the alt text written for you. |
| Layout | Responsive, phone-first, WCAG 2.1 AA | Framesets do not reflow on a phone or read cleanly in a screen reader. Every Mainfolk page does both, and we publish the audit. |
| Hosting and support | Hosting, SSL, backups, updates and support, included | Month to month, export anytime, unlimited staff editors. The site is yours, not ours. |
911Webs and other product names are trademarks of their respective owners. Mainfolk is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by 911Webs. What we know of the closure comes from what 911Webs has told its customers; confirm your own shutoff date with them directly.
Before the lights go out
Six things to do before your 911Webs site goes offline.
Do these this week, whether you choose Mainfolk or anyone else. Once the old server is switched off there is nothing left to recover, and the domain is the one thing that cannot be rebuilt from memory.
Send us what you saved and we do the rest.
- Find out who owns your domain. Log in to the registrar and confirm the department, not the vendor, is the registrant. If 911Webs registered it for you, ask them now for a transfer or the unlock and authorization code.
- Download every public file and form. Open the Public Files and Public Forms pages and save each PDF to a folder the department controls: minutes, SOGs, applications, permit forms.
- Save the calendar. Copy upcoming events into a document: trainings, meetings, inspections, fundraisers.
- Capture the words and the photos. Screenshot or copy the About Us, staff and apparatus pages. Get the original photos from whoever took them if you can.
- Check where your email lives. If department addresses run on the same domain, write down the mail records before anything changes at the registrar so they carry over untouched.
- Point the domain before the shutoff, not after. Pick the new host, build alongside the old site, then change the web records while 911Webs is still up so residents never see a dead page.
See it, don't take our word for it
What a department website looks like on Mainfolk.
Three demonstration sites of the kind small teams run with no web department: a fire protection district, a village, and a nonprofit. Open one on your phone, tab through it, run it through a screen reader. That is what a chief, a secretary and a volunteer can maintain themselves.
ADA Title II
Compliance you can point to, not just claim.
Framesets make screen-reader navigation hard, and the ADA Title II deadline for small governments and special districts is on the calendar. On Mainfolk, WCAG 2.1 AA is engineered into the markup on every page at every tier, and we publish an axe-core audit rather than asking you to take our word for it. See the audit and how we build it.
Governments serving 50,000 or more residents are required to meet WCAG 2.1 AA.
Under 50,000 residents, plus special districts. Fire protection districts and fire and EMS departments of small towns are on the calendar too.
The deadlines were extended in April 2026, and DOJ has been clear the requirement is not going away. A forced move is the right moment to build to the standard. We engineer to the standard, and your counsel advises on your entity's specific obligations.
Switching
We move it for you, and you see it live before you pay.
Send us your current address and the files you saved. We rebuild the site on Mainfolk, keep the page names residents know, set up redirects from the old page addresses, and you approve it on a real address before any money changes hands.
- We move the content. Calendar, public files, public forms, about and staff pages and photos come across as part of onboarding, free.
- Your domain stays yours. We change the web records with you and leave everything else alone.
- Old links keep working. Redirects from the old page addresses, so a bookmark or a link in a county notice still lands somewhere useful.
- You approve it live first. The real site, on a real address, reviewed by the chief and the board before a dollar is spent.
- Unlimited staff editors. The chief, the secretary and the PIO each get their own login instead of sharing one.
- No exit penalty, ever. Month to month. Export your whole site anytime, free, and take it wherever you like.
The honest price
$149 a month, or $1,490 a year on a purchase order.
No call to find out the number, and no escalator once you know it.
All in: hosting, the security certificate, backups, worldwide fast delivery, updates, unlimited staff editors, the emergency alert banner, an auto-published accessibility statement, free migration from 911Webs, and search and AI-assistant optimization. Pay annually and it is $1,490 a year, two months free. Under every state's competitive-bid threshold, so your board or trustees approve it on the consent agenda instead of running an RFP.
★ Need a PO, a W-9, or a written quote for a board vote? Ask, and you will have one. No card, no account.Comparing other civic vendors too? See CivicPlus, Revize, Granicus, Town Web, or a WordPress build.
Questions
Asked and answered.
The questions chiefs, clerks and board members ask first when a vendor closes. If yours is not here, ask the engineer and you will get a straight answer the same day.
Is 911Webs shutting down?
911Webs has told its customers that it is ceasing operations. Mainfolk is not affiliated with 911Webs and does not know every department's shutoff date, so confirm yours with 911Webs directly, then plan to be live on a new host before that date so the department's website never goes dark.
What is the best 911Webs alternative for a fire department?
One that moves your content for you, keeps your own domain, meets WCAG 2.1 AA, and that your own officers can update from a phone without filing a vendor ticket. Mainfolk Civic is built for fire, EMS and police departments: an emergency alert banner, events, a documents library, online forms, recruitment and apparatus pages, free migration, $149 a month or $1,490 a year, no contract.
Can we keep our department's domain?
Yes, as long as the department controls the registrar account. We walk you through pointing the web records at Mainfolk and nothing else changes. If 911Webs registered the domain for you, ask them now for a transfer or the unlock and authorization code before they close.
How fast can we be live after 911Webs?
Most department sites are drafted the day we receive your current address and saved files and are ready for review within about a week. If 911Webs has given you a shutoff date, tell us and we work to it, and we change the domain over while the old site is still up so there is no gap.
Who moves our content over from 911Webs?
We do, as part of Civic onboarding, free. Your calendar, public files, public forms, about and staff pages and photos come across, and you approve the rebuilt site live on a real address before you pay.
Do we lose the staff or members area?
Mainfolk does not include a password-protected members area today, and we say so rather than promise it. Most departments link their scheduling, training or shared-document tool from the site navigation instead, and we set that link up for you.
Do we need an RFP at this price?
Almost certainly not. At $1,490 to $1,788 a year, Mainfolk Civic sits under every state's competitive-bid threshold, so most boards and trustees approve it on the consent agenda instead of running a formal procurement. Confirm your own entity's threshold and purchasing policy with your attorney or clerk.
What happens if we leave Mainfolk?
You export your entire site and content whenever you want, free, and take it wherever you like. There is no exit penalty and nothing held hostage.
For fire, EMS & police departments
Do not let the department's website go dark.
Send us your current address today. You will see the rebuilt site live before you pay anything, with a written quote for your next meeting.