Gibbon School Management Hosting: A UK Guide

Gibbon is an open-source school management system covering student records, timetabling, attendance, and gradebooks, aimed at schools wanting a free alternative to commercial school management software.

What Gibbon offers

• Student records and attendance: Core school administration functionality.
• Timetabling and gradebooks: Manage scheduling and academic records.
• Parent and staff portals: Give appropriate access to different user groups.

What Gibbon needs from hosting

Gibbon runs on PHP with a MySQL or MariaDB database. Given it handles student data, prioritise hosting with strong security practices, free SSL, regular backups, and UK-based servers for GDPR considerations specific to children’s data. See our broader guide to web hosting for schools for guidance that applies regardless of which management system you use.

FAQs about hosting Gibbon

Is Gibbon suitable for a small school?

Yes, it scales from small to larger schools, and standard shared hosting with adequate security practices is sufficient for most school sizes.

Getting started

Switchweb provides UK-based hosting with current PHP versions, free SSL, and daily backups. View our web hosting plans to get started.