Does it make sense to make a website that contains front-end only for small local businesses?

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I am thinking about doing some freelancing work.

I am pretty confident that I can do a decent one page , fully responsive site like this: http://www.n3rdfusionstudios.com/

I mean if my clients are gonna be small businesses like local barber shop or restaurant, can I just build a front-end part and ship it to them?

I am planning to give them 2 options:

  1. front-end static site.
  2. wordpress site, front-end + back-end

If hypothetically I can do a static site and ship it, where do I host it?
Can I still get a custom domain to pair with it?

(sorry if this isn’t seemed professional, just wanna test some water here)

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I am not really familiar with wordpress, so if I do my own website, I think I can make the page more prettier.

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Hey there, as far as hosting goes, their are many options. Hostgator, Namecheap and Amazon just to name a few.

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I am located in China. Most of the time people scan QR code to do this kind of stuff.
I am thinking include a QR code at the end of the page then customers can contact the barbershop owner himself.
Add him on weChat or something.

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yeah. I am not going to. I think it is way easier to let them scan the QR code and add the owner on wechat, so that they can talk about appointments and stuff.

Also, I don’t think that nowadays leaves a land line phone number is a good decision isn’t it?

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I see. That’s a solid point. I will think about it.

edit: the point I wanna make is that I am not familiar with backend stuff.
if that’s the case then I think i will make the site on wordpress.

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yeah. I know. Thanks for the heads up.
I will talk to the barber shop owner 1st.

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Yes, It is make sense as with this idea we can connect to more customer’s.

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Hostgator used to give decent hosting until they sold their business to Endurance International Group a few years ago. Once they moved all servers to Provo service has had many problems. Outages lasted for days (Not been happening so much lately) support not very good ( you will soon progress far enough that you know more than they do), altogether not a good choice for developers.
If you are using Wordpress then Siteground is an excellent choice. For most anything else, you can’t go wrong with Sectorlink.

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