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I recently build a website for a medical practice using Astro.

I was amazed by how easy it was compared to my experience with Wordpress for this several years ago.

And I can host it for free on something like Netlify and I don’t need to worry about the site being hacked, like with WP.

I even built a very simple git-based CMS so that the client can update the content themselves.

Web dev has really come a long way, despite what a lot of people say.

Were you commissioned by a friend? How does one find a gig building a medical practice website?

I’m a doctor myself and thus have contacts to people having medical practices :)

But at least in Germany there are some agencies doing nothing else.

Be careful with Netlify. Their bandwidth charges are even more egregious than Vercel’s.

> Be careful with Netlify. Their bandwidth charges are even more egregious than Vercel’s.

$550/TB for those who want to save a search.

Yes, good point. Although the traffic for these websites is so small, that I think I‘m good there for a long time.

Until you get DDoS'ed and they won't let you set a billing cut-off -.-