The overhead of maintaining Wordpress was a bit too much for us, and the cost of hosting was high considering how quiet the website was.
To reduce complexity I want to set them up with a static site generator and have that export to GitLab. This will reduce cost and remove the hassle around security and of constantly logging in to update plugins etc.
But one issue I can't figure out is how they will get help when I'm not around. With something hosted completely on the server they could go to upwork.com and hire someone if the website had issues. When it's all local on their computer, how can someone from Upwork help them while maintaining the integrity of their local installation?