Digital world of a business starts with a website. A secured website ( HTTPS enabled ) helps significantly in improving page rank in search results. App Engine of GCP automatically apply SSL
security on custom domains without any cost ( FREE quota, which is enough for small businesses), while others charge for SSL certificate or need few additional configurations, which are not easy even for a software developer. This case becomes more interesting when domain exists in one service provider and domain requests route to a server of a different service provider. Like, domain exists in Google domain and sever exists in any other cloud provider. Using multiple service providers bring more complexity to a system and operation becomes costlier. Especially for very small businesses finding developers for such a small task is very frustrating.
I have personally helped 3-4 businesses / professionals struggling with cases directly-indirectly related to SSL configuration and deployment of a website. Long story short, use Google domain + GCP’s App Engine to run websites of your business until requests to website are very low ( 10000 requests per day and mostly read requests ). Cost of the operation will be cheaper ( almost 80% cheaper) than working with small software vendors. Visit my youtube channel after Sep 18th, 2022 I will post a video on “How to buy domain + deploy website code + route requests to server from domain”.