When comparing Hostman vs Google App Engine, the Slant community recommends Google App Engine for most people. In the question“What are the best hosting providers for a Python web application?” Google App Engine is ranked 6th while Hostman is ranked 7th. The most important reason people chose Google App Engine is:
Google App Engine integrates with Google's CDN out of the box and it distributes your application's assets through that, increasing loading speed considerably.
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Pros
Pro Has a permanent storage, so no need to join additional forces with AWS or other storage services
Pro Has a built in CI/CD tool that is very easy to set up
Pro 22 languages and frameworks require no additional configuration (not even the config-files)
Pro Has CDN and is free for Front-end apps
Pro Gives a free SSL certificate to all users and websites
Pro Increases application speed considerably
Google App Engine integrates with Google's CDN out of the box and it distributes your application's assets through that, increasing loading speed considerably.
Pro Easy to use
Google App Engine is very easy to use. All you need to do is install the SDK (which in itself is easy as well, and the documentation is very heplful) and run the command needed depending on the type of project to deploy it.
For example, to deploy a golang application, you run golang deploy
inside the project folder and it will be automatically deployed.
Cons
Con Has no support for 3rd party extensions
Con SQL supported readily are MySQL, MongoDB and PostgreSQL
Con Not a core Google product faces uncertin future
Google is notorious with flipping on technology directions, this product is clearly not the focus of Google.
Con Expenses are very hard to control
The monitoring for expenses is limited at best.
Con Problematic support even in the paid grade
Con No SQL database available
Google App Engine uses Google's NoSQL cloud database. There's no option to use a SQL database with your application.