When comparing Hostman vs Google Firebase, the Slant community recommends Hostman for most people. In the question“What are the best (price and uptime) IaaS to deploy a JAMstack website / web-app?” Hostman is ranked 5th while Google Firebase is ranked 6th.
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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 Flexible Pricing
The Blaze Plan is a pay-as-you-go plan, which is, you pay for what you use, without overhead or upfront costs.
Pro Straightforward hosting
Powered by Google's Cloud Platform, Firebase allows you to deploy static web pages or web applications with a nifty Node.js-based CLI Tool.
Pro Super fast CDN
All static website content is hosted on the Fastly CDN making your website really fast.
Pro More than just hosting web applications
In the core of Firebase allows you to do testing for Android apps, Analytics, Real-time Database, and many more. It's centered mostly for progressive web applications and mobile applications with real-time connectivity to your service.
Pro Almost free if you add Cloudflare in front (no bandwidth costs) and cache effectively
The built-in CDN is great too, but if you're concerned about bandwidth costs, using it with Cloudflare is an excellent option option.
Cons
Con Has no support for 3rd party extensions
Con SQL supported readily are MySQL, MongoDB and PostgreSQL
Con Google blocks Access
Some Google services, software and cloud systems, are not available to certain countries. blocked access by google following USA Policies.
Con Linked to Google Cloud Platform
If you don't have a Google Account, you won't be able to access Google cloud services, including this one.