Do they? I feel like you're just uncomfortable with line-item pricing and prefer flat all-in-one pricing. What are the other competitors that offer actual PaaS instead of static-site hosting?
* Render.com charges $0.60 per custom domain after the first 25
* Heroku gives you "free" custom certificates once you're on a $7/mo minimum.
Yeah but "after the first 25" may cover the majority of their customers. I myself am one of them, and at this point I don't care at all what happens after I reach 25 domains.
I agree with you of course. I feel the same way about fly.io’s pricing. For nearly all use cases, certs are free. Which is why I found it so odd that GP was complaining about it.
but, my expectation as a PaaS customer in 2022 is that you shouldn't need to pay for a SSL cert
the expectation is because nobody else charges for them anymore, not even their competitors