[EnderMB]

If we're purely talking about Let's Encrypt, it's not straightforward to set up on Azure either.

It's easy to set up a standard cert through Azure, but if you want to use Let's Encrypt there's a whole dance you have to go through to get there, and for many people it's not worth the time and they'll happily pay a bit of money to make it a few-clicks thing.

[thrower123]

When I looked at doing it, I'd have to bump up my hosting plan for my vanity blog to somewhere in the neighborhood of $100/month to apply an SSL cert for my custom domain, which is just stupid for a site that gets a couple thousand visits a month and maybe earns me $5 in referral fees.

[mattferderer]

I believe it's free now - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service/configure...

Though hopefully they simplify it for cases such as yours.

Putting Cloudflare in front is also another cheap option.

[thrower123]

It looks like you have to go up to at least a B1 app service, which at $50/month doesn't make a lot of sense for me, unless I can figure how to get my MSDN credits associated with that Azure subscription instead of one of the other two accounts I don't use, but that's a whole other can of worms...