.au domains are more expensive than plain .com and also require ABN & paperwork usually. Full service hosting like web central can do the lot in a couple of clicks (.com) for about $30/mth. So you don't have to fuss with registrars and dns config. The SSL is automatically provided and configured for free. Webapp/packages are easily installed "one click" from cpanel. It used to be fiddly and somewhat difficult. Now it's easy, if you want it to be. The hardest part is coming up with a domain name that's not taken already
