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Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying

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Re: Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying

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Post by jahlove »

Apreche wrote: post #139

I knew something like this would probably come, but it doesn't make it any better. Complete BS. 16 years ago me and my friends signed up for "GMail for your domain". That's it. We wanted to use GMail, which was by far the best email available at the time, and have email addresses at our own domain instead of @gmail.com. That's it. Since that time several of us have been using our GFYD/GSuite/Workspaces accounts as ou…

> And now we're being forced to pay for something that everyone else gets for free.

> Just looks like most of our accounts are going to get deleted or are going to have to pay $6/month for nothing.

Am I wrong or are you paying that $6/mo for having the gmail UI in front of your custom domain? Doesn't really seem like nothing.

Re: Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying

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Post by Sunspark »

throwawayboise wrote: post #136
Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #90

I have a hard time remembering the last time something positive came from G. - a former Internet darling company that could do no wrong.

Their maps and turn-by-turn navigation are still the best.

Check out HERE maps. Solid.

Re: Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying

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Post by area51org »

Sunspark wrote: post #155

I am affected by this. I am sorry to hear that Google is running low on cash to pay for the bandwidth consumed by my two-user email/calendar suite.

Yup. The multi-billion-dollar company is low on cash and just has to do this.

I hope they succeed in completely ruining any goodwill they have left. I'd toss out some four-letter words, to boot, but I just can't be bothered.

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Post by q1w2 »

Apreche wrote: post #139

I knew something like this would probably come, but it doesn't make it any better. Complete BS. 16 years ago me and my friends signed up for "GMail for your domain". That's it. We wanted to use GMail, which was by far the best email available at the time, and have email addresses at our own domain instead of @gmail.com. That's it. Since that time several of us have been using our GFYD/GSuite/Workspaces accounts as ou…

Same here. Set this up for my family, and really the only thing I wanted was a gmail account with my own domain.

Ideally I'd like to have some self-hosted solution though - will be looking at options...

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Post by dylan604 »

Macha wrote: post #96

Well I think this is probably the push to move my email to fastmail, though for €5/month if they've got rid of the 5 user minimum I might pay for the archive/drive space/laziness.

I don't remember the details, but fastmail was recently the recipient of some HN ire recently. Might be worth your time to search to see if it changes your opinion of fastmail. Lots of users chimed in with alts in the thread there.

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Post by t0mas88 »

quesomaster9000 wrote: post #152
treesknees wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem is, I'm not a freeloader despite having my free account for almost 13 years. I was a proud owner of Nexus phones, Google Fi subscriber, Google Music (YouTube Premium) subscriber, I've purchased apps and tv content on Google Play, and I also started paying for Google Drive storage after they removed the free unlimited photo backups. I had YouTube TV for a time. Having a powerful Gsuite service was a drivin…

The long-tail isn't being considered here IMO. Dyn.com (nee DynDNS, in the dialup days) was bought out by Oracle, my nearly 20 year old lifetime VIP account will be terminated in May despite using a few thousand requests per month and in the past highly recommending their extortionately priced but rather excellent global load balancer and enterprise anycast services (to the tune of thousands of dollars per month). Li…

Ah yes, we used Dyn global load balancer 10 years ago. It was a great solution at the time. But they kept their high prices while AWS started offering more flexible solutions at 1/100th of the Dyn price.

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Post by Aloha »

jfengel wrote: post #100

Huh. I thought that was what I had, but I haven't heard this directly from them. It's the first I've heard of it. I used a microscopic subset of the features. Aside from them hosting my email, I don't think I'm any different from other users. It's just me; I'm not really a business. I notice some differences, mostly in limitations: less storage, features of my Pixel phone that sometimes don't work with that account.…

Yeah, I' in the same boat you are.

I dont know if I want to pay six bucks a year for that privilege, per account. I'm giving away emails on my domain too. Most of which are not used.

Re: Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying

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Post by grey-area »

wodenokoto wrote: post #122
herodoturtle wrote: post #91

What are some (paid) alternatives to using G-Suite for emails? Context: We're a small but relatively old SaaS company. Been happily using G Suite's free tier since day 1 - only for email. This announcement is a tad disappointing, but as other commenters have said, 10 years of a free product is pretty great. We'll likely upgrade to Google's paid tier, but out of curiosity, since we're switching to a paid service, we m…

If you’re not using the productivity suite (docs, drive, sheets and whatnot) why not go with the little guy and use Fastmail? $5/user with 30gb or 100gb per user for $9/month Their support replies faster than google :)

+1 for FastMail, been a happy user for a while.
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