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Ask HN: Best hosted alternative to Google Workspace for email?

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Re: Ask HN: Best hosted alternative to Google Workspace for email?

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As alternative I would suggest Office365, but If you used Google workspace for so long, why not just pay Google? Why you have to change. Just pay and do nothing... They invested billions for you to use it for free so long. Its a good service.

Does paying them make you safe from their algorithms blocking your access at any point with no appeal? If yes it's probably the right answer, if no go with a company that is not primarily dealing with free users and has real customer service.

Re: Ask HN: Best hosted alternative to Google Workspace for email?

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https://mxroute.com/

Wow, looks pretty good. Never heard of those guys. Are they new?

Domain Name: MXROUTE.COM

Creation Date: 2013-10-14T22:37:59Z

In 2019, MXroute became an official legal entity in the state of Texas, MXroute LLC. MXroute remains a family business managed by Jarland and Christine Donnell.

Re: Ask HN: Best hosted alternative to Google Workspace for email?

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HN is a hard place for people who like Microsoft but I'll tell you that a single user Office 365 Business Essentials subscription is a great deal. Along with e-mail you get a terabyte of Sharepoint (OneDrive) storage, online versions of office apps, and Teams. $5/mo. There's an IMAP migration tool. Just turn on IMAP on your Gmail account if it's not already enabled and let the O365/Exchange wizard suck all the e-mail…

I’ve been considering this, but how good is the spam filtering included with this plan? Do people often end up bolting on 3rd-party spam filters in front of Business Essentials?

Re: Ask HN: Best hosted alternative to Google Workspace for email?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> How do you replace those? These days? Pretty easily! Fastmail also has an email client, and a calendar. The calendar is integrated into its email service too. And the calendar integrates really well with iCal / CalDAV. I find fastmail syncs calendar entries between my apple devices more reliably than apple's own icloud. The big hole in fastmail's offering is that they have no replacement for google docs & spreadshe…

One thing I like about Fastmail is the ability to serve static web content directly from the “Files” section of their apps/website. Since they already manage the domain for email, spinning up static sites at subdomains is really easy and really nice.

I'm a new fastmail customer. Fastmail doesn't control my domain how does this feature work?
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