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Clickbait headline for a zoho ad. It's not clear at all how much penetration they have in Africa. It's likely unmeasurable vs Google.
I had Zoho set up on the lowest tier for a side-hustle project years ago. It did it's job smoothly and without much intrusion. Then the project ended and I forgot about the Zoho account, changed phone numbers, lost the 2fa keys - all of it. Totally my fault. Their support quickly and competently handheld me through the shutdown process. I can't imagine the nightmare Google would've forced me through to shut down a po…
I made a similar mistake with AWS where I have $0.50 monthly charge. I called and they want me to go through a lengthy processes including getting documents notarized to handle it. So instead, I just canceled the card and am patiently waiting for them to shut down the account from failed charges. It’s been about a year now though and it’s still going.
I've been using them for a small charity, and they've been really great. Super powerful/flexible including setting up complex sets of groups and multiple domains that forward to specific places.
There was a card snafu last year and our bill didn't get paid, and Zoho degraded nicely into the "free" tier without hassling us or threatening us. Once I discovered it, it was simple to upgrade again.
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> it isn't a Bay Area company They started off in Pleasanton and still have a massive presence there. Zoho ads are very common on Bart as well.
> They started off in Pleasanton That's not correct. "In the 1990s, in a small apartment located in the suburbs of Chennai in southern India" https://www.zoho.com/ourstory.html#:~:text=In%20the%201990s,...
Tbh the fact that it's a one stop shop really helps. Everything covered by their suite. I also thought it would be junk but it's not. It's pretty good!
I had Zoho set up on the lowest tier for a side-hustle project years ago. It did it's job smoothly and without much intrusion. Then the project ended and I forgot about the Zoho account, changed phone numbers, lost the 2fa keys - all of it. Totally my fault. Their support quickly and competently handheld me through the shutdown process. I can't imagine the nightmare Google would've forced me through to shut down a po…
I made a similar mistake with AWS where I have $0.50 monthly charge. I called and they want me to go through a lengthy processes including getting documents notarized to handle it. So instead, I just canceled the card and am patiently waiting for them to shut down the account from failed charges. It’s been about a year now though and it’s still going.
It would be great to see Zoho adopt privacy friendly features like end to end encryption or hosting in countries with privacy friendly laws. I would love to ditch Google too.
What may really blow their mind is that there are open source tools that cost even less. Zoho is a good choice though, their CRM was not the best but got the job done. Has a good API. Haven’t tried their other tools like docs or mail.
What are some of the open source/low cost email options that don’t have to deal with the headache of email deliverability, black list management etc.
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I made a similar mistake with AWS where I have $0.50 monthly charge. I called and they want me to go through a lengthy processes including getting documents notarized to handle it. So instead, I just canceled the card and am patiently waiting for them to shut down the account from failed charges. It’s been about a year now though and it’s still going.
I don’t know for AWS but I did that once as a teenager with another cloud provider and they sent a debt collector to my family home to collect a few euros. The debt collector had a nice fee.