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Gandi.net updates pricing, increases rates by up to 1000%

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Re: Gandi.net updates pricing, increases rates by up to 1000%

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Post by vel0city »

I just completed my email migration away from Gandi this weekend. I figured if I had to really start paying for it, I might as well get something better than their offering or move to something cheaper. If I'm paying ~$4/mo per user, it really starts to seem worth it to spring to something that offers a lot more for similar pricing. Then there's lots of services out there which offer cheaper prices with more features. For truly just a basic mailbox I ended up migrating to Zoho. It took about an hour getting accounts set up, DNS records changed, and data migrated. Importing data through IMAP went really smoothly. I probably could have gotten by on the free tier but a few family users didn't want to use the apps and preferred the Exchange ActiveSync functionality to have a more system-native experience on platforms like Android and Windows.

So far, so good.

Re: Gandi.net updates pricing, increases rates by up to 1000%

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Post by acomjean »

Cpoll wrote: post #8

The title is a bit clickbaity. The thing most people associate Gandi with, domain name registration, is going up 25-50%. The 1000% is this: > Now, Gandi will raise the prices of the Standard mailbox plan from €0.35/month to €3.99/month per mailbox, a 1040% increase.

Its the choose the number that make things look worse. If the article stated it increased €43 Euros a year, it doesn't sound as bad. Its still a large increase, but not as jaw dropping as the % makes it seem.

Re: Gandi.net updates pricing, increases rates by up to 1000%

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Post by robertlagrant »

pierat wrote: post #19
yawnxyz wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lots of people on HN hate Cloudflare... but they're pretty good on prices, UI, and "just works"ness. Their support is also speedy.

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> They cater to nazies, white nationalists, and booters

Do they actually, or do they just have a service for anyone?

Re: Gandi.net updates pricing, increases rates by up to 1000%

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Post by pavon »

Cpoll wrote: post #8

The title is a bit clickbaity. The thing most people associate Gandi with, domain name registration, is going up 25-50%. The 1000% is this: > Now, Gandi will raise the prices of the Standard mailbox plan from €0.35/month to €3.99/month per mailbox, a 1040% increase.

Yeah, that's not an unreasonable price. Just ticking off the features (which doesn't tell the whole story) Gandi's email service provides something between fastmail's $3 and $5 plans, and similar to protonmail's $3.99 plan.

That €0.35/month plan was a steal. Most places don't even offer backup store-and-forward SMTP for that let alone full email hosting. Of course, now that they are pricing themselves the same as their competitors they will be held to the same standard, and we'll see how that holds up.

Re: Gandi.net updates pricing, increases rates by up to 1000%

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Post by rodgerd »

robertlagrant wrote: post #23
pierat wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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> They cater to nazies, white nationalists, and booters Do they actually, or do they just have a service for anyone?

Well, they fight tooth-and-nail to keep crims and fascists online, but they pre-emptively kick sex workers. What does that tell you?

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Post by nilespotter »

rodgerd wrote: post #25
robertlagrant wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> They cater to nazies, white nationalists, and booters Do they actually, or do they just have a service for anyone?

Well, they fight tooth-and-nail to keep crims and fascists online, but they pre-emptively kick sex workers. What does that tell you?

Literally why I use them.

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Post by orangepurple »

rodgerd wrote: post #25
robertlagrant wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> They cater to nazies, white nationalists, and booters Do they actually, or do they just have a service for anyone?

Well, they fight tooth-and-nail to keep crims and fascists online, but they pre-emptively kick sex workers. What does that tell you?

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Re: Gandi.net updates pricing, increases rates by up to 1000%

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Post by chunk_waffle »

I've been a Gandi customer for over a decade. I'm willing to shell out the $4/month (for now) I get it, they have to make money. But when the aliases are no longer free: I'm out.

Having a backup plan isn't a horrible idea either... might give mail-in-a-box a try.

Re: Gandi.net updates pricing, increases rates by up to 1000%

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Post by zie »

Cpoll wrote: post #8

The title is a bit clickbaity. The thing most people associate Gandi with, domain name registration, is going up 25-50%. The 1000% is this: > Now, Gandi will raise the prices of the Standard mailbox plan from €0.35/month to €3.99/month per mailbox, a 1040% increase.

25-50% for domain names is too much for me, I'm switching to pork bun as my domains come up for renewal.
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