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It will cost you dozens of hours to move your 10+ years of digital stuff. The big G has done a real pinch here.
In my case it won't, because, of course, it's all backed up locally. This Google outfit can be pretty sketchy at times - needed to make sure they didn't close down and take my stuff.
I'm surprised so many of you are upset by this. I use a paid email for the custom domain (not gmail) but I feel like they're requesting a pretty reasonable fee after such a long time of free usage.
You're right the fee is not unreasonable for the services offered, especially compared to the competition. But given it's not really what many were actually after (we just wanted a @example.com gmail account!) and are left with a handicapped account, why would we want to pay up?
I have one simple rule. Never rely on Google for anything . Not email, not cloud storage, not infrastructure, *anything*. If you're going to use one of their products, cost-in the expense of moving everything out at a moments notice and keep constant backups of your data. My advice to anyone is to just avoid using Google for anything you expect to use long term.
A lot of us have been using it for more than a decade. I'm going to look around, but $6 / user / month doesn't seem outrageous to me.
I feel like I would comfortably fit into any sane "free tier" they wanted to offer with some restrictions and low volume limits.
I have been planning to move more and more of my personal email over to my personal domain (currently mostly all running on my @gmail.com address), and eventually would have been happy to pay for the privilege once I started consuming more and more resources.
I'll see how I feel in 6 months if I've bothered to migrate over, but I might as well now look at alternative options.
I think a class action is in order here. Two claims: 1) False advertising. A lot of it.... 2) All those Google purchases....
It's the purchases for me. I'd be ok with every user in my domain getting converted into standalone Google accounts. If they don't do something, I'm going to think about emailing every developer I've ever bought an app from and asking them if they can move my purchase to an alternate GMail account. I'll at least do it for anything expensive that I still use. I'd love to see a class action lawsuit for Google Play purc…
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Shameless plug but https://epostflytt.se is a online mail transfer tool. Coming to think about it we should add calendar and contacts as well.
What is it? I can't read the page but am interested in something that could ease migration.
You can add several mail accounts and get a mail when the transfer is complete.
My retired mother and retired father are both considered "users" and so are my numerous service accounts. This will cost me almost a thousand dollars a year for three actual humans that use the service for nothing more than gmail.
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It costs more for a single user on Google Workspace or MS365 than it used to cost for shared hosting that came with 50-Unlimited email accounts. Small businesses that only need email are getting royally screwed by big tech. Everything is more complex, has no additional features, and is a solid 10x what it should actually cost once you have 10+ users on email. And before anyone chimes in about needing to deal with bac…
You get Exchange with the Microsoft offering, which offers things like (good) calendars and contacts, and push email to your mobile phone, which you could do with IMAP but many of those shared hosting platforms didn't have to begin with. Exchange is $1 per month, which is perhaps a little more than shared hosting but you get way more features.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/exchange/compa...
I'm a G Suite legacy user that is affected by this change, primarily using it for personal email. Extremely, extremely annoyed that Android app purchases will be lost. Since I also have Apple devices I'm considering moving over to iCloud+ since they now support 3 email boxes and 5 domain names per account: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212514 Other options I'm researching include Outlook Premium and Zohomail. Wil…