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Google Workspace increasing prices from April 11, 2023

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Re: Google Workspace increasing prices from April 11, 2023

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Post by donmcronald »

nunez wrote: post #41

I tried moving away from Workspace to Offi^H^H^HMicrosoft 365 last month. I chose 365 since my wife primarily uses a Surface and Microsoft products, which would make it easy for us to collaborate. It looks like an excellent solution for SMBs or larger who have a dedicated admin that can tend to it. For a nobody like me, it was a hot goddamned mess. Death by a few big cuts and thousands of small ones. These are the th…

> The migration service also didn't work! I had a few years of emails and calendars in my Workspace.

Migrating mail into MS365 is a terrible experience. I've set up over 30 tenants and migrated mail for them and there's no good tooling. Both the Microsoft options and all the 3rd party options I've tried do an extremely poor job or error handling and reconciliation.

Microsoft's IMAP sync is so bad at reconciliation that IMO it's reasonable to call the data integrity rating a lie. I've dealt with some really small mailboxes where you could almost grok the data just by skimming it and the (number of message) counts for imported mail were flat out wrong.

With the amount of money they charge per user per month you'd think there would be some incentive to create migration tooling that isn't hot trash, but maybe that's just me.

Re: Google Workspace increasing prices from April 11, 2023

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Post by joecool1029 »

nunez wrote: post #46
Rimintil wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Moving from GSuite to M365 is a fairly popular move. Consulting companies build around this service.

Much much MUCH easier said than done, especially if you've co-mingled your Google for Apps/G-Suite/Workspace account with other Google services. Migrating contacts and calendars is easy, thanks to open standards (unless you're migrating in bulk) Migrating email and validating the migration is a HUGE pain and takes forever. Data from any other Google service is basically unusable anywhere else. Yes, you can export it…

>Migrating contacts and calendars is easy, thanks to open standards (unless you're migrating in bulk)

Ehhhhh, Workspace has a half-assed EAS implementation that works until it doesn't (just had a client where it stopped exporting all his phone numbers, the data was still in Google but their EAS just wasn't outputting it). It's hardly an open standard but theoretically works for Outlook users migrating to Exchange.

Going anywhere else with an Outlook desktop user that actually follows the open standards (CardDav/CalDav) is extreme pain because Outlook lacks native support, so you need to use a plugin that will pull the data but not present it in the same way. The earlier mentioned client I moved to Fastmail and I still haven't figured out how to get his 'contact folders' to show and sync in Outlook without heavily customizing the views. Otherwise works in Android with DavX and iOS natively.

Re: Google Workspace increasing prices from April 11, 2023

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Post by partiallypro »

sarangab wrote: post #9

We switched from Google to Zoho Workspace last year once they threatened to stop support to the "legacy" users. Comparable service and much less expensive.

Zoho is great, if you only need email and basics. O365 and GSuite are still unmatched as a package though. Still think O365 is the best deal (for SMBs+), though it's a bit more.

Re: Google Workspace increasing prices from April 11, 2023

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Post by Aeolun »

nunez wrote: post #41

I tried moving away from Workspace to Offi^H^H^HMicrosoft 365 last month. I chose 365 since my wife primarily uses a Surface and Microsoft products, which would make it easy for us to collaborate. It looks like an excellent solution for SMBs or larger who have a dedicated admin that can tend to it. For a nobody like me, it was a hot goddamned mess. Death by a few big cuts and thousands of small ones. These are the th…

What’s wrong with a 50gb inbox? That’s what I get from Fastmail, and I’m not even scratching the surface.

Re: Google Workspace increasing prices from April 11, 2023

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Post by remus »

metadat wrote: post #49
shj2105 wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s not unlimited storage though? It used to be but my understanding is that they started enforcing the storage limits late last year.

Hmm, unfortunate if they discontinued it. Maybe my account was grandfathered in.

Not sure what subscription you're on but the highest tier still has "as much storage as you need" or similar wording. I assume they've moved away from the unlimited wording because it was abused.

Re: Google Workspace increasing prices from April 11, 2023

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Post by eschulz »

kweingar wrote: post #30
alberth wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let's not forget that just 3.5 years ago, prices were increase by 20% then as well. Starter: $5 -> $6 Standard: $10 -> $12 https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/g-suite/new-pricing-f... This nets to ~45% price increase in just 3.5 years.

Interestingly the new prices match inflation since April 2019 pretty closely ($6 then is $7.02 now, and the price is changing to $7.20).

That's exactly what I was thinking. $5 to $7.20 in four years isn't ideal, but seems like so many other essential goods and services have increased at a much higher rate over that period of time.

Re: Google Workspace increasing prices from April 11, 2023

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Post by mrbonner »

It is time for me to evaluate my custom domain email service. I had the original/free Google workspace with custom email domain. In 2021, they charged me $6/month to keep that option afloat. To be honest, I think $6/month is a bit expensive for just email usage. I don't even use any other stuff coming with Suite. My question for this group: how do I get out of this without losing my email domain?

Re: Google Workspace increasing prices from April 11, 2023

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Post by thomaslord »

My company was forced to move from our previous G Suite plan to Google Workspace. In order to keep the same monthly price, we went with Business Starter.

Now each user can only share a Google Doc with 5 non-Google users per month. This limitation seems entirely artificial and designed entirely to push people onto more expensive plans.

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