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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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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 the…
Fastmail and protonmail offer a lot more than just postfix+dovecot hosting. Fastmail developed new standard, brand new webmail UI, brand new webmail client. That's a lot of added value. Protonmail is heaven for crypto nerds which has its own intrinsic value as well. Ordinary mail hosting is nothing special. Anybody can do it with very little investments. Of course if they can charge for it, good for them. But I don't…
Fastmail also includes DNS, a few GB of storage and optionally static web hosting from said storage. They're also providing you with a caldav server for synced calendar, notes and contacts
Re: Gandi.net updates pricing, increases rates by up to 1000%
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Fuck. Gandi was my go-to privacy-conscious domain registrar. What viable alternatives exist that aren't cash-grabbing vultures and aren't beholden to US globalist interests?
Porkbun [0] is often recommended. Based in the US though. 0: https://porkbun.com/
The team at https://iwantmyname.com/ always seemed small and friendly, and they’re based in NZ
Re: Gandi.net updates pricing, increases rates by up to 1000%
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I've been using mxroute to host some email for my family and random automation stuff for the past while. Really happy with them, I'm paying 15 USD a year on a recurring black Friday deal. I think that has 50GB storage, which is fine for my usecase. They have unlimited mail accounts, which is great, as some family members might only send or receive a handful of emails a month...
Another option is Purely Mail [0] which is who I'll be using if running my own Mail-in-a-box turns out to be a bit too much. It could end up being cheaper than mxroute depending on your needs. [0] https://purelymail.com/
Looks like a great option too, thanks.
Re: Gandi.net updates pricing, increases rates by up to 1000%
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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?
It doesn't tell me that they're catering for fascists.
Re: Gandi.net updates pricing, increases rates by up to 1000%
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Literally why I use them.
Excuse me, come again?
I use cloudflare because they stand up to the screeching mob and defend free speech. I moved all of my domains there from namecheap when namecheap took a particularly deplorable and irritatingly loud position with respect to Ukraine.
Free speech includes fascists, crims whatever that is, and whoever else you may or may not find detestable. I'd like them better if they still hosted The Daily Stormer, but I can't think of any other giant company taking consistent stands against the hegemony of the radical left.
And in case you consider my opinion a no-no as your response indicates to me, allow me to dig in a little deeper. I don't mind people I disagree with as long as they are mostly respectful in their disagreement. I don't think fascists or nazis or the KKK or whatever other boogeyman you can come up with make a very good case for their beliefs and they pose no real danger. I welcome their free speech as an important component of diverse opinion and expression in the public square. And I don't judge them wholesale for holding opinions I disagree with either.
Re: Gandi.net updates pricing, increases rates by up to 1000%
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
Excuse me, come again?
I use cloudflare because they stand up to the screeching mob and defend free speech. I moved all of my domains there from namecheap when namecheap took a particularly deplorable and irritatingly loud position with respect to Ukraine. Free speech includes fascists, crims whatever that is, and whoever else you may or may not find detestable. I'd like them better if they still hosted The Daily Stormer, but I can't think…
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Re: Gandi.net updates pricing, increases rates by up to 1000%
#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
Excuse me, come again?
I use cloudflare because they stand up to the screeching mob and defend free speech. I moved all of my domains there from namecheap when namecheap took a particularly deplorable and irritatingly loud position with respect to Ukraine. Free speech includes fascists, crims whatever that is, and whoever else you may or may not find detestable. I'd like them better if they still hosted The Daily Stormer, but I can't think…
> I use cloudflare because they stand up to the screeching mob and defend free speech.
Ah, your previous short quip made you look like you were agreeing not only with the part where they keep "crims and fascists" online, but also the part where they kick sex workers out — assuming they actually do, but since you neither denounced, denied, or even questioned it, it looked like you agreed with both the facts and morals of it.
You’d understand that this didn’t exactly makes you look like a neutral free speech defender.
> the hegemony of the radical left.
It’s hardly radical if it doesn’t question capitalism, and last time I checked anti-capitalism was far from hegemonic. I’m not sure what you actually mean by "radical left", but I’m guessing they tend to think more about systems than individuals, which may be alien enough to look radical from the other side.
> I don't think fascists or nazis or the KKK or whatever other boogeyman you can come up with make a very good case for their beliefs and they pose no real danger.
They don’t have to make a good case unfortunately. Like abusive cults, they can instead enrol vulnerable or disenfranchised people, ease them in, and eventually cut them off their previous entourage, to the point where you can no longer reason with them.
That, and the pipeline of influencers that makes the next small step down the far right path look quite okay, with no clear limit between a couple harmless edgy jokes and full blown literal Nazism (The Boys illustrates that radicalisation process fairly well).
Re: Gandi.net updates pricing, increases rates by up to 1000%
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They don't "just work" for my .dev domain names :(
Apparently coming soon, though it’s been on this page for at least a month. https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/tld-policies/
I think it's been listed as coming soon for a lot more than a month. We'll see if it ever arrives.
Re: Gandi.net updates pricing, increases rates by up to 1000%
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They don't "just work" for my .dev domain names :(
Apparently coming soon, though it’s been on this page for at least a month. https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/tld-policies/
It's been on that page since 2001. However, a more recently published article states "Note: We plan to support .dev and .app by mid-July 2023".
https://blog.cloudflare.com/a-step-by-step-guide-to-transfer...
However, it's now mid-July 2023 and still says unsupported on my dashboard.