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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…
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?
Apple iCloud+ will let you have up to five custom domains, with up to three personalised email addresses per domain for just 0.79p (UK)
If you are just looking for email, that's shockingly good value. You do get iCloud Docs with that too, but that product offering is a bit naff and iOS/iPadOS/macOS only.
If you are using Apple products, it's very good value for money.
$20/mo still isn't bad for unlimited storage. Do any other providers come close to this price point? I wish I could prepay for the next 10 years to lock in at this price. How much does a petabyte of redundant hard drive storage cost? Yeah.. will probably still be more than $2,500 USD in 10 years.
I don't think there's an option to even pay for one year right now. It at least was the case last year when they pulled the plug on free tier and I had reluctantly give them credit card information for essentially a one person company.
Thread B: WTF, I have to pay for a web site?
$20/mo still isn't bad for unlimited storage. Do any other providers come close to this price point? I wish I could prepay for the next 10 years to lock in at this price. How much does a petabyte of redundant hard drive storage cost? Yeah.. will probably still be more than $2,500 USD in 10 years.
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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.
I use Zoho for email along with https://workspace.google.com/essentials/ Works beautifully I do miss Gmail, but it's easy to workaround it
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?
One thing that people are surprised by when I tell them is; Apple iCloud+ will let you have up to five custom domains, with up to three personalised email addresses per domain for just 0.79p (UK) If you are just looking for email, that's shockingly good value. You do get iCloud Docs with that too, but that product offering is a bit naff and iOS/iPadOS/macOS only. If you are using Apple products, it's very good value…
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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.
Google's office tools are much nicer than Microsoft's web ones. I'd say they even give the desktop versions a run for their money. And Meet is amazing. The only video conferencing system I've used that actually works reliably . I recently moved from a company using Zoom to one using Meet and the difference is insane. Makes a step difference to the quality of remote work. I presume they can do it because Google owns t…
$20/mo still isn't bad for unlimited storage. Do any other providers come close to this price point? I wish I could prepay for the next 10 years to lock in at this price. How much does a petabyte of redundant hard drive storage cost? Yeah.. will probably still be more than $2,500 USD in 10 years.
I have 80TB on a $20 a month account. Hope they don’t either kick me off or bump it too much.
$20/mo still isn't bad for unlimited storage. Do any other providers come close to this price point? I wish I could prepay for the next 10 years to lock in at this price. How much does a petabyte of redundant hard drive storage cost? Yeah.. will probably still be more than $2,500 USD in 10 years.
I have 80TB on a $20 a month account. Hope they don’t either kick me off or bump it too much.
As a sidenote, I'm disappointed by how slowly HDD capacity has been increasing the last few years.
100MB -> 1GB: 10x Was amazing
5GB -> 20GB: 4x Amazing
40GB -> 250GB: Hell yeah!
...
Nowadays the rate of increase is way down. 10TB -> 20TB: 0.5x meh. In the next 5 years we _might_ get a 30TB drive? Yawn.