Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying

Post by below43 » Thu, Jan 20, 2022, 9:28 PM UTC

inyorgroove wrote: post #661

theshrike79 wrote: post #646

Well, shit. My home town has a tiny hobbyist theatre group. Their shows have like 30 people in them max, and half of those are family and friends. I set up a G Suite for them to handle email, because it was - you know - within their budget of 0€. There's no fucking way they can start paying 12€/user/month. That's more than they make from a show :D Any alternatives with reasonable pricing for ~5 people?

iCloud+ ($0.99/month in US) allows custom domains with 5 emails. I set iCloud to forward by creating a on addressed to rule. Configured the "Accounts/Import" in my gmail account with smtp (I always used this with my vanity emails). Not exactly the same as before for your usecase perhaps (everyone will need a free gmail), but about as cheap as I could find per recommendation elsewhere in this thread.

Post by below43 » Thu, Jan 20, 2022, 9:33 PM UTC

halostatue wrote: post #113

Does anyone have any recommendations on _easy and inexpensive_ ways to migrate an entire family off this (6–7 users)? The value we get is _not_ worth ~$500 US per year. I don’t need a full business suite. I mostly need the email and calendar. I’d need to poll other people whether they use Google Drive or not.

Post by deadgiveaway » Thu, Jan 20, 2022, 9:35 PM UTC

neogodless wrote: post #737

hatch_q wrote: post #696

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Users won't lose anything purchased - your google login will stay the same (Same as you can use your Yahoo e-mail as google login), you will just lose g suite domain hosting.

I'm not following your line of thought. G Suite domain hosting includes the email address and the user licenses (albeit free ones.) If you stop paying for G Suite (Google Workspace) the user licenses will be revoked. They will not be able to login to Google services, access Play Store / Music / Movies purchases, etc.

Post by jacquesm » Thu, Jan 20, 2022, 9:40 PM UTC

l33tman wrote: post #485

theossuary wrote: post #226

I'm definitely getting screwed over by this. I've hosted close friend's and family's email for a decade now on an old G Apps instance. We only ever used it for email on a custom domain. It was most useful because I could reset passwords for them if they forgot it. Now I'm going to have to figure out what to do. Microsoft's Family offering is way better (not saying much considering Google doesn't have one). Right now…

You're complaining that a service you use all the time for a decade for free now might cost the equivalent of a cup of coffee per month? I'm all about Google being evil and all that, but spending valuable aggression on this seems a bit excessive.. The Google Takeout system gives you all of your email in a format you might be able to import into another system?

Post by physhster » Thu, Jan 20, 2022, 9:43 PM UTC