Reply to: The end of free GSuite for business

[d000hg]

While I find GDrive/Docs extremely handy, the one thing Google does better than anyone else I've used is email. It was somewhat revolutionary when they first launched it and I still feel it's leagues ahead of Outlook.

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There's been a lot of bad feeling on this on the Google support fora. They seem to have simply back-tracked on all previous statements in favour of this "anyone can keep it if they click the link". The other free option being promised was to lose your email but keep the entire account contents.

I suppose they expect that a lot of these users won't bother updating their preferences and it will cost very little for some good PR.

I'm just glad it means I don't have to do anything quickly. I will end up moving things away from google but I have a few things where google is used for SSO and I can't remember what half of them are.

[d000hg]

There's been a lot of bad feeling on this on the Google support fora. They seem to have simply back-tracked on all previous statements in favour of this "anyone can keep it if they click the link". The other free option being promised was to lose your email but keep the entire account contents.

I suppose they expect that a lot of these users won't bother updating their preferences and it will cost very little for some good PR.

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Looks like Google have relented and are allowing people to keep it for non business use (and for me it’s non business use - it's the very weird family domain name).

click here to find the opt in link and The reg has the story at https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/...ontent=article

[1ne0fFU]

For the moment wait and see what google offer and fill in the form to say you use it for family purposes (I do, all business stuff is with MS).

Looks like Google are ignoring that then as they sent out an email this morning telling me to Switch now. If I don't take any action they will automatically switch me on June 1 2022 to the Google Workspace Subscription.

Perhaps it is a blanket email.. So still waiting for what our options are for my personal family domain.


edit..

The mail also mentioned this:-

Note: If you no longer want to use Gmail with your custom domain or the ability to manage multiple users, you’ll be able to join a waitlist in the Google Workspace Admin Console for a no-cost option in the coming weeks.

but looks like we won't get to keep our custom domains.

in the meantime looking at alternative services and saw this one:-

https://www.migadu.com/pricing/

It is not free, but cheaper

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have to find a free alternative for the Gsuite! Any advice?

For the moment wait and see what google offer and fill in the form to say you use it for family purposes (I do, all business stuff is with MS).

[SimonMac]

Were it just me, paying would be an option but we have 8 family accounts there and I'm not paying $50 a month

I will move them to the iCloud Custom Domain option as we already pay for it

[eek]

Yep, I'll be a bit gutted to lose it - while I don't love GSuite overall, I've had my personal e-mail hosted there since pretty much Day 1 in 2006/2007, and it's worked very well for me. Especially as I use a catch all domain).

TBH, I'll probably just start paying - at this point I'm really not sure there's a competitive free alternative, and moving to another paid service is just going to be huge hassle. But I need to see what the costs look like in that, I'm not sure what featureset I'll have to pay for

Were it just me, paying would be an option but we have 8 family accounts there and I'm not paying $50 a month

[vwdan]

Yep, I'll be a bit gutted to lose it - while I don't love GSuite overall, I've had my personal e-mail hosted there since pretty much Day 1 in 2006/2007, and it's worked very well for me. Especially as I use a catch all domain).

TBH, I'll probably just start paying - at this point I'm really not sure there's a competitive free alternative, and moving to another paid service is just going to be huge hassle. But I need to see what the costs look like in that, I'm not sure what featureset I'll have to pay for

[courtg9000]

Self hosted email - no thanks - that's just a world of pain...

Never self host the email - agreed
As for the rest of it .... Open Season

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...and risk. No matter how technical you are, it takes time and effort to keep this stuff locked down and up to date. I'd not want to be self-hosting email and be away on holiday somewhere when a new vulnerability is identified and in the wild.

+1 - running an email server is continual work - a website you can just host and keep running assuming you have sane firewalls - run an email server and you are continually trying to keep up to date with today's hacks.

If the choice is host my own or pay Google £50 a month - that £50 a month more than justifies the pain (and I'm not planning to pay £50 a month).

[Paralytic]

Self hosted email - no thanks - that's just a world of pain...

...and risk. No matter how technical you are, it takes time and effort to keep this stuff locked down and up to date. I'd not want to be self-hosting email and be away on holiday somewhere when a new vulnerability is identified and in the wild.

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I know of a good cost effective solution to GSuite. You need to be a bit technical though to sort it and it is self hosted!

Self hosted email - no thanks - that's just a world of pain...

[courtg9000]

I know of a good cost effective solution to GSuite. You need to be a bit technical though to sort it and it is self hosted!

[eek]

Have they removed the form link from the FAQ or is it just Friday and my brain is not working? All I see is "sign into your administrator account" which is the normal admin dashboard.

You haven't followed the instructions - if you visit the page having logged in to google with an administration account the FAQ looks like



The link in the red box changes when you are logged in correctly and return to the FAQ page.