Update (28 January 2022 12PM IST): Ona support page, Google said it’s developing a tool to “move your non-Google Workspace paid content and most of your data to a no-cost option.” You can also upgrade your subscription to a paid option with a 50% discount on the first year’s fees.
If you own a business, your administrator can usethe Google Takeout toolto move to a new Google account with your data intact.
Google has done it again.After killing free unlimited storage onGoogle Photoslast year,it has announced that G Suite will become a paid-only feature.
As9to5Googlereported, all free G Suite users will be automatically upgraded to a premium plan from May 1. If the company doesn’t have your payment details, you need to update your account by July 1 — or face a shutdown. You can learn more about this on thissupport page.
G Suite’s free offering was godsend for bloggers or small-time website owners who could just own a domain name, and use email (and other services) for no cost.
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Microsoft
The Seattle-based tech giant can offer youa slightly cheaper solution at $5 a month. This will get you access to a 50GB inbox with an option to use your own domain name for it. Plus, you’ll get web and mobile versions of Office apps, and 1TB OneDrive storage.
Zoho
If you’re looking for something free, Zoho’s email service is the closest you can get. It offers email hosting for a single domain for no cost, but comes with 5GB/user and 25MB attachment limits.
Rackspace
This US-based company offers email hosting for custom domains for a starting price of $2.99 per month. However, for $3.99 per month, you can get 30GB of storage and ActiveSync across all the apps.
You can check out the planshere.
Other cheap email hosting services
People are mad at Google for good reason
Unsurprisingly, people are mad. But it’s probably not for the reason you think.The issue that’s cropping up most isn’t about cost, rather the factGoogleis providing no way to migrate G Suite users to a personal Gmail account.Here are a selection of tweets about the issue:
.@Googlecharging legacy users isn’t an issue, but they provide no way to migrate/merge Legacy GSuite free accounts to personal accounts – rendering many families & individuals who got in early with domain name stuck in limbo with apps/calendars on the old accounts.?#gsuitehttps://t.co/drSXEQALQG
— Alex Hansford (@alexhansford)January 20, 2022
13 years of#Gsuitefor me and my family and now they’re killing it.@Googleshould at least offer a decent way to migrate away to a standard#Gmailaccount including purchases.
— Samuel Lockhart (@LloydGSR)January 19, 2022
So, I can create a new @ gmail .com address.Download all my old email.Upload it to the new address.Set up mail forwarding with my domain.Add the DMARC/SPF/DKIM so gmail can send as my domain.Should work.Pity Google didn’t implement that as a 1-click solution!
— Terence Eden (@edent)January 20, 2022
Fucks sake. I’ve got a couple email addresses and YouTube accounts on legacy GSuite, and I have no intention of financially rewarding google for this bullshit. Email seems easy enough to migrate but YouTube…? Ouch.https://t.co/6pyH5oOTW7
— luna ? (@lunasorcery)January 20, 2022
If had my primary email’s life hanging by a thread, I’d react in the same way.
Hopefully, Google listens to users and bashes out a solution before July 1. But given its track record, I am not optimistic.
Story byIvan Mehta
Ivan covers Big Tech, India, policy, AI, security, platforms, and apps for TNW. That’s one heck of a mixed bag. He likes to say “Bleh.“Ivan covers Big Tech, India, policy, AI, security, platforms, and apps for TNW. That’s one heck of a mixed bag. He likes to say “Bleh.”
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