A startup’s Firebase bill suddenly increased from $25 to $1750 per month

Re:A startup’s Firebase bill suddenly increased from $25 to ... by dkersten on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @06:58AM (#14357249)

I switched to fastmail a year ago and have never been happier. Their support also responds!

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Re:A startup’s Firebase bill suddenly increased from $25 to ... by distances on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @07:03AM (#14357282)

FastMail is so much better than GMail. I don't know why I didn't change earlier.

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Re:A startup’s Firebase bill suddenly increased from $25 to ... by dkersten on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @07:15AM (#14357336)

Yeah, I thought I'd miss GMail, but I really didn't. I used Google Inbox for a while too and thought I'd miss that, but now I use Spark as my mail client so I don't even miss that either.

It was more of a mental "but but my decade-long history of gmail" thing, but it turned out that really was less of a big deal than I thought. I now have a nice custom domain and I forward my gmail to my fastmail, updating subscriptions every so often. Eventually gmail will receive no more mail I care about and I will remove the forwarding altogether. Its getting there!

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Re:A startup’s Firebase bill suddenly increased from $25 to ... by mstade on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @07:31AM (#14357424)

This. I too dreaded the switch because of all the history, but the migration to fastmail was quick and painless, and I lost nothing. (Arguably, losing everything would've been better, so much useless noise in my history.)

Looking back on it now, about a year after migrating, my only regret is I didn't do it sooner.

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Re:A startup’s Firebase bill suddenly increased from $25 to ... by StavrosK on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @08:11AM (#14357608)

Exactly the same experience for me. It's so much faster, more convenient and useful, and the migration tool was a breeze to use, I should have done it years ago.

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Re:A startup’s Firebase bill suddenly increased from $25 to ... by ocdtrekkie on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @09:16AM (#14358073)

I just stopped by to join the little FastMail fan crowd over here.

If you aren't a FastMail customer yet, you're gonna assume we're shills. We're not, it's just the sort of quality product that makes you want to tell others. It's like having found Gmail in 2005.

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Re:A startup’s Firebase bill suddenly increased from $25 to ... by srinathrajaram on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @09:32AM (#14358203)

http://www.emaildiscussions.com/showthread.php?p=599512

No angels anywhere.

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Re:A startup’s Firebase bill suddenly increased from $25 to ... by dkersten on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @12:19PM (#14359948)

That seems like a minor issue in comparison to the issues with google discussed here. I mean, sure, they should honour the lifetime membership, but is it really worth losing sleep over something you paid $15 for 15 years ago (at the time of that message)?

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Re:A startup’s Firebase bill suddenly increased from $25 to ... by r3bl on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @10:55AM (#14359002)

Well, to be perfectly honest, you are paying for Fastmail, while Gmail is free.

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Re:A startup’s Firebase bill suddenly increased from $25 to ... by mdavidn on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @11:14AM (#14359228)

Oh, you're paying for Gmail. Just not in upfront dollars like with Fastmail.

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Re:A startup’s Firebase bill suddenly increased from $25 to ... by dkersten on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @12:12PM (#14359869)

Sure, but the sentiment in this entire discussion is how unreliable googles paid for service is (never mind their free stuff - have you ever tried to get support from google for gmail or other feee service? From what I've heard it's like talking to a wall). I'd rather pay for good service than get unknown service for free.

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