Re:Alternatives to Google Products
by deadcast on Sunday June 10, 2018 @09:53PM
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I've enjoyed fastmail for many years as an alternative to gmail. I've never once had any issues with them and their UI has been very responsive. They also give you a MASSIVE list of domain names to choose from! ^_^
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Re:Alternatives to Google Products
by jamiepenney on Sunday June 10, 2018 @10:02PM
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I started using fastmail for my business domain, it's going pretty good so far.
I'm in the process of switching over to fastmail. I'm pretty happy with it so far.
How is their spam filtering. For me gmail really does an outstanding job in that regard and it's hard to beat them.
Unfortunately, Fastmail is very expensive.
Re:Alternatives to Google Products
by brongondwana on Monday June 11, 2018 @06:10AM
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Unfortunately it costs money to hire people and run servers, and we have to pay for it somehow! Over 1/3 of our staff are first line customer support, and you get through to the engineers actually building and running the product quite quickly if you find an issue that the support team can't help you with directly.
The alternative is trying to monitise the userbase some other way, and we're not interested in that game. We have no advertising, no data sales, and no ethical conundrums or regrets about that choice!
Cheers.
$50 per year for what is arguably one of the most important services/tools you use? That's not very expensive to me.
Expensive? It's cheaper than G-Suite...
$3/month is quite reasonable