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> What's an alternative It’s called paying for the services you use. You don’t even need to switch to a different product / provider, just pay $5/month and ~$1
by jsjohnst 9y ago
> What's an alternative
It’s called paying for the services you use. You don’t even need to switch to a different product / provider, just pay $5/month and ~$10/year for a domain name. Then worst case scenario, you can move your domain off of Google Apps and not need to update your email address everywhere with everyone.
- crazygringo 9y agoI don't think you read the article: "They don’t have customer service, yet I’m paying for storage."
- jsjohnst 9y ago1) please check the rules of HN before replying that way 2) I did read the article, paying for Google Drive or Photos storage is not paying for Gmail.
- crazygringo 9y ago1) Apologies 2) The article isn't about Gmail, it's about an entire Google account where the author stated they ARE paying for extra storage for Gmail and Drive -- where you seemed to imply they're not paying. And buying your own domain does nothing for getting access back to your 10,000's of past e-mails or your 100's of GB's of files you're paying to store.
- bartvk 9y agoOf course you have to back them up yourself. But that's true for any service.
- jsjohnst 9y ago> And buying your own domain does nothing for getting access back to your 10,000's of past e-mails Now if only Google had a way to “take out” your data and made it trivial to have backups for emergencies.
- bartvk 9y agoExactly this. I truly don't understand that people put their professional career on the line for the price of a domain name. I also use GMail, it's incredibly useful. But it's my own domain, and if there's a problem, I point the MX records of my domain name to another email provider and forget about Google.