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It was free for unlimited accounts (I still have a G Suite Legacy account that was grandfathered into that) at first. Eventually unlimited free accounts was dr

It was free for unlimited accounts (I still have a G Suite Legacy account that was grandfathered into that) at first. Eventually unlimited free accounts was dropped to 50, in 2009 (my grandfathered account was soft-capped at that, with the option to reach out to support to increase it), but I had several other domains that were hard-capped at 50 since I opened them after that limit was instituted. [1] Then that limit was dropped from 50 to 10 (hard capped, grand-fathered accounts kept their old limits) in 2011. [2] Then last but not least there was the 1 user free if you had a Google AppEngine project (that came with the requirement that it was tied to a G-Suite at the time). My G Suite legacy accounts were all created in 2007-2010 timeframe. [1]: https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2009/01/50-user-limit-for-new-standard-edition.html https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2009/01/50-user-limi... [2]: https://cloud.googleblog.com/2011/04/helping-small-businesses-start-and.html https://cloud.googleblog.com/2011/04/helping-small-businesse...

Aloha 5y ago
Have you even gotten an email from them yet on your oldest accounts? Mine is from '08 and I have heard no official communications from them.
- InvaderFizz 5y ago
  No email here. Mine is from the very early days, pretty much as soon as it became available as Google Apps for Domains. I have a 200 user cap because I requested more than whatever the default was. I have a total of 3 active accounts, everything else is just a forwarder. I use it as a forwarder to my gmail, but now I have to migrate my parents off their accounts. It will either end up as Gmail or Outlook.com for them. Migrating their email will be annoying. I maintain a full GSuite Business account for other purposes, so I can use that as my mail relay service. Thanks to routing rules, they'll continue to receive emails transparently, it will redirect a copy to their new email, as if they were a BCC. I'll handle the groups the same, only a few and the routing rule can add 100 recipients. Eventually, once cloudflare email forwarding supports groups, I'll just move to that. It's on their internal roadmap, so maybe it will happen before 2024.
  - Aloha 5y ago
    I think I may have figured out why the very oldest accounts have not received notifications about this change. I dont think they can/will do it for anyone prior to December of 2011. http://googlepress.blogspot.com/2006/08/google-launches-hosted-communications_28.html http://googlepress.blogspot.com/2006/08/google-launches-host... "A standard edition of Google Apps for Your Domain is available today as a beta product without cost to domain administrators or end users. Key features include 2 gigabytes of email storage for each user, easy to use customization tools, and help for administrators via email or an online help center. Furthermore, organizations that sign up during the beta period will not ever have to pay for users accepted during that period (provided Google continues to offer the service)." The original version of the TOS from August 2006 read as follows: https://web.archive.org/web/20061029132431/https://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/admins/terms.html https://web.archive.org/web/20061029132431/https://www.googl... "16. Modification. Except as provided in Section 17, Google reserves the right to change or modify any of the terms and conditions contained in this Agreement or any policy governing Google Apps, at any time, by posting the new agreement at http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/admins/terms.html http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/admins/terms.html or such URL as Google may provide. Customer is responsible for regularly reviewing any updates to this Agreement. Any changes or modifications to this Agreement will become binding (i) when made in a writing executed by both parties, (ii) by Customer's online acceptance of updated terms, or (iii) after Customer's continued use of Google Apps after such terms have been updated by Google." "17. No Fees. Provided that Google continues to offer Google Apps for Your Domain to Customer, Google will continue to provide a version of Google Apps for Your Domain (with substantially the same services as those provided as of the Effective Date) free of charge to Customer; provided that such commitment (i) applies only to End User Accounts created during the period when the Google Hosted Services are considered a beta service (the "Beta Period") by Google (such Beta Period determination at Google's sole discretion) and (ii) may not apply to new opt-in services added by Google to the Google Apps for Your Domain in the future. For sake of clarity, Google reserves the right to offer a premium version of Google Apps for Your Domain for a fee." In mid 2007 the language was changed to read the following: https://web.archive.org/web/20070407174217/http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/admins/terms.html https://web.archive.org/web/20070407174217/http://www.google... "17. Modification. Except as provided in Section 18, Google reserves the right to change or modify any of the terms and conditions contained in this Agreement or any policy governing the Service, at any time, by posting the new agreement at http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/admins/terms.html http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/admins/terms.html or such URL as Google may provide. Customer is responsible for regularly reviewing any updates to this Agreement. Any changes or modifications to this Agreement will become binding (i) when made in a writing executed by both parties, (ii) by Customer's online acceptance of updated terms, or (iii) after Customer's continued use of the Service after such terms have been updated by Google." "18. Fees. Provided that Google continues to offer the Service to Customer, Google will continue to provide a version of the Service (with substantially the same services as those provided as of the Effective Date) free of charge to Customer; provided that such commitment: (i) does not apply to the Domain Service described in Section 4 above; and (ii) may not apply to new opt-in services added by Google to the Service in the future. For sake of clarity, Google reserves the right to offer a premium version of the Service for a fee." This version was persisting thru at least March of 2011: https://web.archive.org/web/20110330181415/http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/terms/standard_terms.html https://web.archive.org/web/20110330181415/http://www.google... However by December of 2011, that language was gone: https://web.archive.org/web/20111231230542/http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/terms/standard_terms.html https://web.archive.org/web/20111231230542/http://www.google...
- henriks 5y ago
  No communications to my account from '06 either, first read about this here.
- filchermcurr 5y ago
  Mine is also around 2008. No e-mail, nothing in the billing section, and nothing in the dashboard.
- ArchOversight 5y ago
  I have not received an email, but logging in to the account there's a notice now that tells me about the impending changes. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ It's finally time to migrate away, I've been putting it off, but so far the accounts I created seem to have mostly become dormant, so only one user has to change, and I'll just re-create them an IMAP account for their mail, they don't use any other services.

Aloha 5y ago

Have you even gotten an email from them yet on your oldest accounts? Mine is from '08 and I have heard no official communications from them.

InvaderFizz 5y ago
No email here. Mine is from the very early days, pretty much as soon as it became available as Google Apps for Domains. I have a 200 user cap because I requested more than whatever the default was. I have a total of 3 active accounts, everything else is just a forwarder. I use it as a forwarder to my gmail, but now I have to migrate my parents off their accounts. It will either end up as Gmail or Outlook.com for them. Migrating their email will be annoying. I maintain a full GSuite Business account for other purposes, so I can use that as my mail relay service. Thanks to routing rules, they'll continue to receive emails transparently, it will redirect a copy to their new email, as if they were a BCC. I'll handle the groups the same, only a few and the routing rule can add 100 recipients. Eventually, once cloudflare email forwarding supports groups, I'll just move to that. It's on their internal roadmap, so maybe it will happen before 2024.
- Aloha 5y ago
  I think I may have figured out why the very oldest accounts have not received notifications about this change. I dont think they can/will do it for anyone prior to December of 2011. http://googlepress.blogspot.com/2006/08/google-launches-hosted-communications_28.html http://googlepress.blogspot.com/2006/08/google-launches-host... "A standard edition of Google Apps for Your Domain is available today as a beta product without cost to domain administrators or end users. Key features include 2 gigabytes of email storage for each user, easy to use customization tools, and help for administrators via email or an online help center. Furthermore, organizations that sign up during the beta period will not ever have to pay for users accepted during that period (provided Google continues to offer the service)." The original version of the TOS from August 2006 read as follows: https://web.archive.org/web/20061029132431/https://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/admins/terms.html https://web.archive.org/web/20061029132431/https://www.googl... "16. Modification. Except as provided in Section 17, Google reserves the right to change or modify any of the terms and conditions contained in this Agreement or any policy governing Google Apps, at any time, by posting the new agreement at http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/admins/terms.html http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/admins/terms.html or such URL as Google may provide. Customer is responsible for regularly reviewing any updates to this Agreement. Any changes or modifications to this Agreement will become binding (i) when made in a writing executed by both parties, (ii) by Customer's online acceptance of updated terms, or (iii) after Customer's continued use of Google Apps after such terms have been updated by Google." "17. No Fees. Provided that Google continues to offer Google Apps for Your Domain to Customer, Google will continue to provide a version of Google Apps for Your Domain (with substantially the same services as those provided as of the Effective Date) free of charge to Customer; provided that such commitment (i) applies only to End User Accounts created during the period when the Google Hosted Services are considered a beta service (the "Beta Period") by Google (such Beta Period determination at Google's sole discretion) and (ii) may not apply to new opt-in services added by Google to the Google Apps for Your Domain in the future. For sake of clarity, Google reserves the right to offer a premium version of Google Apps for Your Domain for a fee." In mid 2007 the language was changed to read the following: https://web.archive.org/web/20070407174217/http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/admins/terms.html https://web.archive.org/web/20070407174217/http://www.google... "17. Modification. Except as provided in Section 18, Google reserves the right to change or modify any of the terms and conditions contained in this Agreement or any policy governing the Service, at any time, by posting the new agreement at http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/admins/terms.html http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/admins/terms.html or such URL as Google may provide. Customer is responsible for regularly reviewing any updates to this Agreement. Any changes or modifications to this Agreement will become binding (i) when made in a writing executed by both parties, (ii) by Customer's online acceptance of updated terms, or (iii) after Customer's continued use of the Service after such terms have been updated by Google." "18. Fees. Provided that Google continues to offer the Service to Customer, Google will continue to provide a version of the Service (with substantially the same services as those provided as of the Effective Date) free of charge to Customer; provided that such commitment: (i) does not apply to the Domain Service described in Section 4 above; and (ii) may not apply to new opt-in services added by Google to the Service in the future. For sake of clarity, Google reserves the right to offer a premium version of the Service for a fee." This version was persisting thru at least March of 2011: https://web.archive.org/web/20110330181415/http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/terms/standard_terms.html https://web.archive.org/web/20110330181415/http://www.google... However by December of 2011, that language was gone: https://web.archive.org/web/20111231230542/http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/terms/standard_terms.html https://web.archive.org/web/20111231230542/http://www.google...
henriks 5y ago
No communications to my account from '06 either, first read about this here.
filchermcurr 5y ago
Mine is also around 2008. No e-mail, nothing in the billing section, and nothing in the dashboard.
ArchOversight 5y ago
I have not received an email, but logging in to the account there's a notice now that tells me about the impending changes. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ It's finally time to migrate away, I've been putting it off, but so far the accounts I created seem to have mostly become dormant, so only one user has to change, and I'll just re-create them an IMAP account for their mail, they don't use any other services.