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Can you list a couple? I’m interested in moving my email, document storage, and document manipulation (word and sheet stuff) to one nice solution somewhere else

Can you list a couple? I’m interested in moving my email, document storage, and document manipulation (word and sheet stuff) to one nice solution somewhere else.

toastal 4y ago
Why does it have to be in one place? There are dozens of cheap and fairly private email providers and you can run spreadsheets locally or self-host an Etherpad.
- SamoyedFurFluff 4y ago
  If you need to ask this you’re not understanding the business need Google is providing me.
  - lobocinza 4y ago
    What will happen to your business the day Google decides to arbitrarily ban your account? You don't understand the risk.
  - MerelyMortal 4y ago
    No one can understand something you don't say.
  - sokoloff 4y ago
    You're making a choice to prioritize whatever unsaid things Google is giving you without support over a company (or set of companies) who will give you something different but with support. That's totally fine, so long as realize that that's the choice that you're making.
  - zhte415 4y ago
    A business that is critically dependent on IT having no expertise in basic critical things like hosting email somewhere is akin to a gardener choosing to water their plants with Brawndo because it's got electrolytes.
gumby 4y ago
For example microsoft will give you mail and shared docs, for example. Use your own domain. I’ve used it, it’s ok, certainly no worse than google and you get a much better text editor, spreadsheet, and actual Powerpoint if you need that. I think you can get sso across github, linkedin, teams instead of zoom, etc too, though I haven’t tried. If you use Apple you can use icloud/iwork which has shared editing, etc, but I don’t know if it has support. It’s pretty bare bones but basically free for a small operation. You can get nextcloud as a hosted service instead of running it yourself. Etc No matter what you choose you’re not getting a fully integrated experience — you’ll likely have slack, jira, github, AWS etc regardless. So fast mail + Dropbox might be great for you. For example going MS or Google won’t mean you’ll want to use azure or google cloud unless you have a very specialized application, no matter what their salespeople think.
- raxxorraxor 4y ago
  Microsoft randomly and quickly suspends accounts as well. Nextcloud from a smaller hosting provider is probably the best solution.
- magicalhippo 4y ago
  > Use your own domain. This requires one to use GoDaddy as the registrar[1], which is a hard pass for me. [1]: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/get-a-personalized-email-address-in-microsoft-365-75416a58-b225-4c02-8c07-8979403b427b https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/get-a-personalize...
gumby 4y ago
This just showed up in my feed: These G Suite Alternatives Are Cheaper or Free https://lifehacker.com/these-g-suite-alternatives-are-cheaper-or-free-1849097965 https://lifehacker.com/these-g-suite-alternatives-are-cheape...

Can you list a couple? I’m interested in moving my email, document storage, and document manipulation (word and sheet stuff) to one nice solution somewhere else.

toastal 4y ago

Why does it have to be in one place? There are dozens of cheap and fairly private email providers and you can run spreadsheets locally or self-host an Etherpad.

SamoyedFurFluff 4y ago
If you need to ask this you’re not understanding the business need Google is providing me.
- lobocinza 4y ago
  What will happen to your business the day Google decides to arbitrarily ban your account? You don't understand the risk.
- MerelyMortal 4y ago
  No one can understand something you don't say.
- sokoloff 4y ago
  You're making a choice to prioritize whatever unsaid things Google is giving you without support over a company (or set of companies) who will give you something different but with support. That's totally fine, so long as realize that that's the choice that you're making.
- zhte415 4y ago
  A business that is critically dependent on IT having no expertise in basic critical things like hosting email somewhere is akin to a gardener choosing to water their plants with Brawndo because it's got electrolytes.

gumby 4y ago

For example microsoft will give you mail and shared docs, for example. Use your own domain. I’ve used it, it’s ok, certainly no worse than google and you get a much better text editor, spreadsheet, and actual Powerpoint if you need that. I think you can get sso across github, linkedin, teams instead of zoom, etc too, though I haven’t tried. If you use Apple you can use icloud/iwork which has shared editing, etc, but I don’t know if it has support. It’s pretty bare bones but basically free for a small operation. You can get nextcloud as a hosted service instead of running it yourself. Etc No matter what you choose you’re not getting a fully integrated experience — you’ll likely have slack, jira, github, AWS etc regardless. So fast mail + Dropbox might be great for you. For example going MS or Google won’t mean you’ll want to use azure or google cloud unless you have a very specialized application, no matter what their salespeople think.

raxxorraxor 4y ago
Microsoft randomly and quickly suspends accounts as well. Nextcloud from a smaller hosting provider is probably the best solution.
magicalhippo 4y ago
> Use your own domain. This requires one to use GoDaddy as the registrar[1], which is a hard pass for me. [1]: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/get-a-personalized-email-address-in-microsoft-365-75416a58-b225-4c02-8c07-8979403b427b https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/get-a-personalize...

gumby 4y ago

This just showed up in my feed: These G Suite Alternatives Are Cheaper or Free https://lifehacker.com/these-g-suite-alternatives-are-cheaper-or-free-1849097965 https://lifehacker.com/these-g-suite-alternatives-are-cheape...