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Could you summarize the easy and hard aspects? Have you had any unexpected benefits or downsides?

• spiderfarmer 7mo ago
  For me: - SES was a big one. There was no affordable alternative at my (not big, not small) scale. - I'm still waning myself personally of GMail. That dependency took decades to build and it will take years for all ties to sever.
  • Aachen 7mo ago
    Maybe this comment downthread helps for the email problem? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47489711 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47489711
  • Galorious 7mo ago
    Have you checked out zeptomail by zoho? Not as low cost, but getting close. More basics build in.
    • entropie 7mo ago
      Not EU. > Zoho Corporation is an Indian multinational technology company that makes cloud-based office software.
      • felixg3 7mo ago
        They have EU datacenters and an actually staffed legal entity in Germany .
        • entropie 7mo ago
          If so they are not good in mentioning this.
  • koyote 7mo ago
    What is the difficulty in getting away from gmail? I did it a few years ago and I simply signed up for Fastmail and had gmail forward all email there. It forwards to a specific e-mail address so I can see if there are still people/companies that use the old email address. The painful part was going through all my accounts to update the e-mail, but you can do it in stages if you follow the above.