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FastMail(.fm) costs $19.95 per year with 1 GB of storage and $39.95 with 10 GB of storage. And no ads, no NSA etc. Stop complaining. Change provider.
by dotcoma 13y ago
FastMail(.fm) costs $19.95 per year with 1 GB of storage and $39.95 with 10 GB of storage. And no ads, no NSA etc.
Stop complaining. Change provider.
- amyunus 13y agoI read information there, instead of complaint. It's just like we live in the city and there are many ads on the road. Ads in Google Mail, so far, are not so annoying as other free email provider did.
- conroy 13y agoFrom the Fastmail thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6070070 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6070070 Fastmail has servers in the United States (https://www.fastmail.fm/help/overview_about.html https://www.fastmail.fm/help/overview_about.html), which means the NSA can still request access to those servers.
- nmjenkins 13y agoI work for FastMail. We (Opera Software Australia) are an Australian company, subject to Australian privacy laws regardless of the location of our servers. We legally must only respond to Australian law enforcement agencies with valid Australian warrants (summary of the law is available here: https://www.efa.org.au/Issues/Privacy/tia.html https://www.efa.org.au/Issues/Privacy/tia.html).
- windsurfer 13y agoWhat happens if your hosting company gets an NSA request to access your servers?
- ceejayoz 13y agoBeing Australian probably makes it easier on the NSA, not harder. They're allowed to spy unfettered on foreigners.
- medde 13y agoI thought that the NSA was grabbing all data going through the cables at large ISPs so that they don't need to send requests at individual companies? For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
- jrockway 13y agoWhat leads you to believe that the NSA isn't monitoring FastMail?
- PurplePanda 13y agoThe article was about intrusive advertisements not who is or isn't monitoring which email providers. Switching to fast mail solves the problem the article was complaining about!
- scmccarthy 13y agodotcoma's comment however, claimed "no NSA etc". While it's not pertinent to this article, I think pointing out spurious claims (which people might be believing and acting on) has value regardless.
- mineo 13y agoBut dotcomas comment was claiming "No NSA".
- adventured 13y ago$19.95 for 1gb of storage? Never thought I'd consider $1.66 / month to be a rip off.
- dangrossman 13y agoRackspace Mail is $2/mo/mailbox. That gets you a 100% uptime SLA, 25GB storage, configurable daily backups and 24/7/365 phone/chat/mail support. http://www.rackspace.com/email-hosting/ http://www.rackspace.com/email-hosting/
- kexek 13y agoPrice is kinda misleading. It requires to add Microsoft Exchange (+10$ per month) or buy 5+ mailboxes
- Karunamon 13y agoAlmost certainly NSA'd, their SLA is along the same line as Google's (i.e. your compensation for critical email going down is an absolute pittance), not sure why I should be handling the backups. Nice support, though. One thing that Rackspace is really, really good at.
- codeka 13y agoOr Google Apps for $50 per year with 30GB of storage. No need to change platforms.
- agilebyte 13y agoOr use Namecheap Email Hosting which is free for the first year and beginning at $2.99/year (3GB) after that. It uses Open-Xchange as the web UI.
- aet 13y agoAnother option, Lavabit is $16 for 2 years.