Obligatory XKCD 743: https://xkcd.com/743
A lot of people use "privacy" as a shorthand way to reference the larger issue of trust when it comes to companies like Google. Yes, GW does provide a lot of features that may fall perfectly in line with what users want. But there is more to infrastructure than just "does it have feature X?" Google in general has shown that it is not reliable from an infrastructure standpoint. They have a tendency to kill projects, and those projects that are not killed will someday change and end users often have no say in the matter. The fact that GW provides the requested features today is moot, because tomorrow those features could be removed or changed rendering your conclusion incorrect. Rational people generally avoid Google because they trusted them in the past, got burned and learned from the experience. IIRC there was a discussion very similar to this on G+.... let me get you a link... ;) -Ben On Thursday, August 8th, 2024 at 8:49 AM, mo <[email protected]> wrote: > Not really. > > Privacy? Considering the insane amount everyone puts on social media, what > privacy is there? Plus anything other self hosted = someone has your data. > > Market diversity? Idk what that one means precisely. > > GW not Gmail. So not free. > > 144% for 1000% more services than mere email host. > > So nope, don't understand even slightly why rational ppl would not choose > GW in this scenario. But I appreciate the effort regardless. > > On Thu, Aug 8, 2024, 07:29 Tomas Kuchta [email protected] > > wrote: > > > Privacy, market diversity, not having all eggs in one basket, gmail is free > > anyway, .... and 12*6=72 that happens to be 144% of 50 > > > > I hope that gives you some idea what others may or may not think about when > > chosing a service provider. > > > > Tomas > > > > On Wed, Aug 7, 2024, 11:36 mo [email protected] wrote: > > > > > If $50/yr, why not just use Google Workspace? $6/mo for all their > > > services. > > > I'm asking bc I want the cons of using GW. > > > > > > On Wed, Aug 7, 2024, 01:18 Tomas Kuchta [email protected] > > > wrote: > > > > > > > ++ for fastmail email hosting. > > > > > > > > Works great with(out) own domain for $50 per year. > > > > > > > > The only feature I am missing - their calendar foes not export birthday > > > > calendar over IMAP. > > > > > > > > -T > > > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 6, 2024, 16:13 Courtney Rosenthal [email protected] > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Yeah, been there, done that. > > > > > > > > > > When I quit email self-hosting I went to fastmail.com. It works out > > > > > to > > > > > $50 per mailbox per year. I have a bunch of domains there. I setup > > > > > aliases in those domains that forward into one of two mailboxes. So > > > > > it's > > > > > costing me about $100/yr for that and I'm super satisfied. > > > > > > > > > > They won't do DNS though. I'm using cloudns.net and I'm very > > > > > satisfied > > > > > with them. I've had to use their support a few times (for their > > > > > monitoring service) and they've been super responsive -- including > > > > > implementing a feature request I made. > > > > > > > > > > On 8/6/24 14:34, Michael Rasmussen wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > I'm winding down my self-hosted web space. Part of this is finding > > > > > > a > > > > > > place to host jamhome.us - or more accurately the email portion. > > > > > > > > > > > > Can you recommend a place that would do that? They can host the > > > > > > domain > > > > > > name too. > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > Courtney Rosenthal / [email protected] / www.crosenthal.com
