I don't forced by anyone. I'm trying to understand the reasons ppl don't choose it & if those reasons make sense to me. aka gathering as much data as ppl will share.
G Corp doesn't need me to market anything; the big boys have plenty of humans & budget for that already. They may need to pay off a few more anti trust judges however 🤣. On Fri, Aug 9, 2024, 08:56 Tomas Kuchta <[email protected]> wrote: > I have not intended to force anything on you - please do not be upset - it > is OK for other people to make different decision, value thing differently, > and read the original email for what it is. > > If you are G corp marketing or huge fan - please just ignore my comment. It > was not meant for you. > > -T > > On Thu, Aug 8, 2024, 11:50 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
