Alternatives to G-Suite Free Edition for Email
I got a notice that my free version of "G Suite legacy free edition" I use to host my email domain is being discontinued. The option to move to their paid version is more expensive than the other options I have found so far. My users just have basic email and calendar use and no apps tied to this.
Besides the paid G-Suite options, I also looked at Microsoft (I'm most familiar with that) and Rackspace seems to offer a cheaper option for hosting email at just $2.99/user/month, but I'm not sure if I'm going to lose any features.
Any other suggestions?
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Reviews are great and I will read up, but I'd like to hear some word of mouth recommendations from my fellow Experts as well.
You can use a new domain for the tests, I always have a domain just for my tests.
I use O365 at the moment and I like it and it has many apps like teams and office suit and this is easy to set.
It has 50G space
You can compare options and price
https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/microsoft-365/business/compare-all-microsoft-365-business-products-b
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Contact your hosting provider and domain provider to see what they offer.
They usually offer cheap email hosting and most of them provide web interface to get online access.
Usually the cheapest is the email hosting that come with the web hosting.
I have a couple of customers in a similar situation, so I was hoping I will get some useful hints here.
On the other hand I'm a little bit allergic on POP3/IMAP clients. I find they have technical problems more often and having a paid support to solve them can get costly. Webmail interface is so-so. Decision depends also on mail volume and how often and how are the costumers using mail.
There are some free mail providers for custom domains (zoho,Yandex,...) but I'm not familiar with them.
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I would make a list of features you needs then use the trial to test.
Some point that is important: the interface / userfriendly, backup, support and security.
I always check reviews, I usually only use wellknown solutions.
Do this for each solutions and then after that will be easy to decide.