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Drive & Storage
Client File Delivery Without a Third File-Sharing Account
Links expire, personal accounts hold company material, and nobody can say who has which file. This covers running delivery from the same account as the mail, the folder structure that survives staff changes, and where a dedicated service still wins.
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Alexey Bulygin
Drive & Storage
The Email Attachment Size Limit, and How to Stop Hitting It
Base64 encoding adds a third to every attachment, so a 25 MB cap rejects a 20 MB file. Since the binding limit sits at the far end, a bigger allowance buys you nothing — this covers what actually works and when to still attach the file.
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Alexey Bulygin
Operations Playbook
A Mailbox Per Project, Not Per Person
Per-seat pricing forces you to organise email by headcount, so history vanishes when staff leave. A mailbox per job, property or client inverts that — this covers the cost arithmetic, why folders don't substitute, and where the pattern fails.
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Alexey Bulygin
Drive & Storage
AI Agent Backup: Keeping a Copy the Agent Can't Delete
An agent with shell access can clear a directory it was asked to tidy, and sync will faithfully propagate the deletion. This covers the push-only pattern, the credential separation that makes it work, and what it honestly doesn't protect against.
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Alexey Bulygin
Drive & Storage
Buying 100TB Cloud Storage Without Talking to Anyone
Google, Dropbox and Box all make you request a quote at this size, because their storage is priced per seat. Ours is a slider and a card payment — this covers what it costs at every tier, who actually buys it, and where object storage beats us outright.
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Alexey Bulygin
Business Email
Free Email Hosting: The Ten-Domain Plan and Where It Stops
Most free email hosting is one address on somebody else's domain. This is ten domains of your own, ten mailboxes each, with IMAP, catch-all and migration included — and one hard limit that decides whether it's any use to you.
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Alexey Bulygin
Providers Compared
Bluehost Puts Two-Factor Authentication on the Paid Tier
Most reasons to look are ordinary — per-user pricing, a renewal step, tiered features. One is not. Two-factor authentication sits on Professional Email Plus, so the cheapest plan is the one where a leaked password is enough.
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Alexey Bulygin
Providers Compared
If Your Practice Needs a BAA, Stay With Hushmail
Hushmail sells HIPAA-compliant email with a signed Business Associate Agreement included. If your practice needs a BAA, stay — we do not sign one, so choosing on cost here would be choosing a compliance problem.
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Alexey Bulygin
Providers Compared
HostGator Sells Titan Under Its Own Name
HostGator does not make an email product either — it resells Titan, the same platform GoDaddy sells under its own name. That is the third reseller in this series, and it means the limits are set by a company you are not buying from.
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Alexey Bulygin
Providers Compared
The Squarespace Free Year Covers One Person
Squarespace gives a year of Google Workspace Starter to eligible website customers, then it renews at Google standard rates. Two details do the work: the offer covers one user per website, and the product was never theirs.
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Alexey Bulygin
Providers Compared
DuckDuckGo Email Protection Was Never Meant to Be Your Mailbox
Email Protection is free, strips trackers out of your mail and forwards to an inbox you already have. What it is not is a mailbox: nothing is stored, addresses end in duck.com, and there is no custom domain.
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Alexey Bulygin
Providers Compared
Runbox Alternative: Closer to Our Model Than Most
Runbox does not price per seat. It prices an account — storage and a domain count together — with unlimited aliases on every plan. That is the same shape we sell, which makes this a comparison of rungs rather than of models.
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Alexey Bulygin