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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
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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
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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
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Hover Sells a Terabyte for $40, and It Belongs to One Mailbox
Forty dollars a year for a terabyte is genuinely unmatched here, and their $5 forwarding solves a problem people routinely overpay for. The word doing the work is a — the terabyte belongs to one mailbox.
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Alexey Bulygin
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Mailfence Gives Away Encryption and Charges for the Domain
Mailfence gives away the part most providers charge for — encryption and digital signing on every plan including the free one. What it charges for is the custom domain, which is the thing that makes an address a business address.
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Alexey Bulygin
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DreamHost Charges a Fair Price, Once Per Mailbox
DreamHost sells standalone email at $1.67 a mailbox with 25 GB each, full IMAP and no ads, and you do not have to buy web hosting to get it. That is better than most of this bracket, so the argument is about the shape of the meter rather than the rate.
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Alexey Bulygin
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Stalwart Is the Best-Designed Mail Server You Still Have to Run
Stalwart is the most modern thing in the self-hosted category: one integrated server for mail, calendars, contacts and files, with JMAP alongside every older protocol. Which is exactly why the argument here is not about the software.
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Alexey Bulygin
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SimpleLogin Needs a Mailbox Behind It
SimpleLogin creates aliases and forwards what arrives to a mailbox you hold elsewhere. That is the product, not a shortcoming — but it means the bill is never your only mail bill, and the comparison is between two different layers.
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Alexey Bulygin
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StartMail Alternative: Private Email Priced Per Person
StartMail is built for one person at a time, and that shape holds however many you add. They do two things the privacy tier usually gets wrong — real IMAP and unlimited aliases — so this is not a takedown.
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Alexey Bulygin
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Infomaniak Email Alternative: Unlimited Storage, Rationed Addresses
Everyone else meters gigabytes. Infomaniak does not, on any paid tier, from CHF 1.76 a user. What they ration instead is addresses — two per user on the entry plan — and that is where the comparison actually happens.
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Alexey Bulygin
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Wix Does Not Make an Email Product
Wix does not make an email product — it resells Google Workspace, billed per user through your Wix account. That settles most of the comparison, because the mailbox, the limits and the list price are all Google.
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Alexey Bulygin
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You Cannot Buy SiteGround Email on Its Own
SiteGround does not sell email hosting. It sells web hosting, and email comes with it. That is fine until the website moves and you are still paying $215.88 a year for hosting whose only remaining job is holding mailboxes.
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Alexey Bulygin