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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
Providers Compared
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
Providers Compared
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
Providers Compared
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
Providers Compared
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