Google’s Gsuite is no longer free here are the best alternatives – The Next Web

Google has done it again. After killing free unlimited storage onGoogle Photos last year,it has announced that GSuite will become a paid-only feature.

As9to5Google reported, all free GSuite users will be automatically upgraded to a premium plan from May 1. If the company doesnt have your payment details, you need to update your account by July 1 or face a shutdown. You can learn more about this on this support page.

Gsuites free offering was godsend for bloggers or small-time website owners who could just own a domain name, and use email (and other services) for no cost.

Now that dream is ending, what are your options? Well, weve rounded them up for you.

The Seattle-based tech giant can offer you a slightly cheaper solution at $5 a month. This will get you access to a 50GB inbox with an option to use your own domain name for it. Plus, youll get web and mobile versions of Office apps, and 1TB OneDrive storage.

If youre looking for something free, Zohos email service is the closest you can get. It offers email hosting for a single domain for no cost, but comes with 5GB/user and 25MB attachment limits.

This US-based company offers email hosting for custom domains for a starting price of $2.99 per month. However, for $3.99 per month, you can get 30GB of storage and ActiveSync across all the apps.

You can check out the plans here.

Unsurprisingly, people are mad. But its probably not for the reason you think. The issue thats cropping up most isnt about cost, rather the fact Google is providing no way to migrate GSuite users to a personal Gmail account. Here are a selection of tweets about the issue:

If had my primary emails life hanging by a thread, Id react in the same way.

Hopefully, Google listens to users and bashes out a solution before July 1. But given its track record, I am not optimistic.

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