Ask HN: Google workspace price increased to £6/user/month

3 pointsby joshlkvor 2 Jahren3 comments

I used to be on the free plan so I could use my own domain with GMail. Originally when they forced users onto a paid plan they charged £2.30/user/month then it went upto £4.60 and now it’s £6.

I’m reluctant to change to another provider as I have 15 years worth of data with them. Have others switched?

3 comments

ailurooovor 2 Jahren

dude hosting data costs money, why do you think you should get terabytes of data hosting for a tiny price. Obviously they're a stable, good platform, if you've been on them for 15 years. Paying for a good service that you like is like what every other industry does why is email any different..

KomoDvor 2 Jahren

> why do you think you should get terabytes of data hosting for a tiny price

I've got 30GB on my plan, I use 5GB. The only feature I use is Mail and I was perfectly fine paying €6.50 for that, now I'll be paying €8.50, I'm not costing them much but they're making a lot from me.

aunderscoredvor 2 Jahren

The point would be that if anything, storage and hardware costs have come down for large users like Google. So these cost increases are purely profit motivated, rather than due to the cost to company increasing.