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Make the move. FastMail is great. I didn't even know there was a fiasco (I knew they changed their pricing structure to make it much simpler, but it doesn't really affect me in the slightest as a normal user). I switched from Google to FastMail a while ago and I haven't had a single regret.

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Seconded - the only hiccup I have seen with FastMail in the last 3 years was a recent DDoS attack [1] (and that was minimal). If you are willing to pay a small monthly fee, I think FastMail is an excellent alternative to Google.

[1] https://blog.fastmail.com/2015/11/11/ddos-attack-may-lead-to...

I remember reading about that, though I don't remember if I even noticed it happening at the time. I just want to highlight something from that page that I think is awesome:

> We do not respond to extortion attempts, and we will not pay these criminals under any circumstances.

> it doesn't really affect me in the slightest as a normal user

What is a "normal user"? Previously, FastMail customers could get a Family plan that supported custom domains for as low as $10/user/year. New customers who require custom domains must now pay at least $50/user/year. A 400% price increase is a fiasco.

I think they now offer one extra domain per user and same space, which I think was not the case earlier (I could be wrong here).

For reference, the $10/year plan came with a paltry 250MB of space and no CardDAV or CalDAV access to contacts/calendars. Nobody in my family would be able to use such a plan. The $20/year plan came with a fairly low 1GB of space, and still no CalDAV. It's possible that maaaybe one member of my family might get away with this plan, but I'm guessing that everyone in my family probably has over 1GB of email. The $40/year plan came with 15GB of email, which would probably be sufficient for my family, though I can't state that with 100% certainty. $10 extra per year is not that big of a deal, especially when you realize it comes with even higher limits (25GB, and 10GB for file storage as opposed to the 5GB that the old $40/year plan offered).

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