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I started using fastmail for my business domain, it's going pretty good so far.

I'm in the process of switching over to fastmail. I'm pretty happy with it so far.

How is their spam filtering. For me gmail really does an outstanding job in that regard and it's hard to beat them.

Unfortunately, Fastmail is very expensive.

Expensive? It's cheaper than G-Suite...

$50 per year for what is arguably one of the most important services/tools you use? That's not very expensive to me.

$3/month is quite reasonable

Unfortunately it costs money to hire people and run servers, and we have to pay for it somehow! Over 1/3 of our staff are first line customer support, and you get through to the engineers actually building and running the product quite quickly if you find an issue that the support team can't help you with directly.

The alternative is trying to monitise the userbase some other way, and we're not interested in that game. We have no advertising, no data sales, and no ethical conundrums or regrets about that choice!

Cheers.

$30/year is expensive?