For me its going from $0 to $15 a month using Proton which feels way to high. Im cutting proton and switching to Proton free tier for email and Backblaze for storage. Getting a little $100 pc to put in my draw to handle hosting all the stuff i need. My budget is around $10 a month to cover all the tech NEEDS. I think its doable but I will need to pay with my time to learn about/setup a foss stack. I'll also need to put some money aside to drop a donation to each project in the stack yearly.

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ahofmann 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If Proton is too expensive, you can use zoho. I switched from Google and I'm missing nothing.

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itake 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I moved from Zoho to Gmail, b/c of their pricing. Google's basic plan is $7/mo [0], whereas the lowest cost plan with zoho is $25/mo [1].

Zoho's free plan stopped offering custom domains and/or limits imap access.

[0] - https://workspace.google.com/lp/business/ [1] - https://www.zoho.com/us/billing/pricing/

	▲	zxjinn 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The zoho link you provided is for the billing product, not the email product. I use zoho with three low usage domains and pay $1 a month. https://www.zoho.com/mail/zohomail-pricing.html

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gandalfgreybeer 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Proton’s $4 a month is where I ended up landing a few years ago and it’s cheaper with the 2-year lock in they give every now and then. Sharing just in case it’s buried under unlimited. Although our usage may vary in case there are things in unlimited you need.

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omnimus 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Infomaniak is cheaper and in my experience a lot better swiss provider.

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cinntaile 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I don't think a $10 budget will suffice.

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AuthAuth 6 hours ago | parent [-]

My tech needs arent huge. Email+email alias service, cloud storage for PC backups and syncing data across devices, VPN, server to host internet thangs, domain, mobile data. Yeah now that im laying it out $10 is not going to be enough but i'll try my best to work within the constraints and see what I can do. I'll probably do a need budget for $10 and a wants budget of $20.

	▲	subscribed 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You really don't want to host email yourself. Major PITA, time sink and constant possibility of your emails being just silently discarded after being accepted at the big providers.