Comment on Giving up on selfhosted email / Any sane email setups?

KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• RegalPotoo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’d be super cautious about relying on any company that even offers a “lifetime” plan.

  Offers like that are tools to raise cash - take money now for a service that you will provide people in the future. They tend to get used in one of two situations:

  • We need to raise money for investment in upgrades, so take the equivalent of ~2-3 years subscription from people up front, and count on the investment bringing in enough new customers paying regular rates that you can cover the cost of having the lifetime customers out of revenue
  • We need cash now or we aren’t going to be able to pay salaries, and it won’t matter that we’ve screwed our customers if we are bankrupt

  Even in the best case, it’d be much simpler to raise cash through usual investment mechanisms, so you do have to wonder how viable their business strategy is if they can’t get money that way

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• chrizl@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Do you maybe have a link for the lifetime plan? Because I cant find it.

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  • h3ndrik@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    accounts.mxroute.com/index.php?/news/view/53/life…

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    • chrizl@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ah there is a big lifetime promo link in the homepage, thanks

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      • h3ndrik@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        de rien

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