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  • 01-02-2019 7:11pm
    #1
    ChoKuRay
    Registered Users Posts: 116 ✭✭


    What is the advantage to having G Suite. I pay €15 per month and not sure what it’s for. My web designer set it up when I got a new web site designed


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  • #2
    advertsfox
    Registered Users Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭advertsfox


    ChoKuRay wrote: »
    What is the advantage to having G Suite. I pay €15 per month and not sure what it’s for. My web designer set it up when I got a new web site designed
    Likely for email hosting, I use it myself and it's excellent. You can tell my going to https://ail.google.com and logging in with your new domain email address / password.


  • #3
    PropJoe10
    Registered Users Posts: 5,245 ✭✭✭PropJoe10


    The main advantage of G Suite is that you get to add email addresses ending in your domain name - i.e. user@mydomain.com, rather than user@gmail.com. Email addresses ending in your domain name are generally considered to be more professional looking.

    Aside from that, it's quite a similar service to regular GMail.


  • #4
    Scotty #
    Registered Users Posts: 3,767 ✭✭✭Scotty #


    This is something I've wondered too and could never really find a good answer. I already pay for Google Drive (100GB) so would there be any advantage to signing up to G Suite?
    PropJoe10 wrote: »
    The main advantage of G Suite is that you get to add email addresses ending in your domain name
    You can do that with Gmail for free already.


  • #5
    Graham
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 17,642 Mod ✭✭✭✭Graham


    Scotty # wrote: »
    You can do that with Gmail for free already.

    I thought they'd stopped the custom domains for free apart from legacy accounts.

    IIRC gmail with a custom domain is something like €6/month per inbox.


  • #6
    ChoKuRay
    Registered Users Posts: 116 ✭✭ChoKuRay


    PropJoe10 wrote: »
    The main advantage of G Suite is that you get to add email addresses ending in your domain name - i.e. user@mydomain.com, rather than user@gmail.com. Email addresses ending in your domain name are generally considered to be more professional looking.

    Aside from that, it's quite a similar service to regular GMail.

    Ah ok so I am paying monthly just to have info@...... and also the two separate email accounts with our name on it. Hmm....Its a lot really for just that facility. I wonder if there is another option?


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  • #7
    Trojan
    Registered Users Posts: 16,402 ✭✭✭✭Trojan


    GSuite comes into its own when you have multiple user accounts and want cloud email with centralised administration. If you're solo and will never have employees, then Gmail might be sufficient as a workaround.


    Google GSuite from $5/user/month
    It's "Gmail, but with your own domain name". You can use the Gmail smartphone apps, etc. It's brilliant, it's fast, always up, and if you want rid of technical issues with email, this is my #1 recommendation.

    If you want some other options:

    Microsoft Office/Outlook/Exchange Online (I'm not sure the correct name for this, I think they've changed it a few times) from $5/user/month
    Good if you use Word/Excel/etc as licence is included in the premium plan

    ZohoMail Free (5 accounts, 5GB per user) or $3/user/month for 30GB per user
    I haven't used it but heard very good things about it and free is good.

    Rackspace Email Hosting $2/user/month
    Basic but very low-cost, again I haven't used it but heard good things about it

    You can read more about cloud email and options here: https://zapier.com/blog/best-email-hosting-services/

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  • #8
    ChoKuRay
    Registered Users Posts: 116 ✭✭ChoKuRay


    Resurrecting this post as I never did anything about changing the website and removing gsuite.
    Now I really want rid of it. My websites WordPress and I am not
    Sure how
    To take it off the website and pop in a regular gmail address. My hosting is with black night. Is this something they can help me with. TIA


  • #9
    M.T.D
    Registered Users Posts: 396 ✭✭M.T.D


    You should not need to lose your email addresses.
    Create the email accounts on blacknight and access them there or forward them to a gmail address and access them via gmail
    You can give gmail control of your email and send from your domain name address info@yourdomain.com via the gmail account.
    Or if you usually use a computer you can access emails with thunderbird, outlook or another email client.
    You will need access to the hosting account and possibly the domain name.
    It is not that difficult to do. (well not after some practice).
    If you need a hand give me a call and I can guide you through,


  • #10
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    M.T.D wrote: »
    You should not need to lose your email addresses.
    Create the email accounts on blacknight and access them there or forward them to a gmail address and access them via gmail
    You can give gmail control of your email and send from your domain name address info@yourdomain.com via the gmail account.
    Or if you usually use a computer you can access emails with thunderbird, outlook or another email client.
    You will need access to the hosting account and possibly the domain name.
    It is not that difficult to do. (well not after some practice).
    If you need a hand give me a call and I can guide you through,

    I have to say that the email service that comes with web hosting is rarely fit for purpose, including the provider you mentioned, who I use for hosting (mostly legacy accounts), but never for email. It got to the point where I was spending hours every week supporting email issues as a web designer, and those issues were not of my making. I called time, and have only offered Gsuite since. If you want me to give you email with your website, for the last 7 years now it's Gsuite, or on your bike. I no longer have any email customer support tickets - literally none.

    Gsuite just works and there's never an issue with delivery or receiving if you set up DKIM, SPF. If mission critical business email isn't worth a fiver a month per email account, it's a bad state of affairs.


  • #11
    Trojan
    Registered Users Posts: 16,402 ✭✭✭✭Trojan


    Deleted User wrote: »
    If you want me to give you email with your website, for the last 7 years now it's Gsuite, or on your bike.

    Same policy. Or I'll point MX anywhere you want if you want to do it some other way, but I'm not supporting it.

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  • #12
    daymobrew
    Registered Users Posts: 6,487 ✭✭✭daymobrew


    I don't find this issue at all with that provider.
    I use free Gmail to pull in and send out emails via that provider.


  • #13
    Johnny_Fontane
    Registered Users Posts: 3,093 ✭✭✭Johnny_Fontane


    We recently left Gsuite to move to Outlook.

    What a f##king nightmare.

    I moved everything across for a 10 person company, all fine. But then I cancel the sub to Gsuite. All hell breaks loose on my personal account.

    I had set up all my devices with my Gsuite/google apps for business account. I lost all my play purchases, google photos access (how is that a gsuite product- but had them backed up) but most importantly I lost my Google Account that all my devices are signed into.

    They said the best thing to do was factory reset the devices but of course after you factory reset it, you are face with 'google verification' which looks for the original account.

    Result? Bricked devices. I have 2 tablets, 2 phones and a TV.

    If anyone can work out how to change the original google account on an android device, please let me know.

    Its amazing, you're a great customer for 7 years and then by pressing the button 'cancel your subscription', you're down €2k. :mad::mad:

    Any ideas?


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